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teamcoco: From: CONAN Monologue 05/22/13

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:22:07 -0400

From: CONAN Monologue 05/22/13

faisdm: aijoskobi: mediaite: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:42:00 -0400

aijoskobi:

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

Never assume, people!

…There’s a man named Wolf Blitzer? WOLF BLITZER!?

Oh my god, America. Stop naming your people hilarious things! I only just stopped laughing about the existence of Randy Bumgardener!

Wolf Blitzer was born in Germany. It is his actual birth name.

I figger Holocaust survivors can name their kids whatever the hell they want.

Ah. I knew she was Irish. I was just wondering because he said he worked for Kay-bee, and I seem to remember you saying Bain was part of the reason Kay-Bee doesn't exist anymore.

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:52:44 -0400

Sure, but that wasn’t something I was cognizant of until years after naming him.

Wait, was Blaine named after Bain Capital?

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:13:38 -0400

It’s just an Irish-y name. Amber is Irish. Her last name is O’Malley.

teamcoco: J.J. Abrams Shows A Deleted Benedict Cumberbatch...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:29:14 -0400

teamcoco:

J.J. Abrams Shows A Deleted Benedict Cumberbatch Shower Scene [video]

Still stuck in Columbus until tomorrow morning. Guess...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:07:04 -0400

Still stuck in Columbus until tomorrow morning. Guess I’ll keep drawin’ comics.

(July 16)

SHAGGY YOU FOOL, SHE WANTS YOU TO DIG FOR IT

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:00 -0400

SHAGGY YOU FOOL, SHE WANTS YOU TO DIG FOR IT

aijoskobi: mediaite: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:34:57 -0400

aijoskobi:

mediaite:

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Asks Atheist Tornado Survivor If She ‘Thanked The Lord’

Never assume, people!

magnoliapearl: I got my advance copies of the book today. It...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:41 -0400

magnoliapearl:

I got my advance copies of the book today. It came out perfect <3

sweeeeeeeeet

mattbors: Have I even told Tumblr that I have a new book yet? I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:09:02 -0400

mattbors:

Have I even told Tumblr that I have a new book yet? I do! And Erika Moen likes it.

erikamoen:

Life Begins at Incorporation, a collection of political cartoons and essays by Matt Bors, is my favorite book I’ve read this year. Both his comics and writings are hilarious and brutal (brutally hilarious? Is that stupid to say?), cutting through American politics with laser-like precision. I honest-to-god laughed out loud while reading this and had to stop every other page to lean over to my husband and say, “This one! Read this one!”

His book is self-published with funds raised on Kickstarter and I can think of no better way for you to spend that $20 that’s been burning a hole in your pocket than right here, directly supporting an independent cartoonist who’s made political cartoons worth reading again.

Life Begins at Incorporation!

I have this book and it gives me all the boners.

HE LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT BECAUSE HE’S DECOMPOSING, YOU...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:22 -0400

HE LOST A LOT OF WEIGHT BECAUSE HE’S DECOMPOSING, YOU JERKS

theteratophile: As many of you will know (because I have...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:18:30 -0400

theteratophile:

As many of you will know (because I have bitched about it endlessly) I’m on jury duty, which involves a lot of sitting around with strangers, and today I got into it with an odious dudebro about the disproportionate ratio of sexualisation in comics. The example he brought up was Batman. Batman’s strong, muscular, wealthy, intelligent… everything a woman would love, right? Well, Batman’s many and varied personal issues aside, he’s still not sexualised the way Wonder Woman is. With that one Shortpacked! comic and The Hawkeye Initiative fresh in my head and my favourite twink-based tumblr providing a handy reference, this is what I produced as a counter argument.

THIS is what it would look like if Batman was really sexualised, and even this isn’t quite right because Batman’s outfit covers his whole body. (Dudebro is also lucky I got called before I had a chance to draw his package.)

I was going to clean it up before posting it but it was a 20 minute sketch and I only narrowly avoided sitting on a child porn trial this morning, so fuck it. ENJOY.

Walky and Joyce get married and have a kid and explain why...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:11 -0400

Walky and Joyce get married and have a kid and explain why it’s wrong and unnatural for that kid in Bobby’s class to have two dads and how they should pray for them both to learn to love vaginas instead, via Wonkette

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:38 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 14:38:02 -0400

monzo12782: The January 1985 issue of Comics Feature ran a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:52:04 -0400

monzo12782:

The January 1985 issue of Comics Feature ran a story on Marvel Productions, the company that produced the original Transformers cartoon. As part of this story, Comics Feature briefly interviewed Transformers story editors Bryce Malek and Dick Robbins, and included a piece of rare pre-production Transformers artwork. After learning of this story, I bought a copy of the magazine and made a high-resolution scan of the art, which is included in this post. This is not the first appearance of this particular piece of artwork, as it came into the hands of collector Alex Bickmore some years ago; you can see it here, where the corner isn’t covered up by part of a Pandamonium promotional painting.

Transcribed below is the Transformers-relevant part of the interview.

Dick Robbins and Bryce Malek are two story editors at Marvel. Robbins is a veteran writer from the days of dramatic radio and live TV, who since 1972 has worked almost exclusively in the animation field, and Malek is a young man who used to work in Hanna Barbera’s accounting department. It was Margaret Loesch who gave him his first writing assignment in 1980. Both Malek and Robbins came to Marvel in April of 1984, where they’ve been putting together the syndicated Transformers series ever since.

“It’s based on a toy line,” Malek says, “which a lot of Saturday morning shows are these days. They’re similar to Go-Bots and about three or four other different lines. They are robots you can manipulate into jet planes and automobiles and all kinds of things.”

The large number of characters in the Transformers series necessitated the hiring on of numerous freelance writers to get the scripts for the required number of episodes done on time.

“We normally would prefer to work with fewer writers,” Robbins explains. “If we get a good writer to do a good script for us, we know his or her subsequent scripts will be even better. But we’ve been under the gun on this one. It’s nice to have four or five writers for a series, but on this one we’ve had to have many more.”

“In this case we were required to get out two scripts a week,” Malek adds. “Twice as many as usual. We’ve had to work on several scripts simultaneously and some of our episodes are serialized. When we have a three-parter, it’s not easy farming the information out to the person who’s writing script #3 when you don’t know what’s happening with script #1. It can be pretty hectic and it gets very pressured.”

Regardless of the pressure, Robbins and Malek are enjoying working on Transformers. Because the show is syndicated, they have much less stringent restrictions on depicting violence and action then they would have if it was a network show. “We can do a lot more,” Malek confirms. “The violence is between the robots, so there’s nothing that kids can really emulate. You can destroy a robot and then fix him up tomorrow. This show’s got laser beams, crashes, explosions… it’s real violent and I think boys will love it!”

The entirety of the interview is available here. Enjoy this bit of history!

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Wed, 22 May 2013 03:26:08 -0400

mccoymedical: starfleetgrad: aileine: I couldn’t help...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:54:17 -0400

mccoymedical:

starfleetgrad:

aileine:

I couldn’t help myself.

hey look it got even BETTER

I CAN’T BREATHE SEND HELP

when i killed your brother i talked juuust liiiike thiiiiiiiiiiiis

Folks asked for a large version of this panel from today’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:48:11 -0400

Folks asked for a large version of this panel from today’s strip. I suspect I know why.

(Ethan.)

Conjunx Endura

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:42:37 -0400

Conjunx Endura:

how did this page not exist yet