The Rocky Mountain News ends today, and Candorville’s one of dozens of cartoons that’ll disappear tomorrow. But Candorville’s only a click away! Continue to follow it right here, at Candorville.com. If you subscribe to Candorville’s RSS feed, you’ll get a link to the day’s comic in your inbox every day.
Chris Matthews has been increasingly willing to call Republican politicians out on their childish attempt to rename the opposition party. I take credit for this. I didn’t hear a single Media personality even mention this pathetic trend until my 2007 cartoon on the topic ran in the Washington Post (& everywhere else). Oh, and some other obscure comic called “Doonesbury” (you’ve probably never heard of it) may have also run a similar cartoon on the very same day as mine.
Candorville’s on the chopping block in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, so if you live in or around St. Louis or you don’t but you still somehow read the paper, they want to hear from you. Just go to their website, scroll down to the Candorville strip, and choose “Keep it” on the pulldown menu next to the strip. You can also comment in their comments section below, if you’d like.
It’s far easier to KEEP a comic strip in the paper than it is to get it back in after they’ve cut it, so go to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch comics poll now and make yourself heard!
Three minutes and 54 seconds of your life that you won’t want back:
Every time I follow a link from the Drudge Report to an article that allows comments, I inevitably find some indignant Drudge poster writing “if I criticize Obama, I’m a racist?!” Having been accused of racism myself for odd reasons (drawing a cartoon condemning racism makes you racist in some people’s eyes), I don’t automatically dismiss the sentiment. But then those posters usually go on to call Obama “Kenya’s favorite son,” or to say something else that demonstrates why their Obama criticism is suspect.
I bet this cartoonist indignantly says “if I criticize Obama, I’m racist?!” all the time.
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David Cohen
Asheville Citizen-Times Feb 9, 2009 |
The mailing material for the posters arrived yesterday, and today I sent out the first batch (to people who ordered the poster on 1/18 and 1/19. I’ll send out the next batch tomorrow, and I’m hoping to have it all shipped by Friday. If you’ve already ordered a poster, you should have it in 5-10 business days.
Almost all the posters have now been sold. There are only 19 left from this print run, and once they’re gone, any new orders will have to wait for a second print run (so the turnaround time will be about three weeks). So, if you haven’t yet ordered and you’d like to get the poster sooner rather than later, order today!
Shipping included |
Shipping included |
As San Francisco Chronicle readers know, Candorville’s been running in the Sunday paper ever since Opus went to the great children’s book in the sky. The Chronicle ran a survey at the time asking which strip readers wanted as a replacement on Sundays. Candorville won, and the Chronicle mentioned they’d eventually add the weekday version as well. I’m happy to say “eventually” is today.
This is an especially cool addition for me. I lived in the Bay Area for 13 years, and the Chronicle and I have a little history. While I was studying political science at Berkeley, I freelanced editorial cartoons to the Chronicle (as well as the Oakland Tribune, LA Times, & other papers). When their editorial cartoonist took a year-long sabbatical in (I think it was) 2005, the Chronicle’s editorial page filled his space with Candorville strips. Years earlier, the Chronicle’s business section ran Rudy Park Sunday strips. I spent my twenties in the Bay Area. It’s where everything changed for me. I went there a teenager who liked to draw and I left there a 32 year-old teenager who gets paid to draw. Most importantly, I met my wife there; and my best friends, acquaintances, and dentist all live there.
Of course, all this can come crashing down the next time they run a comics page survey and the people I inevitably piss off each send in a dozen letters demanding my head — or it can come crashing down when the newspaper industry evaporates in 2012 (which, obviously, is why the Aztecs ended their calendar in 2012). But for now, this is a great day.
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