The stupidity crisis.

… for those of you having trouble with Salon’s new format, you can read the cartoon here.

… that I’ve just been notified that one of the posters I did for Pearl Jam’s Philadelphia shows (night one) will be included in next year’s Society of Illustrators exhibit and book of the year’s best illustrations. It’s not an award, exactly, but it is an honor — out of 4600 submissions, only 400 or so made the final cut.

(Link to this year’s exhibit info here.)

Animation from 2000: the Rant-and-Rave Sparky craze!

Dana Perino: “We did not have a terrorist attack on this country during President Bush’s term.”

Seriously, she said that.

An important message from the Association of Right-Wing Bedwetters.

Since this cartoon ran. Widely excoriated in the right-wing blogosphere as anti-military, ludicrously enough.

Seems like a very long time ago.

Health care reform and abortion. (Mobile version at link above.)

A limited number of signed copies of The Very Silly Mayor are available at the publisher’s website. Or you can pick up a copy of the regular edition. Either way, if you have children, or know of any human beings who do, I do encourage you to pick up a copy. It really is the best way to support this little website/cartoon conglomerate of mine this holiday season.

… speaking of the Mayor, feedback from a reader fresh from the inbox:

I just wanted to thank you for “The Very Silly Mayor.” My boys, 3 and 5
years old, love it. They like to read it together, and then try to come up
with silly ideas. Afterwards, we talk about how we can tell if an idea is
silly. And it doesn’t hurt that they love penguins!

I apologize to regular readers for the repetition, but for anyone who might have missed the other eleventy-million times I’ve said this: I wrote this genuinely as a children’s book, not as a wink-wink-nudge-nudge “children’s” book actually aimed at adults, so it is the highest compliment I can receive to hear of it being enjoyed by its actual intended audience.

Last night Hannity had to apologize after Jon Stewart caught him splicing together video from different teabag rallies to make the crowds at the recent one seem larger than they were — he called the mistake “inadvertent.” Fox seems to have a recurring problem with these little “inadvertent” mistakes. From last March:

Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted that Fox News spliced a six-month old clip of Vice President Biden to misleadingly imply that he recently said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong.” Today, Fox News’s Martha MacCallum apologized to viewers and said it was an “inadvertent” error.”

As indicated in the announcements box above, I’ve finally figured out (with the help of kind reader Todd T.) how to set up a browser-based version of the cartoon optimized for mobile devices. I’m keeping it very simple — it’ll just be the most recent cartoon each week, with nothing archived. Bookmark the link if you want to give it a try; I’ll update it every Tuesday for awhile, and maybe make it a permanent feature, depending on the response I get.

… a tip for iPhone users: in Safari, click “Add Bookmark” then click “Add to Home Screen” — this puts a fake “app” button on your phone screen which will lead you straight to TMW. (You can even sort of choose the image — it takes a screen grab of whatever’s showing on your phone at that moment.)

… how to view on Blackberry (via reader Stuart):

1. once the initial link has loaded, push the options button and choose “select mode”.
2. scroll down until the cartoon panel is outlined (selected).
3. again hit the options button and choose “full image”.
4. the entire cartoon will load and is perfectly optimized to view and read on the Blackberry screen.