Muskrat Ramblings

I began yesterday at 6 am London time (midnight, Central Standard Time), getting to Heathrow from Southwark, climbing aboard a Virgin Atlantic flight to Chicago, taking the World’s Most Depressing Bus from Chicago to Madison, popping quickly over to a friend’s house for the remnants of Memorial Day, and then getting to bed around midnight […]

I really like today’s Dork Tower. Which means it’ll probably get one or two comments at most over on the Dork Tower Syndicated LJ feed. So be it. I actually saw these sayings posted up on the wall of a sub sandwich shop on State Street the other day (with the inclusion of “Love Like […]

For some reason, teh interwebs have slowed to a crawl here at Chez Muskrat. I’m getting about a fifth to a quarter of the speed I used to get just a week ago. This has been going on for a few days now. “High-Speed Access”? I fear not. It’s amazing how soul-piercingly annoying it seems, […]

May 12, 2008 An open letter to the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) and The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) are profoundly concerned with the current Orphan Works legislation now being considered by both houses of Congress. Our two groups are comprised of […]

Anybody have a Secret Power that could get me in a position to have a picture taken with Jemaine at Sunday’s Flight of the Conchords show in Milwaukee? It’s be a hoot. Plus, there’d be much Dork Tower goodness in it for you, if you can do it. Separated at birth. Well, birth plus ten […]

Guess where I’m off to, tonight? Yup. I’m so pleased that I got tickets at the last minute that I had to do a ‘toon about it. Every now and then, an idea for a cartoon will come along that maybe one out of ten readers will get. I think/hope I made this one at […]

I was actually surprised how many folks didn’t know what “Rainbow Six Vegas 2” referred to in Monday’s cartoon. Never mind. I was happy with both it and today’s ‘toons. (Minor note: I went with the British “Maths” instead of the American “Math.” That’ll appear in the Director’s Cut, one day.) Now, if I could […]

This is a really long Rambling, so make sure to CLICK THROUGH to the full column, to see the Really Cool Pictures at the end! **** I’m down to the last few Munchkin Booty cards. It’s a position in any project that I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand, it clears up a […]

Stewart Heinz e-mailed me this, yesterday. John, Spotted the attached on Lake Mendota this evening. Cheers, Stew Why…why, LOOK: It’s…it’s a MUSKRAT! And it’s…rambling. Coolio. **** I needed that to cheer me up, because right now, it looks like I’ll be missing the GAMA Trade Show, in Las Vegas. It’s almost always a grand time, […]

Here it is. The end. Many of you should now see why I find Alex Robinson’s comics and graphic novels among the finest, most satisfying I’ve ever read. “Box Office Poison” and “Tricked” were both superb, and I was flattered when he asked me to write the intro to “BOP”, a collection of Box Office […]