So...who the heck is still around on a Friday evening/night? What are you up to right now? And why are you still here?

Today's Dork Tower is up...later than I'd have wished. Friday afternoons are dead times, online, and comments few and far between. Sigh. I suppose everyone's got something better to do than cruise the nets, fihing for 'toony goodness...



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Speaking of reusing art over...andover...and over again...

Friday Phone-It-In

In which Bob Gorrell NOT ONLY shows what Cut-N-Paste can do in Photoshop, but also ressurects a joke that was stale back in 1996!

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Bob Gorrell Creators Syndicate Inc. Jul 18, 2008 EditorialCartoonists.com

"Disinformation Superhighway." Gah.

Similarly, here's another joke that's NEVER been done before:

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Bob Gorrell Creators Syndicate Inc. Jul 10, 2008 EditorialCartoonists.com

Next up: a very clever gag from the Carter years...

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I haven't been posting the cartoons up on my MySpace page, recently, because people tell me MySpace is playing silly buggers with the links (I simply cut-n-paste from here), and I haven't had time to look into it more. Not entirely sure why they SHOULDN'T work. But I pulled out of Suicide Girls (man, there must be a better way of phrasing that) after reformatting every entry to their standards just became too much of a hassle.With luck, that won't have to happen with MySpace. I'm just not sure when I'll get time to figure out what the problem is.

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Look! Look! (Or rather "Listen! Listen!") I'm a Comic Book Expert! Grin.

Just in case you weren't awake at 7:10 am this morning or, indeed, listening to WOLX Radio, Madison, I was on-air, pretending to sound like I knew what I was talking about when it comes to the new Batman movie.

Actually, it didn't come out too badly. I'm not a big fan of doing this kind of thing, and, honestly, my heart was more into the Watchman trailer than The Dark Knight, but Fletch is a pal, and it came out almost like I knew what I was talking about.

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Last week I found out what it was like to be booed by 7,500 people. That was actually quite fun.

This week I found out what it's like to lose quite a large sum of money. This wasn't so fun.

Lee Enterprises - owners of my old newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal (it's a bit more complicated than that, but that'll do), just sent out their quarterly earnings. I had a bit of stock in the company from an old Employee Purchase Plan.

Anyway, that stock, which was once up to about $50 a share, plummeted to $3 over the last quarter, having dropped 90% in the last year alone.

My fault. I left the money in those stocks because I thought Lee Enterprises Upper Management were Ruthless Bastards Who Only Cared About The Bottom Line. What I forgot to take into account was, like much of the newspaper industry's upper management, they were STUPID Ruthless Bastards Who Only Cared About The Bottom Line.

Newspapers. Yeah. THEY'RE the future.

Honestly, what was I thinking?

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Plus, the Subaru, which just had a new starter put in last year, was towed back to the garage this morning.

Why? well, ANOTHER starter, apparently, needs to be put in. Four hundred buck.

"But you just put in a new one last January," I explained, as patiently as I could after discovering I was already quite a bit poorer than I thought I was this time, last week.

"Yeah...the warranty just ran out."

I believe I shall stay in, this weekend...whimpering or drinking, Haven't really made my mind up, yet...SOMETHING self-destructive...

I've got it! Cartooning!