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14:15 - It's the Comic-o-sphere vs. the Blogosphere...
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/
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Here's what the artist of Ozy and Millie has to say in parallel to the above strip, which is part of a series:
I'll be blunt. I'm seriously upset about the election results. Now we have two years of unchecked George W. Bush. I hope you conservatives out there in readerville will be decent enough not to write me, either arguing or gloating; it won't diminish my fears that a lot of things I believe in are going to take serious abuse in the next two years, maybe longer. So I spent today walking around being depressed and drawing political cartoons. I feel a little better. (And no, I didn't draw while walking around. Although my drawing table does have wheels, so I guess it's theoretically possible.
No, I won't gloat. Not now, anyway. I might, however, two years from now.
This seems to be a popular sentiment among comic artists these days, in any case. Ah well-- at least Boondocks has shut up a bit about the Bushistas forging poll results so as to look like there is more than zero popular support for a war to obtain Iraqi oil and spread some good ol' White Man's Burden.
Doonesbury, predictably, has been forecasting doom just like Simpson. But then, Trudeau is attacking blogs while he's at it, so while I still think there's humor there, there's a clear train-wreck of a decline in realistic focus. Such a shame.
If all the comics are left-leaning, and all the blogs are right-leaning, and the comics run their own commentary pages, does that mean we have to make up our own comedy?
Jeez. Even Red Meat has gotten obliquely political. That's a first.
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