Archive for November, 2008
Blog: November 1st, 2008Reason #6,214 why your retirement plan is completely worthless now: Bi-partisanship… The Dems call the Republicans fascists and Hitler, and the Republicans say the Dems make Hitlers possible. Progress!
TalkingPointsMemo has gotten its hands on this doozy…
The Republican Jewish Coalition is sending out a mailer in Pennsylvania that shows Barack Obama speaking in Germany earlier this [...]
Blog: November 2nd, 2008Ben Affleck on Keith Olbermann. Just wonderful…
I’m a big fan of Olbermann and political opponents of the current administration have a lot to thank him for. Unfortunately, he’s gotten more and more theatrical in his increasingly frequent and increasingly not-so-special “special comments.” This parody nails that. Really well observed.
Very funny.
– Steve
November 3rd, 2008
Blog: November 3rd, 2008For anyone looking for some of my comic book work…
IDW is publishing a 10th anniversary collection of my self-published comics series Astounding Space Thrills. It contains three of the original hard-to-find issues of the original series as well as the serialized convention comics series from 2003.
The collection is scheduled to come out December 29 and [...]
Blog: November 3rd, 2008Less than twenty-four hours until election day and two final Socks and barney strips to go.
About two years ago, I was asked by a local free daily newspaper to pitch a comic strip. That’s how Socks and Barney started. Since it was meant for a mainstream audience, the pitch was actually far less political and [...]
Blog: November 3rd, 2008Such sad news. On the eve of her grandson, who she raised through much of his young life, likely being elected President of the United States.
Blog: November 4th, 2008Some things man was simply not meant to know.
I’m am up at this ungodly hour to go vote. See you in a few hours.
– Steve
Blog: November 4th, 2008The great FiveThirtyEight.com makes is final projection…
Our model projects that Obama will win all states won by John Kerry in 2004, in addition to Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, Florida and North Carolina, while narrowly losing Missouri and Indiana. These states total 353 electoral votes. Our official projection, which looks at these outcomes [...]
November 4th, 2008
Blog: November 4th, 2008The last two strips are drawn. Popped over to a local coffee shop to finish them up.
The polls just closed here in Virginia where, if Obama wins, it’s an all-but certain that he’ll be the next President of the United States.
– Steve