An article in CJR about the declining fortunes of political cartooning. Update: There’s apparently a second piece in the works in which our efforts at Daily Kos to counter the trend will be discussed.

We added some new cartoonists to the Comics section at Daily Kos last week — Keith Knight, Brian McFadden, and Ruben Bolling will be running at 6 pm Eastern on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, respectively. There is now officially nothing else like this on the internet. Many kudos to Markos for his continued support of this little art form of ours.

I’m a big proponent of getting outside of your life and exploring things simply because they interest you. I think it’s particularly vital for those of us who toil in the sewers of political discourse to have other enthusiasms, which is at least partly why I went on a NASA Tweetup over Thanksgiving, to see the launch of the Mars rover, Curiosity. It was a great experience — met some fantastic people, spent a few days exploring the Kennedy Space Center and surrounding wildlife refuge, and saw a rocket launch. As I heard someone say, it was like a field trip for grownups! Many more photos below the fold.
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February 1, 2012
State of the primary

…also: today’s comic here.

Bucking contemporary trends, the Chattanooga Pulse is actually adding a comics page. They kicked it off with an interview with me.

Saw this Nam June Paik installation* at the local Target this morning.

*Not really a Nam June Paik installation.

Have been making selections for an Italian compilation of This Modern World, to be published sometime in the spring. Now I just need to find a new American publisher. (Any interested editors should feel free to contact me!)

… adding: the strip runs in 80 papers, as well as on the most widely-read liberal political site on the internet; I’ve got 24K followers on Twitter. Surely there must be a publisher out there somewhere who is intrigued by numbers such as these?

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Jan. 25, 2012
Bedbug Man

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You may have read about the FBI investigation and arrests of four East Haven, Ct. police officers, not to mention the mayor’s subsequent tone-deaf response. This isn’t the first time the East Haven cops have made the news for racial profiling — I did a couple of cartoons about an earlier incident in which a young man lost his life, back in 1997. (Click to enlarge.)

(A recent update on the case here.)

Also: send a taco to the mayor of East Haven.

Bors:

I’m real glad Reddit saved the internet. Now, any chance their users can learn how to credit creators and sources of copyrighted material?