The lost toon
This is a toon I did at the Sioux Falls Cartoonists picnic last summer, It is GW and McCain talking about the internets. (H/T – Jackilope)
This is a toon I did at the Sioux Falls Cartoonists picnic last summer, It is GW and McCain talking about the internets. (H/T – Jackilope)
Like I have said on several occasions, I thank the Lorde Jezus I don’t have kids. One more reason;
A graphic novel about middle-school life has been taken off the shelves at Sioux Falls schools after a parent complained about cartoons containing foul language, sexual references and teen smoking.
Editor Ariel Schrag’s “Stuck in the Middle: Seventeen Comics from an Unpleasant Age†will be available only to teachers for checkout.
Here is the full Gargoyle story. This comment made me laugh;
She said the message a student draws from a cartoon might be a bad one.
Yes, those evil cartoonists and editorial satirists how dare they use humor to drive a point home. But Shrag fights back;
Schrag found that logic puzzling. The positive resolution to a cartoon is how the reader relates the story to his own experiences, she said. “Not all stories have a happy ending.”
Really? I thought everything was sunshine and butterflies in Sioux Falls?
“I think a prose book that would have similar content would go unnoticed,” Schrag said. “It’s a lot easier I think to sort of demonize graphic novels. It kind of comes down to laziness.”
And ignorance.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff at the recent cartoonist convention in Sioux Falls.
Here is a video of him explaining his new book.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alu-OpltD4I&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Here some audio of his band, The Prairie Cats
and a little video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvi4As5mcpI&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube]
I was digging around my old site www.25dp.com today and I found this gem. Sarah is a very talented cartoonist and zine maker, check out her site;