I found this from a friend of a friend on Facebook. I rarely even click on vids – so tiny, short, and many of them are stupid or pretend real. But I’m glad I did on this one! It’s so funny that I’ll give you $1 if you don’t laugh.

Btw,  I posted it on my page on Facebook, and got a lot of appreciative comments. But when I went to get it, to post here, it had disappeared, with all of the comments! I guess that was a copycat Youtube, not the original. I’m fine with attributing pageviews to the OP, and not these stealing copycat guys, so I hunted for it on Youtube, and this is the original, with about 18 million views at the moment.

However, if Facebook is so fussy about Youtube videos being stolen, how about cartoons or photos that are stolen ALL THE TIME, EVERY DAY on there?  They always pretend they can’t find what I am reporting!!! Could Facebook’s retarded and nonsensical rules (and illegal activity) get any worse? They are really king of copyright infringement (although MySpace taught them how to do it.)

But back to the dog. Love it!

More cartoons:

1. The official Osama bin Laden cartoon.
2. An odd couple of cartoonists.

I really love fooling around with my WordPress blogs, but it has always bothered me that when people are looking for cartoons on a certain topic, whether it’s Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, or Dancing with the Stars, that they may not be able to find all the cartoons on that topic.

Sure, there are Categories in the sidebar, and tags underneath each post, and even 2 search buttons, but still, I’m not sure that everyone finds what they are looking for.

New way to index the cartoons

So I was superexcited last week to find a plugin that would help me get organized…at least on this blog! It’s AZIndex, and you can find it on WordPress. I’m not sure how long it will last, since it’s been abandoned by the author, and isn’t getting updated to new WordPress versions, but I hope something like this is taken up by some other smart WP plugin author.

Unattractive portrait of Obama via Wikipedia

Sarah Palin via Wikipedia - just lAY OFF the hunting, Sarah.

All the cartoons on this site are on the page now, which you can find in my tab on the top  under All Op-Ed Cartoons or in the sidebar link called Index of Cartoons. Cartoons are organized by tag names (which you can also see underneath each post). While I was putting this together, I combined or deleted some tags (law, lawyer, and laws are kind of similar), so I’ll have to go through and tag some of the cartoons more appropriately. Some of my most used tags are Obama, oil, Sarah Palin, LA Times, TV, and, of course, death. :) I also have more than I thought on armed forces and military, which I will probably combine…

Of course, I really have to upload a lot more cartoons on this site, anyway – this is just a small portion of what I’ve been doing the past couple of years. (For instance, I have a hella lot more California cartoons that I do for CalWatchdog.) But before Uclick laid me off I was in 3 venues: Slate, Yahoo, and Gocomics. Seemed like that was enough, and I didn’t add that many here. But when they laid me off they took down all 2 years of archives there, just gone. so…

I’m also not sure what to do about my cartoon roundups that I’ve been doing for the LA Times. I haven’t been tagging all the various cartoonists I include. Maybe I should.

How to buy these cartoons

Anyway, hope this is fun and helpful. Here are terms for using these cartoons. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the cartoons or make comments, or share with a friend, but it’s illegal to reproduce or use cartoons  (or any image) without permission,  EVEN IN SCHOOLS, and is subject to hefty fines. And as you know, I always go after people. ;)

As I was writing this, a little post by Steven Hart caught my eye. He says Tom Tomorrow has left the building at Salon, and:

One of the many ingenious things the newspaper industry has done to destroy itself is to dumb down op-ed pages, shrink comics down to postage-stamp size, and shy away from political cartoonists. There was a time when Pat Oliphant, Herblock and Paul Conrad were as well known as columnists like Art Buchwald and David Broder.

(Why did he include Oliphant with Paul Conrad?) Anyway, I’m not included in his little group, but that’s okay. I’ll always have my pen and my flights of imagination.

More cartoons:

1. The vampire and Sarah Palin.
2. Tofu for Thanksgiving cartoon, not necessarily vegan.

High winds and choppy seas frustrated efforts to hold back the oil spill seeping into Louisiana‘s rich fishing grounds and nesting areas Friday, and the government desperately cast about for new ideas for dealing with the nation’s biggest environmental crisis in decades.

bp plc oil spill cartoon

Like it was just A problem, a natural disaster, instead of being entirely manmade by BP!!!

The spill — a slick more than 130 miles long and 70 miles wide — threatens hundreds of species of wildlife, including birds, dolphins and the fish, shrimp, oysters and crabs that make the Gulf Coast one of the nation’s most abundant sources of seafood. Louisiana closed some fishing grounds and oyster beds because of the risk of oil contamination.

A lawsuit filed this week by an injured technician on the platform claims that Halliburton improperly cemented the well. Cementing is a process in which a slurry is used to fill the gap between the drilled hole and the casing, or the pipe that brings oil and gas up out of the ground.

They STILL don’t name the company that caused this disaster! I had to read farther and look other places to discover that it is BP- British Petroleum. So then I just had to do a BP cartoon immediately, even though I’m suffering the aftereffects of a car accident – and let me be clear, when I say “accident”, that I mean this idiot crashed into me while deciding to take over my lane with his ugly huge Ford van. I’m still in shock, actually – I have been babying this car for the 4 years I’ve owned it, and have never loved a car before. We both have insurance, a miracle, but he put a hole in it, and in my time, and in my pocket, at least now.

Anyway, Donna Brazile writes in CNN:

The failure of the “shear ram,” the set of steel blades intended to slash through a pipe at the top of a well and close off the flow of crude, should not have surprised BP or the corporations that work for it. Eight years ago, the Minerals Management Service found that 50 percent of the shear rams tested failed. So calling the failure of the “last resort device” an accident is like calling the damage caused by a drunken driver an accident. Failure to take the proper precautions is not an accident; it’s negligence.

She goes on to plant a big kiss on Obama’s behind, and say how well he’s handling this, which remains to be seen, of course.

Anyway, it’s clear that BP lied about the extent of the damage, the amount of oil, what would happen, etc. However, I don’t think any of my papers printed this one…:) Libel, anyone? This cartoon is dedicated to marine animals everywhere, and those who didn’t make it through the scum.

Caption: BP PLC IS A LIAR.

(I could also have written, We’re not just initials, we’re jackasses. )

More cartoons:

1. The beach, the surf, and California’s political campaign. Aah.
2. Political oil, immigration, Facebook cartoons for the LA Times for May 2, 2010.

Gizmodo and iphone cartoon

I was interested in the news about Gizmodo and the iPhone last week, even though I don’t read/have either one, just because I like tech news.  It took me a couple of days before I had time to read the details.

Gawker Media’s Gizmodo blog dropped a bomb on technology enthusiasts Monday with information and pictures of what looks like a prototype for Apple’s next iPhone. Gawker paid for access to the device from a person who found it at a bar in Redwood City, Calif., Gizmodo editor Jason Chen said. Gawker founder Nick Denton coyly acknowledged in a tweet Monday that his company has paid for exclusives before.

I was outraged at this! And happy to find this article from Daily Finance on how Apple could easily sue Gizmodo for knowingly buying the stolen iPhone. The author actually talked with Nick Denton.

Gawker Media has admitted — boasted, really — that it paid $5,000 to get its hands on a prototype of a fourth-generation iPhone for its gadget blog, Gizmodo.

Now that I’ve had a few hours to digest all this, I am somewhat scandalized, even outraged. Put simply, Gawker Media brazenly, publicly flouted the law. It subsidized a crime: the selling of stolen merchandise.

See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/aGnF2V

What Jeff  Bercovici doesn’t bring up, however, is how Gizmodo also stole and used intellectual property, known as trade secrets.

Business Insider says that Denton now claims he LOST money because of this big scoop! 

With characteristic humility, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton describes his company’s acquisition of an iPhone 4Q — two months before Apple (AAPL) was set to unveil it — as “pretty much the biggest tech scoop ever.” But while there’s no question the story brought Gawker millions of page views, what it hasn’t brought so far, Denton says, is money…

Today the LA Times says the police raided the house of the blogger who wrote on Gizmodo. ‘Bout time. Not exactly police, it was a REACT task force.

Wiki describes Nick Denton, owner of Gawker Media, as British and openly gay. Well, he’s openly bitchy, that’s for sure. He has a bunch of blogs, some worse than others. Defamer is his most famous. Nice graphics, boring gossip. (I guess sites like this are for people who don’t live in Hollywood and are jealous.)

But the first blog of his I even noticed was Wonkette, which is supposedly Washington DC gossip. Well…I guess. Lots of slurs, sexual innuendo, and just plain swearing. Reading the comments and the ad demographics, when I had to, which I’ll explain, I think the average reader is a college-educated 25 year old male who is pretty sure he knows everything and is the center of everyone’s world. If this is not your favorite demo group, stay away.

Anyway, there is a blogger on Wonkette who calls himself the Comics Curmudgeon. He reviews (says hateful things about) editorial cartoons each week, and his posts get about 15,000 views. That’s popular, in my little world. Mean comments follow his posts. I would never have found him, but he included my cartoons in his roundup the first week I went on Slate. The 4th time he posted a cartoon of mine he called me “the mysterious D. Barstow.” Well, mysterious would be a good description if one had never learned to use google, I guess, or read what Slate says about me ON THEIR SITE.

I got hundreds and hundreds of hits on my blogs, but it took me half a day to figure out where they came from. Because he didn’t bother to link to me. Not to Slate, Gocomics, or any of my blogs. In fact, Wonkette hardly ever links to any place, I noticed. Bad online etiquette and extremely greedy. (also bad self-esteem, worried someone will leave Wonkette and never go back.)

At first I thought it wasn’t Fair Use, for him to be using all of our cartoons without pay. I changed my mind on that. Even though he doesn’t actually review them, or even mention any of the cartoonists by name (except for me that one time – on purpose, I suspect), he does at least refer to the cartoons.

But then there’s his hotlinking. Yes, illegally. Cartoonists on Slate don’t get paid at all. We get paid only by hits. So because he hotlinks (making Uclick/Slate’s server pay the bill for 15,000 looks at each cartoon), we don’t get paid a penny for all those views. Wonkette uses the Uclick servers, and doesn’t give us one gold-darned penny for the creators or eyeballs for advertising.

The Comics Curmudgeon did agree to stop using my cartoons, at my request. A small example of grace from a low-class thieving company.

You can also view this cartoon on Yahoo or read comments on Gocomics.

Oh, and Dooce? I hate that blog, don’t you? I think she got pregnant again just for the hits – have no idea if she ever birthed it. As soon as I read her introduction of herself  – “I’m always constipated” – I knew we would never be friends. And she used to live near me, too!

Captions for blind Google: Gizmodo Nerd:“Yeah, I bought stolen merchandise, and sold trade secrets. So?” Lawyer:“Your honor, my client was practicing his religion – worship of iPhones.” JUDGE: “GUILTY!!! I sentence you to unusual punishment online, reading only Dooce!”

More cartoons:

1. Editorial cartoons for LA Times, April 2010.
2. Funniest dog video of 2011!

All they do is rewrite real journalists, or use the news verbatim published elsewhere, and slap a provocative (and usually misleading) title on it. Now PuffPo has gone local, with a Los Angeles subsection. Watch out, LA Times, for plagiarism and attribution without links.

But the part I take personally is that they don’t pay anyone!! They are the biggest blog in the country now, if not the world, run by one of the richest women. Check out this article in the LA Times. Arianna Huffington is quoted:

Huffington said ads will run on the site, and the Huffington Post and Causecast will split the ad revenue. Any money donated to any cause goes directly to the cause, with nothing coming out of it.

Her site continues to expand, reinvesting its proceeds in the product. “We’ve had a very, very good advertising year,” she said. “We would be in the black if we were not expanding. Whether you are profitable or not depends whether you’re standing still or expanding. This is a window we need to take advantage of.”

The article is about how the PuffPost is adding a bunch of news about causes, called Impact, because they’re so liberal and they want to help. Well, wanting to help is a good thing. Yet…her own writers and worker bees get NOTHING, NO MONEY, in their best year yet!  Yet she wants them to donate from their non-existent wages. This doesn’t sound liberal to me, it sounds like a medieval caste system. Ugh, PuffPo is pathetic.

It’s been a cliche for a few years now – everyone online loves to write how they never read a real newspaper anymore. Like this is something rare, unusual, and quite cool. They have Twitter, all the news websites, social media, etc, and newspapers are dead. Um, yeah, right.I’ve been doing Slate editorial cartoons for a year now, and most of my best ideas still come from the hardcopy newspaper. I get the LA Times delivered Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun, for some very low price. (I miss the Weds food, though!) Newspapers are dirty, and take space in an apartment, and aren’t as much fun as a book or TV. But damned if I don’t find interesting, important, informative info that I really need and enjoy, all the time.

I’m all for saving time and taking shortcuts. And when I don’t have an idea for my next Slate cartoon, I cruise right on over to the New York Times, Washington Post, and usually, but not always, the LA Times.

But papers are better. Since I now mine news both online and in the paper, I’ve decided that reading the hardcopy paper is like getting a Bachelor of Arts degree instead of a Bachelor of Science – it makes for a more well-rounded, educated, interesting person!

This site, Compete, says Huff Post got particularly big after the 2008 election.

Site design and architecture likely factor into this widening gap, as sites like DailyKos and Crooks and Liars post their content in-full on the landing page, where the Huffington Post requires a few more clicks to read complete articles.

A commenter there had a GREAT point:

The Huffington Post employs some smart guys who know how to milk the Big-G. They create pages with great titles which are hot in the news, and then inside, there’s just a photo and a link to an article on the subject from the AP or some other MSM paper. (my bold)  Plus, they’re heavily focused on celebrity pics and entertainment. So you can’t really compare HuffPo to the other liberal blogs.

That undelivered promise was going to be my point, but thanks for writing it up! This is a major reason why I despise the PuffPost, and pity the fool bloggers who keep quoting from it: It seems like almost every “article” there is a lifted photo, with no link, a ridiculous title, then a link to a real newspaper, where they get the actual facts, (If you’re lucky! Recently I’ve been seeing news stories with no link at all! Thieves!) and then the writer adds some lame, uninformed opinion, or, worse, a pathetic try at humor. I have never gotten any original news or even a new point of view from PuffPost.

The problem with online is you always have to be specific and drill down. Everytime you pick one thing, you miss all the rest. Sure, you can get your movie reviews, stocks, tech news, science, whatever grabs you. But you never see the entire paper that way, and it’s dissected like an unfortunate frog.

I’m constantly running into odd little items in the paper that I wouldn’t see taking the online, laser beam route. New analysis, in depth investigations (like the one I recently did about poor Mr. Broom) and other stuff that is too tedious to read online (ie, longer than 3 paragraphs). Crimes and mysteries are my secret indulgence.  But I don’t want to go to those weird creepy sites like News of the Weird – I want the LA Times to vet things, clean things up. And I like the entertainment business news – I even got Slate to start a section of Entertainment cartoons that they never had before!

Huffington Post, eat it.

Cartoon caption: “You’ll start a great knitting blog, but Arianna Huffington will find it, and squish it.” This was my very first cartoon for Double X, Slate’s sister site!

And I haven’t done any knitting for the longest time, but I love it, and I have a pattern for a rug in mind, once I get time. And find the right color yarn.

More cartoons:

1. The Original Chia Pet Cartoon of Barack Obama.*
2. LA Times forgot Dilbert, but readers didn’t.

Been reading good things about it. I can’t wait to see if it’s really faster, and has better search capabilities on my HD! Have you ever tried to search thousands of images on XP?

I know, everyone expects all artists and cartoonists to have Macs. Most of them do! But I always knew I wanted the thinking kind of machine, not the feel-good one, so I went with Windows. My only regrets are getting viruses or trojans, once bad enough to disable my whole computer for a couple of weeks. Hideous and frightening. Oh, and as I said, the search on XP totally sucks. Come to me, Windows 7, baby.

For some reason, I just recently discovered Google Desktop, which is supposed to do a fast search. I can see why I turned it off a couple of years ago. It’s great for the double control click to search my own files, but when internet search gets involved, forgeddaboutit! It must take a good 20 seconds to do any search at all, since it searches both my whole hard drive and the internet. Stupid code. I finally had to turn off the whole toolbar, and I really liked that little clock. :(

Anyway, saving my pennies for Windows 7, but not looking forward to wiping my drive and copying everything over somewhere else. That sort of thing is super scary.

The Caption: Windows 7 as the rising sun in the East. This is one of my favorite cartoons ever. Sometimes the surprises in the drawing are the best part. I could have drawn it as a really simple sunrise, but I all of a sudden remembered a job I had back east for an insurance job. (YES, I did the cubicle thing for a couple of years! How else do you think I identify with the little people?!) A handful of us really wanted the overtime, so we would get there very early, when there was hardly anyone in the building, and no one on our floor. All the way down at the far end of the building a colleague found we could see the sunrise. It was beautiful, and a good way to start the day. That building actually had great views all over. I have great views here, too, but sometimes the cold city is what I crave.

More cartoons:

1. Building a mosque near Ground Zero? It’s a NO-brainer.
2. Great Halloween cartoon of haunted house!

What if everybody on Facebook from all over the world got together separately at a specific day and time and sent a collective, silent mind-message to Washington and Afghan to stop the killing? Wouldn’t cost a dime. Would that work do you think?

Um, how about sending emails. That doesn’t cost a dime, either. Or is it too much…work?

His reply to my comment:

Good idea, Donna–but EVERYONE would have to read the emails at the same time for the same kind of impact, yes?

No telling what his political orientation might be.

More cartoons:

1. Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner are rich and Republican!
2. Who paid for Michael Jackson’s flamboyant funeral?

I was trying to decide what to do for my Slate cartoon today, and found that once again Google was in the news for lifting not just orphan books, but every book ever written.  I did my first Slate cartoon about Google a few weeks ago, and  the news then was that FINALLY the Justice Department was investigating Google for anti-trust violations and being an obvious monopoly and stealing all books for itself. Today, however, the New York Times reports:

The Justice Department, which submitted a 32-page filing to the court on Sept. 18, said it was concerned the agreement could violate antitrust law by giving Google “de facto exclusive rights for the digital distribution of orphan works.” Orphan works are books whose authors are unknown or cannot be found. The Justice Department also said it wanted the settlement to comply with procedures for class-action lawsuits.

WHAT??????????? How did you publicize this date? I have 2 books in print. Did you contact me? Did you have Amazon contact me? Did you tell my publishers to contact me? Did you include a notice under my name which I google at least once a week, and which includes my books? Did you find me in gmail? Did you look me up on the internet and find my name which is listed hundreds of times?

OR DID YOU DO ******* NOTHING?

I wrote to you almost 2 years ago telling you that I didn’t want to be a part of Google, EVER. I was so angry then to find that you had stolen 30 cartoons, 20% of my book, my copyrighted book, that I was shaking. Instead of doing what I told you to, you IGNORED my request, and continued to display my cartoons for 2 years for your own benefit.

I’m enclosing an invoice for your use of my cartoons for 2 years. I am demanding that you remove both of my books from Google’s stolen “library” and also remove me from any settlement you make with any organization.

My comments on your outrageous proposal to steal every single book published before 2009 and distribute it, as the monopoly you are, to benefit your own coffers, follow each of your demands below.

God, what lying pigs you are. TAKING 20% OF ALL BOOKS AND DISTRIBUTING THEM TO EVERYONE IS NOT FAIR USE, AND BREAKS DOWN THE DMCA.

THAT MEANS EVERY AUTHOR, ALIVE OR DEAD, WHO PUBLISHED A BOOK BEFORE THIS YEAR.

Are there any printed works that are excluded from the definition of “Book?”
Yes. The following items are excluded from the definition of Book:

• Periodicals, for example, newspapers, magazines or journals;

YOU ALREADY LINK TO EVERY NEWSPAPER AND CACHE ALL THEIR MATERIAL, AND YOU’VE RUINED THE MAGAZINE & NEWSPAPER BUSINESS. BUT FOR SOME REASON YOU DON’T INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR SO-CALLED “LIBRARY.” WHATS THE MATTER, DID THEY HAVE TOO MANY LAWYERS?

If you do nothing, you will be bound by the Settlement. If you do not claim your Books, you will not receive any Cash Payment or be able to participate in future revenue from Google’s use of your Books. By staying in the Settlement, you will, however, release all copyright infringement claims you might have against Google for digitizing your Books without your permission.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE TO DO THE WORK TWICE TO GET PAID FOR THE BOOKS YOU ARE STEALING FROM US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If an author or publisher opts out of the Settlement, the terms of the Settlement will not apply to this author or publisher. This means that the author or publisher is retaining all rights to bring a legal action against Google, for digitizing and displaying the author’s or publisher’s books and Inserts, and against the Participating Libraries, if desired. It also means that the Settlement neither authorizes Google to make certain uses of these books and Inserts nor does it prohibit Google from doing so.

I WORK IN THE MEDIA. I’M SAVVY ABOUT COPYRIGHT AND CONTRACTS. AND IF I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS SEPT 4 DEADLINE, YOU CAN BET THOUSANDS OF OTHERS DIDN’T KNOW EITHER. I HATE YOU SO SO MUCH.

Under the Settlement, Rightsholders authorize Google, on a non-exclusive basis, to:

• Continue to digitize Books and Inserts
• Sell subscriptions to an electronic Books database to institutions;
• Sell online access to individual Books;
• Sell advertising on pages from Books;
• Display portions of Book in a “preview” format to encourage sales of online access to Books;
• Display Snippets from Books; and
• Display bibliographic information from Books.

YOU’RE NOT MY ******* PUBLISHER!!!!! YOUR PREVIEW OF 20% OF THE BOOK IS BOGUS AND IS GIVING THE BOOK AWAY FOR FREE YOU STUPID *****.

Only one $60 Cash Payment will be made for a Principal Work, even if it appears in more than one Book, or that both as a Book and also as an Insert in another Book (because a portion of the first Book was quoted in the second Book). Each Book contains only one Principal Work. For example, a Book of the novel The Old Man and the Sea might contain an introduction, footnotes and an afterword. The novel itself would be that Book’s Principal Work; each of the other materials would be an Insert if the U.S. copyright interest in those other materials is held by someone other than the Rightsholder of the Principal Work. Similarly, a Book could contain several short stories from a variety of authors (such as the Best Short Stories of 2008). A collection of short stories would be the Principal Work and each individual short story would be an “Insert.”

$60 FOR A BOOK? THAT DOESN’T EVEN PAY FOR THE USE OF ONE CARTOON!!!! HOW GREEDY CAN YOU GET? YOU ARE SUCH BLATANT THIEVES, SHUTTING DOWN COPYRIGHT LAW AND HURTING MILLIONS OF REAL CREATORS. WITH THIS FORCED CONTRACT, YOU PROVE HOW UNETHICAL YOU TRULY ARE.

Can Rightsholders request that their works NOT be available on Google?

Books: Yes. Rightsholders of Books have two options under the Settlement, removal or exclusion.

Rightsholders can request Google to remove one or more of their Books if they have already been digitized, or request Google not to digitize a Book at all. Rightsholders have the right to remove a Book from the Google Library Project by request received on or before April 5, 2011. After April 5, 2011, Google will honor “do not digitize” requests if Google has, as of the date of that request, not already digitized the Book.

GOOGLE HAS MADE US BEG. GOOGLE IS USING ITS DISGUSTING POWER TO FORCE AUTHORS AND CREATORS TO LICK THE GROUND AND BEG GOOGLE NOT TO COPY OUR BOOKS, INSTEAD OF GOOGLE MANNING UP AND PAYING US FOR OUR GOOD WORK. GOOGLE HAS BROKEN THE SPINE OF COPYRIGHT LAW.

What are the Display Uses?
Display Uses include Access Uses, Preview Uses, Snippet Displays, and Display of Bibliographic Pages.

• Access Uses include viewing and annotating the entire Book, and printing and copying and pasting portions of the Book, subject to page number limitations. The uses include institutional subscriptions, consumer purchase of online access, public access at libraries and elsewhere.
• Preview Uses allow a searcher to view up to 20% of a book before making a purchase decision, but will not allow a searcher to copy and paste, annotate or print any pages from the Book. Preview uses are designed to serve as a marketing tool to sell the Book.
• Snippet Displays allow a search to view three or four lines of text from a Book, with up to three snippet uses per user for the Book.

HERE WE GO. GOOGLE’S IDEA OF HOW TO SELL A BOOK IS TO GIVE 20% OF IT AWAY FOR FREE. HOW MORONIC DO YOU THINK WE ARE?????????????

What am I giving up if I stay in the Settlement?
If you choose to stay in the Settlement, you give up your right to sue Google and each Participating Library ever again for any claims related to those at issue in this Settlement. For further information, please read the complete release, contained in Article X of the Settlement Agreement.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE ****** YOU GOOD, WRITERS.

My original complaint is below. It’s so hard making a living as a cartoonist – you have no idea how I struggle. One of my biggest accomplishments is that I have had 2 books published. And now you want to take away all pleasure in my creation, all ownership, all fun, and any possible money. You are scum, and worse than medieval lords.

More cartoons:

1. Doesn’t Windows 7 deserve a good cartoon?
2. Complete list of all Political Cartoons through 2011!

I blog, therefore I am ©Bob Gorrell

To see original, and possibly comments on Gocomics: here.

What can I say? This “trend” of blogging is about 5 years too old, yet the cartoon was done just yesterday. I don’t know this cartoonist, but he worked at a paper and now he’s syndicated. He doesn’t look that old…and yet…ah, gee, this is just so bad.

I won’t even comment on it being a nerd. Has he checked out MSM lately? Or SAHMs who I think are the biggest growing group of bloggers in the world? (And so happy I don’t read them!)

I’ve been commenting on blogs for 5 years or more – I can’t remember. Have had blogs of my own for 2 years – this is my 3rd.

One certainly doesn’t have to have a blog – although they’re fun – but to call it news in any way??? Worthy of mentioning in the paper? Gee, maybe I should try syndication. It must be so hard to do.

I hope I’m not being too mean.

More cartoons:

1. Farewell to Lost cartoon.
2. People who don’t read a newspaper are dull.

This is how every WordPress blog begins, with the title and sentence above. (The photo is the view from my apartment of the Glendale mountains, on a very rare day of beautiful clouds.) WordPress is charming and exciting – and very often frustrating. I’m leaving that famous sentence up here, even though this is actually my 3rd WordPress blog, because the beginning is always something to celebrate!

I’m starting this third blog because my first cartoon blog, Why I Did It, is more about general cartoons and my life as a cartoonist, and this will be a blog  just about current events and the news and my response to that through cartoons. (All posts before today are ones I posted over there and moved here as archives.) I’ll be posting each editorial cartoon here, about a week after they are published in Slate and Gocomics (Sorry, no link now. Uclick threw away 2 years of my cartoons on Slate, Gocomics and Yahoo News when they kicked me out of Gocomics.) first. So if you want them hot off the press, go there. New ones go up about 10:30 PM PST for the next day.

I’ve only been doing editorial cartoons for a few months, so it’s been quite the learning experience. I’ll share some of that with you, too.

And I was thrilled to find this theme (template), so beautiful in its simplicity. I did make a lot of changes, but the major elements are still here, (I hope), and Dansette gets all the credit for that. I still want to change the header (the black & grey bar at the top), but I also want to get this blog rolling, on June 13th, lucky day!

And we’re off.

More cartoons:

1. Complete list of all Political Cartoons through 2011!
2. Obama won Nobel Peace Prize in spite of himself.