Toon Talk
By Clay Jones
Kim Jong-Il
July 3, 2009 3:04 am
I always like the weird ones. No, not Michael Jackson or Kim Jong-Il....weird cartoons. It's 3:00 am and I'm going to bed.
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Al Franken, Tim Kaine
July 2, 2009 12:09 pm
Sorry I didn't get around to blogging yesterday. I had to run to the DMV which should tell you why I was thin on time. I didn't want to draw "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me" for a Franken cartoon....not that I didn't go lame with what I used. When I don't put much actual drawing into a cartoon, then you'll see a lot of cross hatching. Al Franken spoke at my cartoonists association's convention once (I think it was in Pittsburgh) and he was a funny guy. He could draw the entire United States, ya know...like the map...state by state. We were impressed. A couple of conservatives from places like Wyoming and Nebraska kinda stormed out of the room in the middle of his talk. Al Franken, at that time, wasn't afraid to talk or play dirty. Here's yesterday's cartoon on Tim Kaine. 
I like drawing Tim Kaine. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that before. I'm really going to miss eyebrows, specifically his left one.
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Caption Contest #33
June 30, 2009 11:38 pm
I'm not going let a small matter of a few celebrities' deaths push this issue to the back of the news. I can't wait to see what you guys and girls submit for this edition. To enter, use our trusty and handy online entry form. I'll find some unsuspecting sap in the newsroom to help me pick four from which readers will pick the winner in our weekly challenge. Confusing? Nah, just enter and we'll do the rest. Winner gets the original art with their caption inked in by me. Cool, huh?
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Madoff
June 30, 2009 12:51 pm
I thought this was a simple idea without a bold statement, but I liked the concept. Only problem is, I don't draw great hands. If I tried to draw realistic hands, I think the cartoon would have looked awful, so I went with simple cartoonish hands. Some days I feel like all I'm drawing is lines.
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Caption Contest #32 Winner
June 29, 2009 1:00 pm
We had 288 votes in this week's weekly challenge to determine our winner for the caption contest. Coming in first with 126 votes is Cathy Silk of Falmouth. Cathy wins the original cartoon with her caption inked in by me, and it will run in Tuesday's Free Lance-Star on page two. Coming in second with 64 votes is Guy Reggio of Butler, Pennsylvania who submitted "I’d walk a mile for a government regulation" Tying in third with 49 votes a piece is Randy Jarrell of Spotsylvania who submitted "Now flavored with hypocrisy!"and William Edens of Orange, Va who submitted "I am 95 percent sure I quit".
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Michael Jackson
June 29, 2009 12:32 pm
Here's the toon we finally got in the paper Sunday. Here's the way it was originally written before I compromised. 
Gwen is standing outside my office telling me she didn't like my Michael Jackson cartoon and I said "cool". I told her I had worse and now she's checking them out. Quote: "I don't know about you". I had to hassle with editors for a while to get a cartoon in. My editor was for me doing something tough on Jackson and thought our main heavyweight editor should be confronted and told the importance of letting us do something strong...so he sent his assistant to talk to him. Thanks, Linda for helping me get this in.
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Jackson Rough
June 26, 2009 2:44 pm
When I first showed this cartoon (minutes ago) to my editor, he laughed so hard the entire editorial staff came into his office and they laughed just as hard if not harder. But there was no way this was going to run. I showed it to an editor downstairs who said "are you serious?". Sorry, I like it! 
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Moral Superiority
June 26, 2009 2:05 pm
I really like this cartoon. I was so into it while drawing it. i sent it to press and left the building and then a news event happens that'll totally blow this story out of the news. 
There's always Democrats messing up too, but they're not usually out there sermonizing about family values while getting their thingies caught in the cookie jar. This douchebag was in Congress during the Clinton impeachment and guess which way he voted. Here's the rough which I tried to emulate as possible for the final version. 
On to other things: Michael Jackson died. I've heard so many analogies and jokes that my head might burst. One that sticks with me is "God must love Mark Sanford to have Farrah and MJ die on the same day to take him off the news". This will also scoot aside Iran and Kim Jong Ill will have to shoot a rocket into downtown Honolulu to get any attention this week. I was twittering yesterday (I'm clay335) and posted 'who'll be the third celebrity to die this week?" and two hours later Michael Jackson was dead. That was weird.
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Social Networking
June 25, 2009 12:49 pm
I like this cartoon. I figured I haven't done enough on Iran, the elections, demonstrations, murders, etc.
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Wegmans
June 24, 2009 11:57 am
I used to live in Batesville, Mississippi which is a great city, but tiny. When I moved there in 1989 they had a Pizza Hut and McDonalds and that was about it (funny we took for granted all the great locally owned restaurants). When a Captain D's moved in the entire little city went nuts and everyone had to go...even though we'd all eaten at Captain D's someplace...the thought of a new fast food place was exotic, temporarily. A month later we all realize we live in Mississippi which has the best catfish in the world so why in the Hell are we going to a fast food place to get it?. Batesville is a lot larger now (I hear they got a strip mall) and I really miss the people there and the barbecue. Wegmans landing in our town is a similar situation for me. But while I scoffed at everyone running to Captain D's, I really wanted to go in there and get some of those fake crab cakes. I was doing the same thing with Wegmans, thinking it's incredibly big but isn't it just another grocery store? I was reading the news story, rolling my eyes, then read they had a sushi bar and thought "I really wanna go check that out". For me, it sounds like we got a bunch of new restaurants in one location. Unfortunately, that location is in Central Park which kinda sucks to go to as the road planning was obviously engineered by a mongoose with a crayola. I do want to check Wegmans out. I haven't bought groceries in months so I'll probably just check out the dining. I will not go on opening day, or opening week. There's way too many crazies out there and I don't want to get in their path when they're strung out on an opening day high. I used to work in a grocery store when I was a kid and the one thing I learned that has stuck with me: an old lady will kill you for a half ripe banana.
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