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Feed Your Eyeballs With Meanspirited Cartoons From A Deflated Spirit!

I was recently pointed to the fine, Ashcanesque political satire of Louis Netter. He has a new book out, Life's Too Short For Nuance (check out some of the amazing drawings), and a blog where he's posted the storyboards for his animated film Cakeaters, and pages from his sketch book -- quite a treat. He writes that his drawings are "at once engaging and provocative and, inexcusably cruel and petty..."

...My reportage drawings carry with them the weight of their weary creator. Drawing Americans in particular is an activity fraught with outrage and deep, penetrating sadness. We are at the end of at least one kind of world. If what is revealed in my drawings is true then we are screwed. If they are the product of my paranoid delusions then I guess we are safe. For now anyway.

The book can be purchased directly via PayPal or from Amazon.

Mental patient walks into a bar...

via Borowitz Report, 9-24-09:

Mental Patient Breaks into U.N., Gives Ninety-minute Speech

Breach of Security Under Review

An escaped mental patient broke into the United Nations yesterday, getting all the way to the General Assembly and delivering a ninety-minute speech.

A day after the stunning security breach, U.N. officials were still attempting to sort out how it was allowed to happen.

"We're trying not to play the blame game here," said U.N. spokesperson Carol Foyler. "The simple fact is, a legally insane man somehow got all the way to the podium, so how do we keep that from happening again?"

Theories abound as to how the mental patient made it to the U.N., with some suggesting that he may have escaped during a field trip to a county fair.

Reacting to the rambling and incoherent ninety-minute rant, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton echoed the feelings of many: "I was like, where's Kanye when you need him?"

Closings (Chelsea) 80

Closings (Chelsea) 80, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

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Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 188, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 187

Found Art (Chelsea): Unmonumental 187, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).