Sunday Reads: Manchinland
Posted: June 13, 2021 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |6 Comments
Y’all know why that cartoon is especially funny to me…
Starting with cartoons from AAEC:




And from Cagle:
My next pro-vaccination cartoon for https://t.co/yiLXlCynIi and my Artist In Residency @ASU_Transborder ! Please share! And get vaccinated! With a big assist from @juncocanche pic.twitter.com/8weVFHEeWN
— Mexican Judge (@laloalcaraz) June 12, 2021
In cartoon news:
No prize was awarded in Editorial Cartooning.
— The Pulitzer Prizes (@PulitzerPrizes) June 11, 2021
Here's my statement as @AAEC_Cartoonist President about the @PulitzerPrizes refusal to give the award to any cartoonist this year: https://t.co/buOMVwC5K2 pic.twitter.com/GjivsnVWqm
— Jen Sorensen (@JenSorensen) June 11, 2021
This would have been big news in any year, much less after a year as difficult as 2020, so again—congratulations to everyone!
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) June 11, 2021
In spite of all of this, the Committee of the @PulitzerPrizes refused to name a winner of their coveted prize in this category 5/https://t.co/YYmmcgNS8M
First and foremost, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists would to congratulate Marty Two Bulls Sr @M2Bulls, Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz, and Ken Fisher aka @RubenBolling, on being named finalists for this year's Pulitzer Prize in the category of Editorial Cartooning 1/ pic.twitter.com/4ty2duWp5M
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) June 11, 2021
Congratulations to the three finalists who had been carefully selected by a panel of judges that included several editorial cartoonists and previous @PulitzerPrizes winners. This was @RubenBolling's 2nd nomination for his brilliant weekly political strip "Tom the Dancing Bug" 2/ pic.twitter.com/tNhbRioX4q
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) June 11, 2021
This was also the second nomination (two years in a row!) for @laloalcaraz, who the judges cited for "cartoons drawn from an unabashedly specific Latino point of view that target the hearts and consciences of Americans." 3/ pic.twitter.com/FDLvX9tjtE
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) June 11, 2021
Finally, a huge congratulations to Marty Two Bulls Sr., for his "innovative and insightful cartoons that offer a Native American perspective on news events." @M2Bulls is the first Native American cartoonist to be nominated for an award in the history of the @PulitzerPrizes. 4/ pic.twitter.com/VbiQtifUge
— AAEC (@AAEC_Cartoonist) June 11, 2021
(men avoiding therapy meme) the pulitzer board will give the cartoon prize to nobody rather than give it to one of three alt-leaning finalists
— Non Fungible Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow) June 11, 2021
In other tweets:
Garland's DOJ filed a brief Monday night defending barring 700k #disabled Puerto Ricans–AMERICANS–from accessing SSI. This is an egregious act that contravenes the #ADA.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) June 12, 2021
Puerto Ricans are Americans. Biden needs to defend their rights. https://t.co/pUl2vXHi3l via @MSNBC
Personhood according to the United States Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/kAkrFJQUiB
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) June 11, 2021
if only Colin Kaepernick had jerked off during the National Anthem instead of kneel he might have been given a second chance too https://t.co/vuf0Tk8cBv
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) June 10, 2021
Two Viking relatives reunited after 1000 years – DNA mapping of skeletons enabled archaeologists to determine a relation. One died in Oxford, UK c. 20 years old, the other died in Denmark c. 50 years old.
— Dig Monkeys (@DigMonkeys) June 11, 2021
Article: https://t.co/8dTV9PVLZ1@CatJarman @EarlyScotland #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/aDpTsF4cBh
This is Rare sighting of swimming feather star, they feed by filtering small particles of food from sea water with the feather like arms. Their tube feet are covered with sticky mucus that tracks any food that is floating around them. Crinoids are marine animals that make up the pic.twitter.com/uX6etqoSjT
— ncsukumar (@ncsukumar1) June 11, 2021
This is an open thread…
Wonderful cartoons today. Thanks JJ.
Very cute!!