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Toon TalkBy Clay Jones
Feb. 9, 2010 12:29 pm
I hate weather cartoons. Now I've drawn two in a row. But I really don't mind doing that today as I always try to cover the most talked about issue. I think everyone's still talking about snow. We're all sick of this crap. The good news is I don't stink anymore. I'm not talking about my cartoons, I'm talking about me. I was finally able to shower last night as our electricity was restored. Now all I want is for everyone else without power to have theirs restored as well. Yes, my heart is bleeding for you because I know how much it sucks....but I just won't hug you because you gotta be ripe by this point. I ran out of clean socks Friday (all my friends have heard "the great sock shortage of 2010" story). Last night after taking off my nasty four day worn socks, even the Beagle didn't want any part of them. My friend Kelsey told me I should burn them. I think I'll go leave them with Kelsey as a gift so she can burn them herself. Speaking of stinky socks, when I was a teenager I would purposely wear socks for a week just so I could put them inside my little brother's pillow case. He'd complain for a week how my feet were so stinky that he could smell them in his sleep. I was an evil brother. Here's the rough.
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Feb. 8, 2010 1:22 pm
I think I am gonna lose my sanity if I don't get my electricy back on. We lost it around 4 am Saturday and it came back on around 9 am. Around 1:30 PM it went off and hasn't been seen since. Though everyone around us has lights, TV and HEAT!!! Thank God I have a Beagle to keep me warm. Saturday I was getting cabin fever. Mr. Snow Plow came down the street and I thought this is great...until he buried my car in deeper than it was. I got out there around 8 PM and dug my car out. That was a lot of snow. Around the corner someone was trying to dig out a vehicle. I went over to help and noticed it was a snow plow that was stuck. I offered to help but one of the guys was rude and barked at me that the only way I could help them was if I had a snow plow. I told him if I did I wouldn't trust him with it as he already got one stuck. Then I told him I didn't know what his problem was since I was able to get my Ford Focus out. I continue to make friends everywhere I go. Other than the electricity it was a good weekend. I got my car out and I was able to help someone else get her car out. I got to hang out with some good friends. Me and my dog are closer. And the biggest and best of the weekend, the Saints won the freaking Super Bowl! Here's the rough. I did some googling for the prices here. Someone in the office told me he bought rock salt at 2.99 for ten pounds, so I went with that.
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Feb. 5, 2010 11:16 am
Coming in first with 224 votes in our weekly challenge is Thomas Garber of Spotsylvania. Thomas wins the original cartoon along with having it published in Saturday's Free Lance-Star on page two. Coming in second with 185 votes is Judy Long of Westmoreland who submitted "I knew we should have offered them more than small peanuts". Coming in third with 165 votes is Dick Jackson of Spotsylvania who submitted "No one told us the elephant in the room was so big!". Coming in fourth with 64 votes is Alice Correll of Lexington, VA who submited "They gotta work on their carbon footprint!". I really like we had finalist from somewhere other than Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania or Stafford. Keep 'em coming folks. Caption contest #59 is still up and you have a little time left to enter. Next week we'll post it on the weekly challenge for readers to vote between four finalists. Next Saturday we'll post the winner. This Wednesday we'll start #60. Yes, it's confusing. Just keep entering and voting and we'll take care of the rest of the details.
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Tags: caption contest
Feb. 5, 2010 9:50 am
This issue has all the partisans upset. The pro-life wackos are all happy and defensive while the pro-choice nuts are in a state of rage. The paper had an editorial saying it's freedom of speech, ignoring that pro-choice and other political commercials have been refused for the Super Bowl in years past. What's my point of view? Shut up and let me watch the Super Bowl. This is the first time my team has every gone to the Super Bowl thus, making it THE MOST IMPORTANT SUPERBOWL EVER. Shut up with your politics and just root for the Saints like God wants you to. Also, I know three Saints fans in this region. A lot of people like the Saints and that's cool...but I'm only aware of three besides myself who have suffered their entire life rooting for this team. If you're not Phillip, Craig or Cori, don't say "Who Dat?" to me. By the way, Craig just told me he HATES "who dat" coming from anybody....so feel free to give Craig a "who dat" and tell him it's from Clay. Also, I have family in Indiana. My father, stepmom, little brother, sister in law and nieces and nephews are all up there rooting for the Colts. My little sister, who lives here, is a Colts fan. They all say they want the Colts to win but they'll be happy for the Saints if they win. Well, thanks for nothing, family. I love ya, but if the Saints lose (not likely) then I'm not gonna be "aw shucks I'm happy for the Colts though". No, screw that. Colts and their fans can go suck a lemon. By the way, how is it I have family in Indiana? My stepmom is from there and she met my father in Los Angeles. She nagged him for twenty years until he moved all of them to Indiana. I'm from Louisiana as God intended. Oh and Craig, who dat? Here's the rough. Oh yeah..in the rough I have "taste great" which is wrong. It's "great taste, less filling". Thanks to one of copy editors, Kurt Rabin, for catching that.
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Feb. 4, 2010 9:35 am
I wasn't sure about this one but now I think I really like it. I wanted to do something on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" but knew I wouldn't be allowed to draw in favor of dropping the policy. I think I snuck one in. Here's the rough.
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Feb. 3, 2010 1:03 pm
I had this idea a couple days ago and I liked it too much. Bush's baby could have gone with any label. "War", "Debt", etc. More Groundhogs I didn't think we'd see anymore Groundhog Day cartoons until next year because, well, because Groundhogs Day is over. I totally underestimated the mediocrity of our nation's editorial cartoonists. Since I posted a slew of them yesterday, it wouldn't be fair not to include these guys. Fellow Virginian John R. Rose groundhog saw the deficit (and this list wouldn't be complete without an obvious cartoon by Mr. Rose). Two time Pulitzer winner Mike Luckovich, the king of reprints, even got in on the act with his groundhog seeing John Edwards revelations. Jeff Koterba's groundhog needs security. OK, not a groundhog cartoon but why is Richard Bartholomew commemorating Calvin and Hobbes? Did I miss something other than Bill Watterson giving a rare interview this week? I love Calvin and Hobbes too but I didn't realize it was a news subject.
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Feb. 2, 2010 6:17 pm
This is caption contest #59. Caption Contest #58's winner will be published this Saturday on page two of The Free Lance-Star. You can go to our weekly challenge right now and vote on who you think should win 58. To enter #59 use our ultra handy online entry form. Your deadline is Monday at NOON. Tuesday through Thursday readers will vote at our weekly challenge. Next Saturday (the one after this one), we'll publish the winners. Next Wednesday (before we reveal the winners of this contest) we'll start a new contest.
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Tags: caption contest
Feb. 2, 2010 1:50 pm
I think it's really cool Miss America is from Fredericksburg. I was gonna put in a lot of witty stuff to say in your speech if you know Rush Limbaugh is a judge, but I don't want to distract from how cool it is that we're home to Miss America. Here's the rough. Groundhog Toons I've never been that guilty of milking groundhog day for a cliche. Not because my ideals and morals are higher than most cartoonists, it's because I usually didn't notice it was groundhog day until it's groundhog day. That's one of those non-holidays that sneaks up on me. Starting last night some cartoonists were tweeting links to their brilliant groundhog day cartoons. Basically there's just one idea for groundhog day and it's used multiple times a year...again and again. It's almost as bad as a Santa Lap cartoon. I'm gonna link the ones I've discovered so check them out. First one is by sports cartoonist Drew Litton. Bud Selig sees his shadow and predicts six more months of something. Pittsburgh's Randy Bish picks on Peta. As if one groundhogs cartoon isn't enough for Pittsburgh's readers, Rob Rogers. Milt Priggee's gives them another. groundhog see's recession and becomes lunch. Mark Streeter's is....actually I'm not sure what's going on here because I don't actually read his cartoons. I'm afraid it'll infect my own ideas if I read 'em and I'll draw crappy cartoons for a month. Joe Heller's groundhog was ran over. Ron Roger's groundhog see's unemployment. Deb Milbrath's ground hog is the victim of partisanship. John Cole's is local (I think) so he gets points for not using the cliche the same as everyone else. Bill Schorr's actually predicts winter. Dave Granlund's is bald. If there's anymore out there, I don't wanna see them.
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Feb. 1, 2010 11:42 am
I'm not saying Supervisors don't earn their money. I understand several of them save the county money by not using their insurance benefits (which is because they have it from elsewhere so maybe hold off on that medal). But when you're in the position to decide on salary cuts, job losses, destruction of lives and incomes, don't go off about how you deserve your salary. It sounds as if county employees don't deserve theirs. I understand a salary cut for the Supervisors won't affect the budget that much. But maybe if you feel a little pain while you're inflicting it upon others, they'll know that you really do...feel their pain.
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Jan. 29, 2010 10:04 am
And here's the toon that was approved for today's paper. After my first attempt was killed I tried to avoid doing something on the response altogether but it was insisted I do something on it. So I used more humor to wiggle around it. It's not that I think McDonnell did a bad job. I think his success is that he didn't screw up. I don't really see why we need to give a parade for someone who merely got by. I also wasn't a fan of the phoniness that accompanied his speech. Are we supposed to be blown away that a room full of his core supporters applauded his every sentence? And what's the deal with Republicans and minorities? Minorities have no room for leadership in the GOP (Michael Steel? HA!) but if there's one Republican within a 50 mile radius who's not a pasty white bald male, then they're gonna sit directly behind the speaker as a stage prop. Here's the rough.
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Jan. 28, 2010 6:36 pm
Here's a toon not running in the newspaper. Editor didn't like it but I did. Usually I just throw away what's killed, but when I really like 'em I go ahead and draw them. Most of the time when one's killed I have no desire to push it any further as I usually don't believe in the idea enough. After drawing the rough for this cartoon I really wanted to approach it from the artistic angle I had going. So here you go. I'll have another on the "response" tomorrow that is for the newspaper. Maybe you'll like it better. Here's the rough.
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Jan. 28, 2010 1:34 pm
I like to stand up for the little people. Especially if the little people are losing jobs, hours, benefits while the people making those decisions are doing their parts by taking furlough days (that's where they take a day here and there without pay, but their huge, enormous salaries are safe). I dedicate this cartoon, not just to those in the Spotsy school system, but to anyone who's lost a job recently (and I know a LOT of you).
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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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