As I said last week, I think this cartoon is shit. I loathe local TV news and its inanity, but that’s no excuse for making something this lame. I managed to get this done in half the time it usually takes me to make a cartoon, and it shows.
If you can forgive me this foray into suckage, join me tomorrow (Saturday, July 8) at Million Year Picnic in Cambridge (map) between 2 and 4. I’ll be signing copies of Attitude 3 with Mark Poutenis, whose Thinking Ape Blues graces the Dig’s comic pages. We’ll also be trying to get you to buy our own crap, which we will also sign.
Next Week: I’m not sure yet, but it’s got to be better than this.
July 7th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
But the lameness is part of the joke, right? This is a cartoon that owns its lameness. Therefore, dignity is maintained.
Honestly, I thought it wasn’t that bad, and I laughed at the Jim Croce bit. But I recognize that my skill at defending my own lameness sometimes extends to defending the lameness of others.
You can go back to spanking yourself now.
July 7th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
You make excellent points. I just hate it when cartoonists/comedians refuse to admit when they dropped a steaming turd in the middle of a room.
Embrace your bombs! It lowers expectations and makes the decent stuff glisten in the sun.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Ehmmmm….well, it’s funnier than today’s “Mallard Fillmore”, at least…
July 8th, 2006 at 11:47 am
I liked it. I was just ranting to my friends and anyone who might be listening about how stupid the local news is and that people need to stop being afraid of whatever sensationalized “danger” is on the news(myspace, bird flu, west nile, escalators, pothole terrorists, etc.) and start realizing that the thing most likely to kill their fat, lazy asses is their OWN LIFESTYLE. If this is a turd, then what am I looking at on the comics page of the Globe? Hollow turdsicles filled with goat urine and vomit? Anyhow, I’m off to eat breakfast!
July 9th, 2006 at 10:25 am
This bears such an uncanny resemblance to our own local news – I think there was actually some kind of pumpkin contest scandal a few years ago. The awfulness of the local news is something of a running joke among my friends (among today’s top stories: “Dog Attacked By Pit Bull”) so I got a few laughs out of it.
July 10th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
CB – “funnier than Mallard Filmore?” Not quite a compliment, but I’ll take it. I’ll also take a fraction of the shitloads of money that Republican mouthpiece Tinsley gets.
Blake – The Perv Patrol was originally a joke about all those “Myspace special reports” that have been making the local TV rounds lately. As an engineer, I am curious how hollow turdsicles filled with goat urine are made. Surely it’s not by hand. I imagine some sort of complicated apparatus that would be shown on some film Mr. McPheely brought to Mr. Rogers’s house.
RJ – Pumpkin scandal? Do you live in the woods? My go-to piece of local TV journalism gone bananas was an exposé in Baltimore about shrinking parking lot spaces. They had a ruler and everything!
July 10th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
Ohio.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:04 am
You poor, poor soul. At least you’re not in Delaware, “The Northeast’s Kansas.”