How say you, kossacks?
We have, in ericlewis0's Animal Nuz, our very own kossack cartoonist.
Eric brings Animal Nuz to the pages of Daily Kos every Saturday, with a just a pinch of soupçon with every episode.
Have you read the latest installment of Animal Nuz?
If not, I'm happy to report that Daisy the Happy Nuz Hound has been re-instated! (just like our friend on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann)
Never heard of Animal Nuz? Meet me below the fold for the down and dirty...
Animal Nuz is the news seen through the prism of the political cartoon.
Political cartoons are as American as apple pie (but don't tell Robert Wuhl that I told you that!).
How many kossacks know that the reason (at least the major component of the reason) why the Democratic Party has a donkey as an icon, is because of a political cartoonist by the name of Thomas Nast?
"A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion,"Harper’s Weekly,
January 15, 1870, p.48. Wood engraving
The donkey first appeared as a symbol for the Democratic Party in the 1830s when the Democrat Andrew Jackson was President. The donkey continued in American political commentary as a symbol for the Democratic Party thereafter. Thomas Nast built upon this legacy and used his extraordinary skill to amplify it. For a time, the rooster also served as the symbol of the Democratic Party, but gradually the donkey replaced it in popular usage after the 1880s. Nast first used the donkey as a symbol for the Democratic Party in "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" published January 15, 1870, in Harper's Weekly to comment on Northern Democrats (nicknamed Copperheads) dealings with Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War.
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Cartoonists have long been associated with some of the sharpest and wittiest political commentary in our nation.
Animal Nuz is a worthy addition to the panalopy of American Political Cartoons.
JekyllnHyde has been diarying using political cartoons for some time now, and we've all seen the finely honed political weapon that colored pencils can be in those wonderful and informative diaries.
I am happy to report the upcoming inclusion of Animal Nuz on the pages of Daryl Cagle's Politcal Cartoonist Index (the biggest amalgamation of political cartoonist/cartoons that I am aware of).
I urge you to vote in my poll and petition our leadership to put the Animal Nuz on the Front Page on Saturdays - where it most certainly belongs!
UPDATE - sorry that gobbledeegook in the poll should read as:
Yes - I ♥ Animal Nuz and it belongs on the Front Page
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mangled my heart...
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UPDATE II h/t to Observerinvancouver for pointing out this:
I have one huge regret, though. I wish Eric had come up with his Official 2010 Midterm Elections baseball cap about two months earlier.
http://www.dailykos.com/....
the linked Animal Nuz strip shows the following text on the baseball cap noted by Observerinvancouver:
Democrats Cut Taxes for 95% of the USA
Bill Maher, on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, said exactly this. (paraphrased)
Why didn't the Democrats run on this, "The Democrats cut taxes on 95% of Americans. The Republicans ALL VOTED NO on these Taxes Cuts". What would have been so hard about that?