about me, cartooning
I Like Money Just got paid for a freelance job. Always nice, but more so in the post-holiday we-so-broke season.
Author: kevinwmoore
about me
I started 2010 determined to finish up Wanderlost and get started on a graphic novel. It’s also the year I stopped cartooning about politics. At the time I had studio space outside my home, allowing me to concentrate on my work without distractions posed by piles of laundry and stacks of crusty dishes. I managed … Read More “End Year Wrap Up” »
politics
Nothing to really say about the Julian Assange rape allegations. Either his accusers speak the truth, making him guilty; or the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence communities have concocted this mess, making him innocent. It is even possible for both to be true, as disgusting as that sounds all around. (It would make the basis for … Read More “All Heat, No Light” »
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Last week President Obama flew to India to sell them $5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes — the sixth biggest arms deal in U.S. history. As Jim Hightower points out, this deal doesn’t do much to boost American employment (despite administration hopes), but it does help escalate the arms race India runs with … Read More “This Week in War Mongering” »
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While researching for a graphic novel I am developing, I came across an interesting article by Tony Thomas, an African-American scholar and folk musician, answering the question Why Black Folks Don’t Fiddle. Every decade over the past century has seen a revival movement, sometimes spurring newer forms of traditional-modern hybrids, most famously the Folk Music™ … Read More “Racial Politics of Music Revivalism” »
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Despite the addition of 151K new jobs in the U.S. in October (and 1.1 million jobs since January), unemployment numbers still suck. Nearly 15 million people are out of work and actively looking, and the unemployment rate, which remained steady at 9.6 percent, has been relatively flat since May. A broader measure of unemployment, which … Read More “Third Party, Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?” »
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This pic taken at the Guitar Blog illustrates a recent phenomenon that I have been trying to understand — namely, the sudden hipness of the mandolin, ukelele and the banjo. Not objecting by any means to the new fad, I have always loved those instruments and have thought they deserve wider appreciation. I just wonder … Read More “Mandolins and Banjos” »
about me, cartooning
This summer has marked the longest period of zero cartooning I have had since college almost 20 years ago. Seriously, I have not drawn ONE SINGLE CARTOON since June. Doodles on napkins don’t count. In fact, I don’t count the flip-book animation example I created for a class I taught on the subject at a … Read More “Back to Normal, Coming Soon” »
politics
Glenn Greenwald defends Alan Simpson — not for what he said about cow teats, but for being the only one on President Obama’s Deficit Reduction Commission to speak to the public. It’s a good, enraging read, but let me skip to the end (not counting Greenwald’s inevitable updates): Leaving aside the fact that Social Security … Read More “Third Rail, Sacred Cow, etc, etc….” »