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Thursday is Thirst Day

Get it? It's a play on words. Let's see what the Internets have to offer today.

Picture above from Abhay Khosla's Bram Stoker's Dracula, of which you can now also read chapter two and chapter three. It's a strange coincidence that he started a new comic just as soon as I finally got around to reading his last one. Could it be that he is secretly monitoring my reading habits? Probably, yes.

Speaking of reading comics online on these here Internets, yesterday I also finally read Inio Asano's Nijigahara Holograph, a fairly awesome manga about... about a lot of stuff, really. I don't know how to describe it. Wait, I do: It's 292 pages long.

My erstwhile SUPERBLOG!! partner Uncle Sammy very rarely clicks on links because he is an enemy of the Internets, but he'll click on this one: Conservapedia! Yes, it's Wikipedia for rightwing nutjobs. Beyond bizarre.

Superboy says ‘Know Your Country!’ Kids hate Scandinavian Sigrid because she eats kottbuller! (It's köttbullar, idiots!)

YouTube: Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue Part One - animated drug prevention television special introduced by George Bush Sr. (There's some further info on Wikipedia but sadly not on Conservapedia.)

Just sad: I love you, failed viral marketing campaign for Beth Cooper!

Michael Jackson Public Domain Countdown (also): Only 70 years and 141 days to go! Obviously copyright laws are completely sane and don't need to be reformed at all.

Goddamn Those Lazy Classic Disney Animators!

Did you know several of the "classic" Disney movies, like Robin Hood and The Jungle Book and what have you, contain animation sequences recycled from other Disney movies? Check the YouTube clip above to have your eyes opened and possibly your childhood ruined.

What do you say? Pretty cool or pretty sad? Or both?

Via Sekventiellt.se (in Swedish).

Dylan Horrocks Draws Piracy

Cartoonist Dylan Horrocks (whose Hicksville rules) posted this image a couple of days ago, and today a wider audience than probably ever was exposed to his work, when The Pirate Bay put it on their website.

Scans of Hicksville are sadly not available via TPB just now, but you can download the Horrocks-written Hunter: The Age of Magic.

Now We Can Truly Fuck Popeye Up

Alright! It's a new year* and it couldn't have started better - Popeye just entered the public domain!:

Elzie Segar, the Illinois artist who created Popeye, his love interest Olive Oyl and nemesis Bluto, died aged 43 in 1938 and an EU law that protects the rights of authors for 70 years after their death is about to end.
The copyright expiry means that, from Thursday, anyone can print and sell Popeye posters, T-shirts and even create new comic strips, without the need for authorisation or to make royalty payments, the Times reports.

Free Popeye money, bitch! But the trademark is still active so we can't sell stuff using the name "Popeye" or his likeness. So let's call him Snopp-Pie instead! If we can't be fren's we'll be emenies!

*2009

Fun #21: Top Ten Superheroes

1. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
They dance and have fun together. Wait, those are not your friends, Spider-Man! Don't you recognize Dr Ock and that green fellow from the movies? WATCH OUT!

2. Noel Gallagher
Noel was good back when he was grey but when he turned green he and his stupid band started sucking. That fucker!

3. My Little Martian Manhunter

4. My Little Green Lantern

Exactly the same as the manhunter (shown above) (in #3) except this one is a lantern!

5. The League of Batmans

One Batman is good, but 4 Batmen are unbeatable! 5 is even better. Therefore, they are #5 on this list. WATCH OUT!

6. Buttercup

Seen here with her skeleton outside and inside her body. Buttercup could be on the Cartoon Girls I Wanna Nail list but that would be creepy and disgusting because she is clearly portrayed as pre-pubescent.

7. Dr Stwange

Here he is in his civilian identity. That fucker!

8. McFarlane Toys' Cornboy

He is trying to get into Sporty Spice's pants. Korean Hunk wonders who the sexiest spice girl was. (He's voting for Baby Spice.) Error message here.

9. Wonder Woman

Not so wondrous here with AIDS, is she? No, AIDS is not fun. Not a laughing matter. Makes you think.




10. (TIE) Galactus and Dr Doom

Protecting the ears of America! I remember how Doom (AKA Dr Door) stole Galactus' energy and whatnot in Secret Wars. Which was an awesome, awesome comic book. I am old and I suck.

Those are the top ten superheroes in America today and for all time. Please note that Pepe le Moko was trying to worm his way into this perfect post while I wrote it and he almost managed because he contributed some GREAT words (mostly "That fucker"). Thank you, Pepe!!

Uncle Sam Took a Hand!

Election Hangover! These so-called links are still funny or interesting but they'll cease to be so very soon.

You're probably wondering: Has President Obama Been Assassinated Yet?

Video: Cindy McCain Claims She’s ‘Just Like Any Other Female Human’. In six months, nobody will remember Cindy McCain. She'll join Tipper Gore and the rest on the failed-First-Lady garbage heap. But she'll still be richer and more powerful than you.

Comics: Steve Brodner's Red, NY and Blue. That Brodner is a caricaturist of immense talent fo shizzle.

More comics: Uncle Sam vs the Mad Poet. Rhyme ruins nation! Above pic taken from this link.

Pat Oliphant cartoon: Ready to rejoin the world? Ha ha!

Wikipedia (not election related): Because of Michael Crichton's death, I found out about the small penis rule (also, I watched Crichton's fun Westworld and its dumb sequel Futureworld. I recommend the first one because it is fun but not the latter, because it is dumb.)

Plus and also, here is a Peter Arno cartoon I like: Old Whittington!

Tomorrow: More asbestos! More asbestos!

Best Wikipedia Sabotage Ever

From the Trivia section of the Wikipedia page for Professor Ratigan:

In SuperOobi and His Amazing Friends (Star Wars) Episode VI: Return to the Autobiogeographerm, Shark Skywalker's father, Ratigan Skywalker living in the fiery hot planet, Mustafar. In addition, He battle his son. Sir Shark slice-a-dice his two legs and right arm and he's burning by the fire.

Everybody Loves Al, Part 2

Speaking of The Simpsons, here is Alan Moore, flanked by Art Spiegelman and Dan Clowes from the episode "Husbands and Knives". I was gonna blog a lot about that when it aired last November, but I don't think I ever did? And now it's too late. Why is SUPERBLOG!! always six months behind the curve?

I've never blogged about Spiegelman but there was a post about The Man Who Stole Ghost World back in 2005. (SUPERBLOG!!'s salad days, if you will.)

Anyway, this was supposed to be about Alan Moore so here he is meeting Death.

And here's another spot-on drawing of Alan Moore, part of a slightly larger online humor comic about (if memory serves) the creation of something called The Sinestro Corps (that link's just to a Wikipedia entry about the group itself) that I tried to find but couldn't. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough? I only gave it a couple of minutes. I'm a busy man and that's all the time I have. But I did watch Superman: The Animated Series the other day, and there he was:



Sinestro, I mean. Also, I remember that character from an issue or two of John Byrne's run on Wonder Woman, which I bought every issue of because I was a huge Byrne fan back then. Even though I didn't enjoy it. I was just waiting for it to become good, you know, because I grew up with his X-Men and Fantastic Four and stuff, and Next Men was good. At least I thought so back then. Was that around the time Byrne started sucking, or was I just developing a more discerning taste?

This has been a warm-up for my forthcoming blog post Everybody Hates Watchmen. I'm not kidding. Watch the skies.

Ann Stalkley

Lots to do fun starts here with you and me

Look up there. Way up high.

Mr Magoo

Today we watch Mr Magoo.

Drinky Crow in a Metaphor for Life and Work

Or maybe it's a parable.

Satan's Workshop

Hello SUPERBLOG!! fans. Today is Another Day Christmas in Sweden. It's a useless day, as is the 25th. Swedes celebrate Christmas on the 24th and then we basically do nothing until New Year's Eve except shop.

And what we do on Christmas Eve is give each other presents (well, most people. I don't) and eat ham and (wait for it) watch Disney cartoons on television. Really. See, back in the olden days Swedish TV was controlled by Evil Socialists and the only TV shows that were acceptable for kids were, like, low-budget Czech animation. Except on Christmas Eve, when the Walt Disney Christmas Show was aired! And thus was born a truly pathetic tradition, which still lives on in three million sad Swedish households.

The coolest part of the Xmas Show is linked above, courtesy of YouTube. It features talking dolls, a Jolly Fat Man, anus-drilling, Charlie Chaplin, offensive stereotypes and Schubert music. And that fucking chessboard paint has freaked out generations of Swedish kids. Witchcraft!!