Bucking contemporary trends, the Chattanooga Pulse is actually adding a comics page. They kicked it off with an interview with me.

Saw this Nam June Paik installation* at the local Target this morning.

*Not really a Nam June Paik installation.

Have been making selections for an Italian compilation of This Modern World, to be published sometime in the spring. Now I just need to find a new American publisher. (Any interested editors should feel free to contact me!)

… adding: the strip runs in 80 papers, as well as on the most widely-read liberal political site on the internet; I’ve got 24K followers on Twitter. Surely there must be a publisher out there somewhere who is intrigued by numbers such as these?

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Jan. 25, 2012
Bedbug Man

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You may have read about the FBI investigation and arrests of four East Haven, Ct. police officers, not to mention the mayor’s subsequent tone-deaf response. This isn’t the first time the East Haven cops have made the news for racial profiling — I did a couple of cartoons about an earlier incident in which a young man lost his life, back in 1997. (Click to enlarge.)

(A recent update on the case here.)

Also: send a taco to the mayor of East Haven.

Bors:

I’m real glad Reddit saved the internet. Now, any chance their users can learn how to credit creators and sources of copyrighted material?

I would have assumed that the rich get certain amenities in hospitals — larger, private rooms, more attentive doctors, etc. But this would never have occurred to me:

The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes. The bathroom gleamed with polished marble. Huge windows displayed panoramic East River views. And in the hush of her $2,400 suite, a man in a black vest and tie proffered an elaborate menu and told her, “I’ll be your butler.”

The punchline, buried deep in the article, comes after an anecdote about the Saudi King taking up an entire floor at another hospital:

The hospital said in a statement: “NewYork-Presbyterian is dedicated to providing a single standard of high quality care to all of our patients.”

But never mind the absurd disparity between first class hospital accomodations and what the rest of us are likely to experience back in steerage. Here’s the bit that’s likely to go viral in the wingnut zombie-lie media:

But even the rainmakers — doctors who bring in such patients — can sometimes resent the tilt toward luxury.

“The one misgiving is patients with Medicare, which pays physicians almost nothing,” said Dr. Brian Katz, 59, a laparoscopic surgeon in scrubs who took a break in the same library later. “Yet those patients will come up here and pay to enjoy five-star comfort.”

The doctor is complaining that rich patients on Medicare can pay for the accomodations while he himself makes no profit. But watch for that to be distorted by Sean Hannity et al. into a story about welfare patients receiving luxury treatment on your tax dollars.

And speaking of the gilded age, here’s a fascinating little article about our plutocrat overlords, and how they behave when they think no one is watching.

In case you haven’t heard, he’s about to have one.

–Update: did I say “bad day”? Ha ha. Turns out the Republican base has no problem with a hypocritical, moralizing serial adulterer. Worth keeping in mind the next time someone starts yammering on about “family values.”

Still seems like an appropriate moment to repost this cartoon from 1995. Might even be time for a return appearance from Monsieur Newt.

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Jan. 19, 2012
The Romdroids

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From last week. Been busy.

Jan. 11, 2012
Greetings Earth Penguin

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