February 9, 2021
Comics and cartoons are finding new life outside of the Sunday funnies. As the art form becomes more accessible from artists posting their work online, offering artistic and creative breaks in people’s feeds, Pittsburgh cartoon artist Joe Wos wants to teach anyone, regardless of age, how to get started drawing, too.
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Joe Wos will host a cartoon teaching series on public tv.
Through WQED Education and the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s “Learning at Home” initiative, Wos will teach six courses that guide students through the creative steps of drawing cartoon characters.
[Joe’s] WQED classes through Cartoon Academy will start at an elementary level and build to more advanced techniques and concepts such as creating texture and facial expressions.
Steven Clay (S. Clay) Wilson
July 25, 1941 – February 7, 2021
cartoonist, artist S. Clay Wilson 7/25/1941 – 2/7/2021.
He’s gone. At 4pm yesterday. I sat next to him all day yesterday, telling him stories…one of arriving here in a crowd of topless woman on Pride Day…..astonished by the nudity on the streets…..laughing at the memory of Wilson – tall & gallant – tryna help a drunk topless woman in cowboy boots down off the hood of a gleaming cadillac,holding one hand, while she gripped a long, battered trombone with the other…..She stepped down to the pavement with pendulous breast swaying….for all the world like a newly crowned Queen….stumbling a bit..but royal in her carriage…strolling off proudly without so much as a nod or a thank you… Wilson gleaming with Pride for his city…his rebellious Barbary Coast…
There are some good cartoons on the impending impeachment trial, and we’ll start with
Dan Wasserman (Tribune) because he sets the scene: It’s going to require at least 17 Republicans to vote guilty in order to convict.
Watergate was different in that the actions being investigated were contained within the Executive and there was little Congressional involvement. We’ll never know how an impeachment trial would have come out, but
This time around, as Wasserman suggests, more Republican Senators would have to admit their own complicity, not so much in the call to riot (though a few would), as in creating the atmosphere of alienation in which a patently false accusation of a stolen election could rile up people.
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The Oatmeal has it right: Enough already with the Bernie memes.
Timing is everything and you had your chance and if you haven’t placed Bernie somewhere and posted it on social media, it’s too late now.
We’re fixated now on the horror of
Joe Biden owning an expensive watch and a Peloton exercise system, which is such a contrast with the modest, monastic lifestyle of our previous president.
Note that the current president favors raising taxes on the sort of people who have Rolex watches and Pelotons, while the previous one lowered taxes on people who live in what appear to be 19th-century bordellos.