"The President's ratings have slipped a bit since his neutral stand on Iran's protests. So...what say we offer another photo op of Michelle Obama's arms?" "Two-fer. Have her lift up the dog." All rights reserved ©D.Barstow

I don’t know how long Wordless Wednesday has been going on, or if I noticed it much before, but a favorite twitter blogger birder – yes, Bev is all of those- does it, and I admire her, so I will try to, too!

Obviously this isn’t wordless, but next time it will be (except for, possibly, some words inside the cartoon. But they will murmur, not shout.)

*Updated. Wordless works great with photos, not so much cartoons. No more for me.

Spotted this the other day on Facebook: Facebook | Tom Tomorrow and Ted Rall Appreciation Society.

What do Tom Tomorrow and Ted Rall have in common?! They both begin with T.

Ted Rall Cartoon ©Ted Rall. I laughed out loud at this one! Although I'm not sure how his wife compares to employers. Ah, the joy of editorial cartoons!

Ted Rall has a particularly interesting name, only 7 letters. He wrote last week that his last name was the the answer to a crossword puzzle in the LA Times! That, my friends, is fame for a cartoonist. His website is only 4 letters, rall. That’s neat.

On Gocomics he is the most often subscribed to person in Editorial Cartoons. (I am number 5 from the bottom. In the old Gocomics of 2 months ago, which I MUCH preferred, for layout, presentation of the cartoons, favorite stars – which actually worked then- they also compared length of time on the site, and numbers of cartoons up, when they listed subscriber numbers. Now, they don’t, even though I’m the newest cartoonist in there. I just look unpopular.)

Of course, I could be both. :)

Read more »

Not that I would know myself. But I sort of do know all the rest of it. Not that I’ve ever had an iPhone, or a house, but I lost an apartment I loved once. Chalk another one up to Dave Goldstein and John Heller.

"I'm a gay, unmarried Republican, living in LA, who lost my house and my iPhone. It sucks to be me. ©D.Barstow 2009 All rights reserved.

Re the caption, living in LA, vs San Fran or some other majorly gay city. I think it doesn’t have the San Fran cache, especially for gays. And maybe he hates the heat. The dry, searing heat and muddled looking curdled sky.

Also, LA doesn’t like Republicans. I wrote an anecdote in my general cartoon blog, Why I Did It, the other day, but I think it bears repeating here:

I told an editor at the LA Times that I had been maligned all over the internet, and that I was being called the “r” word. He said, “What do you mean?” I blushed a little (even though it was on the phone) and said, “r-acist“, and he said, “Oh. I thought you meant Republican.”  Those wacky LA Times editors! Oh, and it was Tony Pierce. :) Although he was cool enough to laugh about it. (He’s the blog editor for all the LA Times’ blogs.)

Two years ago I was at an annual New Year’s Day Open House, hosted by a rabid, sign-toting, activist friend. A raving Democrat, who goes to rallies, meetings, etc. The desserts are always fantastic and generous, so believe me, it’s worth it. The talk turned to who we hoped would get nominated for President. Not just talk: we had to raise our hands and actually vote. (Are all rabid Dems like this?) I didn’t know anyone’s name except for Hillary Clinton, and so I picked her, although I think I said I wanted Guiliani, but he had just bowed out. I remember that we had to vote twice for some reason, and so the hole got deeper. I blanked out at this point…

Funny how things work out.

Dilbert isn’t an editorial cartoon, even though Scott Adams does do a lot of business topics, and knows more about business trends and management theory than any other cartoonist I’ve read. He’s even written books on this, although I’ve only read his cartoon books. Mmm, a new big fat book of Dilbert cartoons and some cookies to munch, and I’m in heaven!

But he is topical, and the LA Times runs him in the Business section; he’s the only cartoon in there. I remember the first time he appeared there; apparently there was some infighting in the Times as to who would get him, Business or Comics, and Business won. They made an announcement like they’d won the Olympics!

But when times got tough, they narrowed the columns, the pages, etc, and started running him one-panel size, so he ran vertically. I found out that I can’t understand the cartoons very well now. I have to read them 2 or 3 times, and sometimes I just skip it. Maybe this is my limitation, but I was so annoyed I wrote about this a year ago.

Last week I got a lot of traffic looking for Dilbert and the LA Times, and I knew something must have happened. I couldn’t check the paper, as I didn’t get it that day, but turns out the Times forgot to include Dilbert that one day, and people went nuts!

Apology from the Times the next day. No link to it, as they didn’t think it important enough to put online. Rock on, Dil.