the science project #51

this episode, titled "i swear, it was like this when i found it" was drawn in late february 2010. i thought this one up after my dad sent me an e-mail with political cartoons, all leaning toward the right. i am more liberal than conservative, so i usually read/watch/listen to more liberal media. these cartoons, however, gave me an interesting and intelligent view of how people view obama's first term (sans the limbaugh-esque sound bites that melt my brain cells). initially, the idea was to show that obama really hasn't made good on the promises he made and we elected him for (one being the removal of our troops in the middle east). then i thought, "what if the Staples' easy button was real or obama believed that it was and was upset that it wasn't working?" my initial thought was that obama wasn't going to understand that, because it's a toy, it wasn't working. that didn't make sense though because he's not an idiot. but the last president was and so, being a liberal, i couldn't just take a shot at obama when george w. bush is soooo much more fun to fuck with.

i hope you like it.

j

the science project #21

titled "Road Trip", this episode was done in late february 2008. i don't know if you noticed a theme here, but i (like many others) think gwb3 is an idiot. and because he's an idiot, he's easy to poke fun at. but why should that stop me?

this idea was more of a fantasy than a joke. dubbyah went to africa for something and i wished they left him there, but i knew he'd only find his way back.

the science project #4

some of you may be wondering why i'm not talking about The Dregs yet, and that's a good question. i wanted to show you how all of this developed in the time line that it occurred in for me. so, i'll get to The Dregs. but not yet.

Aug. 2007: this was a very interesting episode. after realizing that i needed to expand the comic strip's focus, one of topics i felt i was missing out on was political humor. for some reason, however, i thought of the ape from the novel "ishmael" by daniel quinn, which i had to read before starting my freshman year at elon college. in the novel, ishmael and his pupil discuss many philosophical topics, so i thought "who better than to ironically discuss political topics, than a gorilla?" i don't think i ever gave the gorilla a name, but i always thought of him as ishmael.

that being said, this was done soon after our former president g. w. bush III publicly backed the creationist theory in the news. unfortunately being of greater intelligence than a former world leader, i found this to be pretty disappointing to hear. what i also found was that g-dubyah, to me, looked like a monkey. at that moment, all the pieces for a good political comic seemed to be in order. i was wrong. or at least i told it wrong.

in this episode, the gorilla sees the newspaper headline on the bottom of his cage and asks the smaller ape in the cage next to him what he thought of the president's disbelief in their common ancestry. the gorilla continues the discussion, only to get poop thrown at him by his neighbor. when he looks his assailant, the small ape looks like gwb3.

i don't dislike this episode as much as i wonder what i was doing and where i thought this was going to lead. oh well. things get weirder than this.