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Comic Riffs: November 22, 2009 - November 28, 2009
Black Friday: Cartoons we just can't discount
Having slept off the tryptophan, the turducken and the television marathons, today we are enduring Black Friday -- America's second biggest unofficial holiday behind the Super Bowl. The chief difference between the two biggest "non-Hallmark" holidays being: On Super...
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Michael Cavna
| November 27, 2009; 12:20 PM ET |
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The Political Cartoon
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Holiday helpings: Turkey Day cartoons we can be thankful for
Today, we will pass on mixing ACORN jokes with our chestnuts and stuffing. We will not stoop to gags about doomed turkeys wanting better "health care." And it won't be a day to trot out cheap one-liners about whether...
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Michael Cavna
| November 26, 2009; 3:00 PM ET |
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The Political Cartoon
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Mike Luckovich; Gary Varvel; Jeff Parker; Nate Beeler
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'RIFFS PICKS: the Five Cool Links we care about this minute
THE MORNING LINE: From sweet potatoes to sweet, sweet superheroic victory, here are Comic Riffs's Fave-Five links that pique our interest this minute... 5. SOMETHING FOWL THIS WAY COMES: New Yorker cartoonist Zachary Kanin offers hard-won travel tips for...
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Michael Cavna
| November 25, 2009; 9:05 AM ET |
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The Morning Line, This Riffster's Reading List
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The 'Riffs Interview: WES ANDERSON introduces his fantastic 'Mr. Fox'
Mr. Fox, voiced by George Clooney, left, and Mrs. Fox, voiced by Meryl Streep, are shown in a scene from "Fantastic Mr. Fox." (Fox Searchlight Pictures) ..... When I began a personal International Animation Tour of sorts a year...
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Michael Cavna
| November 24, 2009; 11:30 AM ET |
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Interviews With Cartoonists, The Animation
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Wes Anderson; Fantastic Mr. Fox; George Clooney; Meryl Streep; Jason Schwartzman; Bill Murray; Michael Cavna
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Break Out the Crayolas! It's the Official COLOR 'CUL DE SAC' Contest
For many readers, it's become a starkly black-and-white issue: They want to see "CUL DE SAC" in color.. So it's time to take matters into your own hands. Literally. As most of you know, Richard Thompson's Post-grown comic strip...
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Michael Cavna
| November 23, 2009; 11:05 AM ET |
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The Comic Strip
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Cul de Sac; Richard Thompson; Michael Cavna
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