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Comment on Oregonian interview by Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:41:22 +0000

Thanks for the very kind comment!

Comment on Oregonian interview by Lockwood

Lockwood — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:06:50 +0000

It’s been a point of pride, when I pass along one of your pieces, to note “Jen is one of the best of Oregon’s excellent political cartoonists,” so I’m sorry to see you go. However, despite all the things I love about this state, I understand many people simply can’t deal with six or more months of gloom. Have fun in Austin, which I’ve never visited, but have heard plenty of good things about… a blue island in an ocean of red.

Comment on This Week’s Cartoon: “The Bully Rights Movement” by Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:19 +0000

Anne, I think they’re getting the piss-shivers (I’ll have to use that more often) because some people are shocked — shocked! — by hearing “unladylike” jokes from women. I hope you mention the phrase “bowel-voiding dogs” just as they’re eating lunch.

Comment on This Week’s Cartoon: “The Bully Rights Movement” by Anne S

Anne S — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:58:55 +0000

I’ve always thought homophobia was strongly rooted in misogyny.

Comment on This Week’s Cartoon: “The Bully Rights Movement” by Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:47:26 +0000

I swear that the wall-eyed anchorcreature in the first panel reminds me of some of the TV people I met when I was an inkstained wretch!

On a serious note: bullying of gay people is not only repugnant and disgusting, it’s also a danger to straight people who may mistakenly be identified as gay because they seem to some knuckledragger insufficiantly manly-man. Like me, they might say “lady” or “young woman” instead of the nouns “bitch” or “pussy.” A few years ago in Pensacola some teens out cruising for gay-bashing murdered a straight guy whose mistake was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it’s not just an issue for only gay people to be worried about, it’s about any of us who could be a victim of brutal idiocy.

Comment on This Week’s Cartoon: “The Bully Rights Movement” by Anne S

Anne S — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:36:31 +0000

Recently I realized that most dudes of the male persuasion not only learn visually, but process spoken language visually, which is why the guys at work are almost uniformly so very much more appalled at my off-color jokes than I am at theirs. They honestly can’t not picture things. Thus, unappealing person + inappropriate sexual situation = piss shivers.

“more and more, it seems like he’s a human hurricane leaving a trail of unemployed people, bowel-voiding dogs and traumatized gay teens in his wake.”

I’m going to hand them this blog entry. Should be awesome. Might wipe out a whole department.

Comment on This Week’s Cartoon: Daddyshack by ROBERT

ROBERT — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:59:06 +0000

WHAT WAR ON WOMEN, STOP WATCHING THE CNN MACHINE THERE R NO JOBS HERE IN CALIFORNIA CUZZ OF JERRY BROWN.

Comment on The First Order of Change by Thoas

Thoas — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:54:20 +0000

No “The Cafka’” as an akronym is not recommendable either. Sounds rather kafkaesk. Schultz, Foster, and Watterson also signed with their real names.
And I cannot imagine someone like Leonardo Da Vinci using a nick name. real artists sign with their real names.

Comment on The First Order of Change by Jen Sorensen

Jen Sorensen — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:07:30 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. To answer the question about where the name “Slowpoke” came from, it was the title of a comic book I published right after college. It referred to my reluctance to join the rat race, and the pointlessness of the constant push to do everything faster. I kept the name for my weekly strip, which wasn’t terribly political at first. Over the years, the comic evolved, and I’m not sure the name fits anymore (although I am still a slowpoke of sorts). Just using my name feels more “me” than anything now. We’ll see.

Comment on The First Order of Change by Roger Bloyce

Roger Bloyce — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:43:50 +0000

I agree that both the writing and drawing here are consistently excellent, as I’m reminded every time I open the newly revised Sunday Review of the New York Times and see the first regular cartoon in the publication’s history, a redundant, poorly drawn, and often trivial political commentary. Slowpoke by any name would have been a far better choice to liven up the Gray Lady.