SlowpokeBlog

I found this cartoon trickier to create than usual, partly because I was too dismayed by Molly Ivins' death to feel like coming up with anything funny, and partly because it's challenging to do an obituary cartoon without lapsing into the well-worn clichés of daily editorial cartoons (e.g., the deceased arriving at the pearly gates). I hope no one else prominent that I like dies anytime soon, so I'm not faced with the dilemma of drawing another obit.

The humorists I've portrayed here comprise only a partial list of those I would include in the Political Satirist Hall of Fame. I'm aware that I left out a lot of people. My point is merely that Molly Ivins deserves to be in the canon, yo. Also, I realize Mort Sahl is still alive, unlike everyone else in the cartoon (except for Future Mr. and Mrs. P). But he warranted a mention. While Googling for pictures of him, I came across this great Time cover from 1960.

In completely unrelated news, I had a weird dream last night that R. Crumb had opened a chain of pizzerias. They were called, appropriately, "R. CRUMB'S," with the sign lettering done in his plump, old-school comix style. I was on my way to one located in a food court. Launching a pizza chain is probably among the last things Crumb would ever do, but you know, I would go.