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Welcome, David Cohen!
ByWe’re tickled to welcome renowned political cartoonist David Cohen to the site as a regular contributor. For us locals, David needs no introduction. For those of you unfortunate enough not to live here in the mountains, his work has appeared in many national publications and graces the pages of our own Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper twice weekly.
You can contact David by clicking here or through his Facebook page, which contains a bunch of his great artwork. Welcome, David…we’re looking forward to your talents!
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December 21st, 2009 at 8:29 am
I don’t know about renowned, but I have a pretty high opinion of myself, Michael!
I’ve been a faithful reader of Scrutiny Hooligans for over a year, and it has been a valuable resource when I’m looking for phrases or opinions that might trigger an idea for a cartoon.
While my main gig is the Citizen-Times, there will be times when I’ve drawn something that won’t be quite appropriate for them. That’s fine; that’s what editors are for. Jim Buchanan has probably saved me from some grief that would have hit me broadside if he had run one of those.
But Michael and Gordon have said to damn the torpedoes, and so I will. “Damn, you torpedoes!”
This site, and my own, will be where those inappropriate salvoes will show up.
Looking forward to it!
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December 21st, 2009 at 8:58 am
Oh, so we’re doing cartoons about relijun?
This one is brilliant: http://video.adultswim.com/the-drinky-crow-show/god-of-monkeys.html
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December 21st, 2009 at 9:09 am
Jim Buchanan is great to work with. Welcome.
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December 21st, 2009 at 9:43 am
To be fair, David, the caption should read: “Cecil Bothwell? Not sure if he exists or not, but I know Cecil Bothwell is not relevant to my existence.”
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December 21st, 2009 at 10:48 am
Barry—
paragraph 6, section a873 of the Editorial Cartoonist Code of Behavior—
“at no time are you to be fair, or even hint at the doctrine of fairness, in either your published work or your spoken word. If you are desirous of “fair”, get thee to where the tractors and homemade pickles reside.
And, to be honest, all I know of you is some graphic representation of a frowny face. YOU might not even exist, or be relevant to either my work or MY existence. But I’m going to make a leap of faith here, Barry…
I believe in you, but don’t make me swear to it.
And Tom, that is SO@#$%^&*ing brilliant!
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December 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
David makes a good point here. What’s up with all these faceless avatars? Are you all a bunch of pantywaists? Afraid we might recognize you around town or something?
For those of you who might not know, you can make those dumb little avatars into real mugshots by visiting http://en.gravatar.com/ and uploading a pic. Then, every blog on which you post that’s gravatar-compatible (most of them) will feature your pretty little face. You already do it for Twitter and Facebook, why not for us?
It’s fun. It’s fast. And it’s free.
Oh — the photographer in me recommends a zoomed-in, tight crop — easier to make out when they’re real small, like here at ScruHoo.
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December 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am
Michael,
That might be a good front page post. I had no idea.
Gravatar won’t recognize my WordPress password, so it may be a little while before I can use it.
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December 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
How’s that, Blog Boy?
Gravatars are connected to email addresses: so when you log in to post a comment on a blog (as long as it’s with the same email you used to set up your free Gravatar account) you’re golden. You can also maintain a group of Gravatars, so when you change which one is displayed, that change ripples throughout the whole innerweb (it may take a few minutes, the innerweb is pretty big).
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December 21st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Well that just seems like too much work.
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December 21st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Well, hey – what the…!
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December 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
David – I wasn’t suggesting that you change the cartoon. I know what a pain that is, having once been mired in 12th century technology myself. It’s not worth the trouble to slaughter a goat & render his guts down to a smooth paste with which to form a crude eraser. Don’t give it another thought.
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