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AP v. Bloggers: The cartoon version

News Item: Associated Press claims bloggers are infringing on its copyright, threatens action.

Right...

A big day for cartooning

Today was my day to get ahead on my caption contest cartoons through the middle of June...

"Gentlemen! I believe that your investigation will determine... THAT THIS MAN WAS KILLED BY AN ENORMOUS PROJECTILE!"

"Actually, I bought us tickets to the ballet so we could have a little private time."

"On second thought, maybe it's time we reconsidered our priorities."

"You think you're very clever, don't you?"

Cockroach Vision

D oodle from some time ago (months? Years?) found yesterday on the back page of a legal pad.

An anti-stupidity logo?

Just found this 2006 doodle on the cover of an old sketchbook. I kinda dig it. If you dig it too, you can use it on your site... Just abide by Xark's Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Confederate Bass flag, Part Deux

I've been trying to figure out exactly what the Confederate Bass Flag means, and I think I've about given up. So I figure, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- by putting other things on a Confederate Flag bumpersticker...

Friday's cartoon on Tuesday...

Seemed timely.

Meanwhile, elsewhere...

Over at the cartoon blog, this week's caption contest is up...

While over at the work blog (now largely defunct), I've got an instructional video for people who are just starting out on Twitter...

Twitter get-started tutorial from Dan Conover on Vimeo.

Another inappropriate cartoon...

So, OK, I guess I kinda knew this one wasn't going to fly, but the thought just cracked me up. Consider this a "study" for the captionless cartoon I'm about to turn in at the office...

Rejected cartoons

Tuesday are -- on good weeks, anyway -- the days when I do my cartooning. This morning I did some computer work and finally got myself set up with Photoshop, InDesign and working scanner all properly functional on one computer.

But you still have to draw something, and the fact of the matter is, sometimes, no matter what I do, I just struggle to come up with ideas that will work in a cartoon caption contest in a family newspaper. That doesn't mean that my rejects don't crack me up occasionally.

Spartan Santa Sex

Because, you know, 300 really was kinda porny...

Consider this your 2007 Santa Sex & Elf Panties holiday card from the staff here at Xark!

This week: Thanks, dudes

(With apologies to Norman Rockwell.)

To enter this week's Fun & Games caption contest, e-mail me your captions (as many as you like, but do me a favor and don't send each one individually). Be sure to write "CAPTION CONTEST" in the subject line.

I stop taking entries at 5 p.m. on Monday and put up five finalists ASAP. Online voting runs until 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Mysterious Island

'Hello, help desk?'

This week's cartoon. Enter your captions at the contest page...

Where books come from

This week's contest: Gnomes gone wild

You can enter this week's caption contest by e-mailing me. More user-scripted cartoons at the Fun & Games blog...

Write your own caption to be entered in this week's contest...

Dick Cheney: Not part of Executive Branch

(Cartoonist note: I didn't really get to complete this one before I went to work this morning, so this updated, final version has some differences from the one I put up earlier today-- dc)

Worlds Ugliest Dog wears Santas panties with Elves in Christmas Porn Gala

You asked for it, you got it.

Vote on cartoon contest

Opinion Polls & Market Research

The "Korea model"

Cartoon contest deadline today

Enter this week's Fun & Games blog caption contest by e-mailing me by 5 p.m. today (be sure to write CAPTION CONTEST in the subject line, and tell me where you live)... Voting starts this evening and continues until Wednesday at 10 a.m...

New economy comix

Sometimes people don't really seem to get what I'm talking about when I get on a rant about copyright, or the "new media economy," or the rise of "the creative middle class."

Hell, sometimes I don't know what I'm talking about when I get on those rants.

But here's a cartoon that EXPLAINS IT ALL.

So go read it already...

Last day for this week's caption contest

From the Friday 5 blog, which has all the entries so far listed in comments. To enter, you gotta submit by e-mail no later than 5 p.m. today.

An alternative religion

Bush holds post-election press conference

How the newsroom really works

I got these from John Robinson, the editor of my hometown paper, who sent me the link with the thought that I might enjoy them. He was right, too.

Here's the first chart:

...And here's the second one:

What really  cracked me up was this comment at John's place: "What I'd like to know is why you can't report the facts without the bias."

Oy vey.