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Toon TalkBy Clay Jones
Nov. 6, 2009 3:37 am
This is just for my syndicate...oh and the blog. It's not the position of my employer but that's cool. I can still draw it. I'm very much in favor of gay marriage. Actually, I'm anti-all-marriages. But hey if two hetero drunkards can meet in Vegas and wake up the next morning not knowing who they just married...then why can't gay and lesbian couples who've been together for a decade tie the knot? The anti-gay marriage folks talk about the sanctity of marriage. Hey, your marriage is what you make of it. It's not like heterosexuals have done a great job defending the sanctity of marriage. But hey, if I ever do get married again it will be in Vegas and an Elvis impersonator will be conducting the ceremony. Don't hold your breath.
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Nov. 5, 2009 8:58 pm
I had a cartoon on the page. I started working on another one for my syndicate that my editor rejected. Around 7:30 my editor called me and asked me to do a memorial type cartoon on Fort Hood. So I put one toon aside, had the completed one yanked off the page and started working on this. It's not a great cartoon. It's a rush job. I don't mind the art being a rush job as much as I mind the idea being a rush. Sometimes you pull great things out of that...other times, not so much. I think it's OK for a memorial cartoon. I don't like memorial cartoons but I really can't complain about them. I think they're justified. By the way, I was born in Fort Hood. I have my father's military year book from 1966 (kinda looks like a high school year book) that I'll cherish forever. I have pulled a lot of late nights this week in this office. UPDATE: Full clarity here for a mistake in the blog until I corrected it. At first I mentioned "Fort Benning" in the headline knowing full and well it was Fort Hood. C'mon, I was born there. Fort Benning always gets stuck in my head because when I was a teenager living in Georgia I lived very close to that base. Anyway, I was out and called one of our web gurus, Alex Russell, who's always there to help me in a jam. He changed the headline. But since I'm the kind of guy that doesn't mess up once, but twice, I also had "Fort Benning" in the text. So now at 2:23 AM I'm in the office correcting that. Shout out to my best friend Kate Leiss for texting me to alert me about the mistakes (PLURAL). Hopefully, I won't screw anything else up this week.
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Nov. 5, 2009 2:49 pm
The two candidates against the VRE plans in Spotsylvania lost. Probably the only Republicans to lose in Virginia on Tuesday.
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Nov. 3, 2009 10:56 pm
It's been a long day. I went through several ideas before I settled on one I liked...or before I thought of one I liked. This was not in the stack I took to my editor for approval. We decided on one and just before I started drawing I got this idea. I caught my editor just as he was turning out his office lights and locking his door. It was 9:30. By 10:00 it was drawn and turned in for the editorial page. Election nights are always the most fun nights in the newspaper business...and the most stressful. This cartoon is very rough looking but sometimes I really dig the way they turn out. This was the first rough which was quickly rejected. i was told to leave my editor's office immediately. I turned this one in around 2:00 PM. It was gonna be a long day. This is the idea we settled on. I wasn't in love with it and it wasn't great. I also didn't like that it wasn't an opinion, it's all fact. That's no fun. I'm glad I came up with the "paper cuts" idea to overrule this one. This one sucks. It's not accurate. Most people didn't have Obama on their mind while voting. But I was grasping for straws when I came up with this stinker. I liked this one. McDonnell ran as a moderate while he's actually a very strict social conservative. Of course it was killed. Again, grasping at straws. I thought it was kinda funny. This was the first "sweep" idea. Ya know, since Republicans swept all three statewide races. But this rough and idea really, really, really bores me. While I was sitting around trying to come up with an idea, I was itching to draw. So I spent that idea time working on McDonnell's caricature. I'm sure I'll get plenty of practice in over the next four years.
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Nov. 3, 2009 10:17 pm
Yes, we're going to pick on Dan Snyder once again. To enter our caption contest use our ultra handy online entry form. Your deadline is NOON Thursday. Our trusty office judges will pick their top four and we'll post them on the Weekly Challenge this Friday for everyone to vote on their favorite. The winner will receive the original cartoon with their caption inked in by me along with having it printed in next Tuesday's Free Lance-Star on page two.
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Tags: Caption Contest
Nov. 3, 2009 1:52 pm
Things are not looking so good for the Democrats this time around. Let's see, Obama turned Virginia into a purple state. Virginia has had two Democrat governors in a row. The Republicans are basically a party without a message. So how did the Democrats blow this?
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Nov. 2, 2009 12:05 pm
This week's winner is Aaron Tlumack of Fredericksburg who won in a landslide in our weekly challenge receiving 174 votes. Aaron wins the original cartoon along with having it run in tomorrow's Free Lance-Star on page two. Coming in second with 52 votes is Mary Raye Cox of Falmouth who submitted "Left at Balloon Boy; Right at the Space Station; just think of the frequent flyer miles!!". Coming in third with 31 votes is Belinda Fletcher who submitted "Where’s Capt. Sully when you need him?". Coming in fourth with 12 votes is Bill Kail of Bumpass who submitted "Welcome to Wilderness Walmart!". Toon in tomorrow for the next contest.
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Tags: caption contest
Nov. 2, 2009 11:05 am
For the most part, I've avoided Halloween cliches this season. This comes close. I did not draw any trick or treaters, pumpkins, ghosts, witches, goblins, etc. Now if I can get through November without drawing a turkey I'll be somewhat unique in this industry.
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Oct. 30, 2009 12:51 pm
Happy Halloween, everybody.
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Oct. 29, 2009 2:00 pm
Sometimes this job is almost too easy.
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Oct. 28, 2009 1:59 pm
Creigh Deeds is failing to harness even a little of that Obama magic that gave the state to the Dems last year. On another note: This is the first cartoon I've done with a Halloween theme this year...and I think it'll be the only one. But I succeeded in NOT having kids trick or treating which is done by everybody, at least more than once. Two years ago I did a countdown of every Halloween cliche/themed cartoon I could find. It wasn't entirely accurate but it had to have been close. It was a huge number. The winner was going to receive all the Halloween candy I could swipe from the staff Halloween party. You'd think that would make the rest of the nation's editorial cartoonists angry at me, but all I got was letters from them asking for the candy. I seriously plan to do it each Halloween, but that was a lot of work. The only reason I haven't done it again is because it's so much work and I think the only people who enjoyed the feature were other cartoonists. Anyway, I've been picking on Creigh Deeds a LOT lately...but he deserves it. I think the state was set up on a silver platter for him to win and he's blown it. Don't worry. After Bob McDonnell is elected I'll have plenty of chances to beat up on him.
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Oct. 27, 2009 7:24 pm
To enter this week's contest use our ULTRA HANDY ONLINE ENTRY FORM. Your deadline is NOON Thursday. From there we'll send it off to the Weekly Challenge on Friday for readers to pick the best from the top four. Winner gets the original cartoon with their caption inked in by me, along with having it printed in Tuesday's Free Lance-Star on page two.
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Clay Jones is the editorial cartoonist for The Free Lance-Star. In his spare time, he plays in the local rock band Corporate T-Shirt.
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