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POPSA Children’s Treasury Of Poverty Iconography The Comics Curmudgeon is Josh Fruhlinger, whose daily blog at http://joshreads.com/ offers snarly commentary from Josh and his readers on the comic strips you love to hate. He also comments on editorial and political cartoons at Wonkette, the DC Gossip.
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POPSRemembering Charlie Brown Entertaining and humourous article that pays homage to Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown. My favorite :) Like Groening, I too used to spend hours drawing Peanuts cartoons because they "looked" easy. I loved Snoopy! I wanted a beagle before I knew that they were crazy dogs. I owned a Snoopy snowcone machine - which they re-released and I saw at Urban Outfitters. I had thing for Schroeder. Thanks a million Charles Schulz!
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POPSThe Dr. Seuss Many Didn't Know Dr. Seuss worked as an editorial cartoonist for the paper from 1941 to 1943, drawing cartoons that lambasted isolationism, racism, anti-Semitism, Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese, and the conservative forces in American politics.
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POPSBanksta's Paradise Amazing how the presidency of George W. Bush has turned so many webcomics into Political Cartoons
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POPSDid Obama Steal His 'Lip Stick on a Pig' Speech from a Political Cartoon? You can see for yourself that the entire segment before his "pig" quip matches the Toles cartoon exactly. The folks at FreeRepublic have found an interesting... uh, shall we say coincidence... concerning Barack Obama's widely panned September 9 comments made at a rally in Virginia where he seemed to be saying that Governor Palin was a "pig" by referencing the "lipstick" quote from her acceptance speech at the GOP convention. So, now we have a few points to ponder. Will the Obama campaign admit that this whole bit was lifted from Tom Toles? And are we to understand that the Obama campaign is now being programmed by cartoons? See ya in the funny papers, Barack. Be sure and Visit my Home blog Publius' Forum. It's what's happening NOW!
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POPSThe Girls 'Sexualised' At Age Of Five Researcher Dr Eileen Zurbriggen said that girls as young at four are at risk. "The consequences of the sexualisation of girls in media today are very real and are likely to be a negative influence on girls' healthy development," she said. "As a society, we need to replace all these sexualised images with ones showing girls in positive settings. "The goal should be to deliver messages to all adolescents - boy and girls - that lead to healthy sexual development." Michele Elliot, of child protection charity Kidscape, said: "Bratz dolls are little sexualised creatures which give the wrong message to kids. "Let them be kids. We have got children of 12, 13 and 14 who are ashamed that they haven't had sex yet. They think sex is the be all and end all." A spokesman for Bratz said that children see the dolls as being pretty rather than sexy.
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POPSAre There Any Missing Colours? Huangjiaoping street in Chongqing, China Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts has perpetrated a titanic group effort, involving more than 300 artists (mostly students), covering more than kilometer of apartment blocks with colorful cartoons.
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POPSHands Off Mohammed!!! Fear seems to have censored the publishing of a book about Mohammed. As the author of the piece points out: "It is condescending to treat Muslims like excitable children who cannot cope with the probing, mocking treatment we hand out to Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. It is perfectly consistent to protect Muslims from bigotry while challenging the bigotries and absurdities within their holy texts." Doesn't seem like too much to ask.