Toons Gone Feral » cartoonists http://toonstoonstoons.net and why shouldn't they? Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:14:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Cartoonist’s Heritage http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/04/the-cartoonsists-heritage/ http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/04/the-cartoonsists-heritage/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:03:31 +0000 admin http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=23 Remember the Middle Ages?  The banquet in the cold, smokey hall, the long rough table, the boar roasting on spits in the huge fireplace at the end of the hall.  The serving wenches with the platters of greasy meat.  Here’s your ettiquette tip:  There won’t be any napkins!  If you ever find yourself back in that hall, show some manners!  Greasy meat, greasy hands — don’t wipe your hands on your beard.  It’s a sure sign of a couthless hick from the sticks.  If you want to show ‘em you know how to do, that you’re a fellow with suave uptown castle manners, wipe them on the dogs.

But the feast — why are having feast?  The king has proclaimed a feast in honor of, guess who?  Why, the king of course.

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The bard will declaim in honor of the king.  For hours on end.  Look out.  If you sneeze during this speech, your head could fall off.  In that whole hall, there was one person who could call the king a fat little twerp.  Only the fool could tell the truth.

And who is he now?  He’s the comedian.  He’s the cartoonist.  Want to know what’s really going on?  Don’t look at the front page.  Go straight to the cartoon.

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