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Words

Here is a conversation that I had with Noam Chomsky about the counterculture.  In my description of the piece, which prefaces our talk, I say that it is the complete transcript of our conversation, which it is not.  The complete transcript is about 9000 words and Truthdig won’t post anything more than 5000.  Still, it’s a start.  Sadly, one of the things that got chopped was Chomsky praising Bad Religion.  Dig it.

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The Missing Peace

by Mr. Fish on August 4, 2010 · 3 comments

in Words

Here’s something I just did for the Philadelphia CityPaper, which will be running my crap weekly now.  Dig it.

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1973

by Mr. Fish on June 29, 2010 · 0 comments

in Words

Here is a piece I did for Truthdig about me wanting to be Angela Davis when I grew up.  Dig it.

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It’s time for all you self-anointed liberal New-York-Times-reading oh so highly pedigreed academic assholes to lick my crystal balls – specifically, you who argued so confidently with me at parties and who, beginning in late 2006 and ending sometime in early 2009, wrote hundreds of angry emails to me and my various publishers insisting that I shut my mouth about why I believed we shouldn’t be standing in line to stick our empty heads up Barack Obama’s ass.  Ironically, this is the same exact group that bemoaned the idiocy of the Republicans who so willingly shoved their own empty heads up the ass of George Bush when he was throwing Lady Liberty around by her hair and demanding that she call him Daddy! Sounds like another case of the pot calling the kettle nigger.  When will we as a culture learn to predict that Froot Loops contains no fruit without first having to suffer the unnecessary abuse of eating enough bowls to pinwheel our eyes, rot our teeth and transform us into mouth-breathing fatsos whose hearts are too diseased to bleed anything but fluorescent cheez, literally and figuratively?

These are some of the cartoons that attracted many of the most violent demands to cease and desist from my readers, the earliest one depicting Brother Barack considering becoming a candidate back in 2006 and the others running through his campaign.  All were published prior to his winning.

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A Dog Goes Into a Bar…

by Mr. Fish May 17, 2010 Words

The best thing about being a political cartoonist is that everything will always suck – always! – and there will never be a shortage of God-awful bullshit for an artist such as myself to exploit for meaning or meaninglessness.  Sure, on occasion I can dive into a bucket of shit and [...]

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Prizewinning Fish

by Mr. Fish May 6, 2010 Words

I found out last Monday that the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) had given me this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning.  My wife, a graduate of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, had heard of both the society and the award before and reacted with some measure of glee at the [...]

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Mr. Fish in The Atlantic

by Mr. Fish April 21, 2010 Words
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The Atlantic is running a Mr. Fish illustration in its May 2010 Fiction Issue.  This is what it looks like:

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The Crack in the Liberty Bell has Hair

by Mr. Fish April 18, 2010 Words
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Here is a cartoon that I did about 22 years ago, back when I was but a wee lass with a paintbrush, a prostate and a crazy dream that one day I’d be able to blow a conch shell.  It’s funny how something so throw-away can suddenly become relevant with new political significance . . [...]

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The Resurrection

by Mr. Fish April 5, 2010 Words

A couple years ago I did a cartoon that offended practically everybody who looked at it.  Even the radicals who I knew – a rabble of loud-mouthed nihilists unlikely to blanch even at the inappropriate touching of their own puppy-holding, kitten-kissing inner children – were visibly irked by the drawing I showed them.  Posted on [...]

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Mr. Fish’s Interview with Graham Nash

by Mr. Fish March 26, 2010 Words

I did an interview for the Huffington Post last week with Graham Nash.  Click here to read all about it.

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