Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 28, 2012

The war on Easter is a Fox News front.

The media is the leading criminal of the English language, not the guardian it should be.

How about a war on war?

Yep you can always tell it is Christmas — Easter eggs are in the shops…

Hey Fox! Halloween is coming up!

Richard, I’ll talk about it…..Let’s get the Hell out of there yesterday….

fox news is not journalism. they have to fill 24 hours somehow.

I find the MOST interesting thing is that all these “WARS” are declared by politicos that NEVER got within a hundred miles of an ACTUAL War’s front lines.

If they HAD they’d be far more careful using it, even metaphoricaly.

How about the war on America? 50,000 gun deaths a year, 12,000 of which are deliberate homicides. Five or six assault rifle attacks since the Sandy Hill incident.

I just took some kids to see a movie— Rise of the Guardians. Great animated artwork, hokey story. Anyway, childhood heroes and villains were represented as Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost, Sand Man, Pitch Black. We start early with giving the kids stories and metaphorical lessons to draw on. The usual concept of believing in fantasy was the important thing for the kids to take away from the movie, Rise of the Guardians. I guess I can’t put it down too much, it is an important part of our culture, and it has been important historically speaking.

At the same time, I think perhaps those who read the bible and understand all of the concepts of it in a literal way, may be missing a larger picture. Maybe we don’t have to see God as an old man with a long white beard anymore. We are all grown up now. But the little ones continue to need the Easter Bunny and so the circle continues…

I think Fox is too much like a Disney-themed organization to really make a big deal out of Passover, although they say they are all about our Judeo-Christian country.

The war on egg hunts (ala Oscar Wilde): the pursuit of the inedible by the unspeakable!

What, no ammo to spare for St Valentine’s Day?

How are priests like bunnies? No cheating now…

We get it Gary: You dislike Fox and the right-wing, tea partiers, etc. Move on

There is a very real war on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Well, at least Cupid is resting easy.

I guess it is a mixed blessing for artists to have such instant feedback in a comments section. They can immediately hear some who appreciate their work. They also hear from some who don’t seem to understand how long it takes to do a comic strip and the way story arcs work in a published newspaper… Since Fox News is around 24/7, and is only a puppet for the GOP, I will never tire of someone criticizing them. After all, Fox certainly has time to get their point across, whereas it doesn’t take long to read a comic strip once a day and the artist does have to take a break sometimes so a comic strip isn’t published daily…

@thebird55Just saw your post of 12-17 asking if I had a permit.

Do now! Thanks.

FYI Tom Ryan is still going (at 86!), and there may be a new (very limited edition), collection published this year or next.

Are the yahoos REALLY still listening to Fox ‘news’? How many lies do they need to hear before…never mind, they are republicans. There is no such thing as ‘too many lies’.

War on MLK first, then Presidents, then Valentines, then war on Saint Patty, then war on Easter!

Wait, forgot war on Mardi Gras!

“‘the trick-or-treater of today is the socialist of tomorrow.”"

That was funny, made me LOL.

…And the Faux News adventure continues…

…odd that Christianity names its most solemn holiday after a pagan Goddess…..

So… Let’s put the War back in “War Department” (Bowdlerized in the forties to ‘Defense’ Department – HA!)

Then since Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is leaving Congress, let’s all urge President Obama to take his advice and create a Department of Peace, and offer him the Cabinet job! It’s gonna be much harder than War, but well worth doing, don’cha think?

“Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.” — Salvor Hardin, Mayor of Terminus (Isaac Asimov, Foundation)

I vaguely remember people trying to fight the war on war, specifically the Vietnam War, many years ago. That was a major time for fighting the war on war…

I am enjoying this particular arc very much. Great job per usual, GT!

calimesajim said, about 6 hours ago

This cr^p and fiscal cliff fiasco make good effort to divert attention from BENGHAZI COVER-UP!!!

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Looks like. I noticed Hill found it safe to recover from her 3 week coma for which she never found severe enough to go to a hospital that has real medical records. How convenient.

“Taking the easy ride, ehh Garry?Dare you to draw one – just one – picture of the great prophet. Come on big man, taking on the moral majority and christian believers. Just one of Mohammed. Just one.”

Would YOU do it? If you’re so brave, then why don’t YOU do it here? Using your real name. And your phone number.

Come on big man. Just one of Mohammed. Just one.

“I’m just an open-minded fairly well educated person who keeps an open mind to all news and ….”

B-b-bwahahahahahahahaha!

Oddly, I just heard a ponderable line on “Law and Order SVU”: “Whoever rants the loudest on the Internet wins.”

Guess it depends on what you think “wins” means.

Sad but true