Tea Party Comics, At Last!
Just when you thought everybody who wanted to was already publishing comic books, here comes The Tea Party!
The first three issues of Tea Party Comix have hit the Internets, and if you enjoy subtle humor, well, you’ll be disappointed. However, if you’re looking for blatantly racist comics with a dash of anti-Jewish sentiment, this is the place for you.
Three 40-page collections of parodies of classic American comic book covers
have been published – with the original trademarks intact, such as, you know,
Superboy, Batman, and Thor.
Guys, you might wanna take on Obama and the commies, but
if you’re actually going to take on the lawyers at Disney and Warner Bros, then I actually feel sorry for you.
Each issue depicts a vision of President Obama that make minstrel show advertising look like handbills for the Black Panther Party. He’s doing all those things that keeps the paranoid right up at night: death panels, illegal immigrants taking over the nation, even Obama choking the life out of the “poor little neo-con,” Richie Rich.
That last one’s my favorite.
Political satire is hard to define and even harder to produce, and it has to maintain the ambiance of reality to work. Not only is this crap lacking in perspective, it’s also lacking a sense of humor. Normally
I’d give you the links so you can see for yourself, but for this one, forget
it. Go Google.
Some tea baggers have disavowed these books, and at least a few have declared them plants from the left-wing commies.
Now that’s funny.
Well, that went by quickly.
For those who think the cartoons in the pages of Playboy or Hustler are racy, or the cartoon cavalcade of Seth MacFarlane pushes the boundaries of taste… sit down, and get something cold to drink. Last week, the world lost John Callahan, taboo cartoonist extraordinaire. Callahan, a quadriplegic since a car accident at 21, turned to cartooning to share his worldview. By clasping a pen between his two hands (akin to a “praying” pose, if you will) John spent his years sharing his darkly funny worldview with the public at large.
While his cartoons were shown in local Portland papers, where John was considered an often seen man-about-town, he was a varied artist at heart. He wrote his own “quasi-memoir”, Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up? His songwriting skills led him to record an album in 2006, Purple Winos In the Rain. In addition to this, Callahan’s cartoons became the basis for a pair of animated series, Nickelodeon’s Pelswic, and the Canadian-Australian Quads. Quads retains Callahan’s more darkly twinged humor.
DC Character Hat
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We started hearing about director Zack Snyder working on adapting Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole as his first foray into animation as his work on The Watchmen was concluding. 
Last October, a horn player and otaku friend recommended a
collection from Funimation (4 disks, extras like commentaries from the
Movie technology needed to catch up to the imagination of author Roald Dahl. By the time that occurred in the 1980s Dahl was in his final years and barely got to enjoy proper adaptations of his works. His imaginative fiction was incredibly vivid and picturesque while also having a dark undercurrent, an edge that set them apart from other children’s literature.
