Jonny Subconscious in print again!
My comic strip Jonny Subconscious is gracing the pages of Dangerous Ink magazine again. I just received my copy in the mail this morning. Issue #4 available at fine comic book stores and Borders stores all over North America.
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Jonny Subconscious #101
Good morning internets. Jonny Subconscious #101 is posted here for your viewing pleasure.
Criticism of Medias Energy Coverage
Howell Raines of Portfolio.com takes the news media task for behaving like the oil industries lap dog in a criticism of the medias energy coverage. The most chilling part of this article may not be the fact that an entire generation of reporters–weaned on Reaganomics–willfully follow the red herrings of corporate P.R. What is really terrifying is what the media is not reporting.
Oil executives generally believe in an updated version of the peak-oil theory, introduced in 1956 by geologist M. King Hubbert. It posits that because of oil-field depletion and the expense of production, American-oil-industry output will reach a maximum level and then start to decline. An updated version of Hubbert’s bell curve—which factors in the number of wells being drilled and refinery capacity—sets the year that the peak will be reached at 2020. If you’re getting a prime price for a product that will be harder to acquire in a few years and less valuable due to competition from other fuels, the smart play, obviously, is to divert every penny into profit while the Black Gold Casino is still open. To confuse the press and public, you set up several straw men to take the blame for the supply shortage that you’ve seen coming for a half-century: refinery capacity, environmental legislation, and the imaginary supply potential in undrilled portions of the continental shelf and ANWR.
The whole indictment is here and very much worth the read.
At least someone is talking sense
Al Gore gave a speech on energy policy today that calls for 100% of electricity to come from renewable sources in 10 years. That’s right. 100%. 10 years.
“Of course the greatest obstacle to meeting the challenge of 100 percent renewable electricity in 10 years may be the deep dysfunction of our politics and our self-governing system as it exists today. In recent years, our politics has tended toward incremental proposals made up of small policies designed to avoid offending special interests, alternating with occasional baby steps in the right direction. Our democracy has become sclerotic at a time when these crises require boldness. It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now.”
Mr. Gore has long been dismissed as a crackpot by the conservative/republican pundit machine and the smear campaigns have been distressingly effective. I still meet people every day that tell me Al Gore claims to have invented the internet. It’s that kind of sound-byte hypnosis that can pull teeth from the most noble of lions. Aside from being bullshit, it reveals the shallowness of the media-gorging masses.
Honestly. This guy has been pushing for technological advancement and environmental practicality for decades now and he’s still being painted as a ranting doomsayer. He won a fucking Nobel prize for Christ’s sake! They don’t hand those out to platitude-belching fakes.
Vote for the Vegan Zombie
Get over to Threadless and kick in a vote for Dennis Culver’s awesome Vegan Zombie T-shirt. If it gets the nod, he gets paid and we can all own it!
Jonny Subconscious #100
Strip number one hundred is posted RIGHT HERE!
If you’re anything like me you’re going “WOW! Two hundred strips! That took a little over two years! Doesn’t that idiot have anything better to do with his free time?”
Apparently not! I’ll let you in on a secret. The initial spark that fired this comic-canon was self-doubt. At some point everyone who sits down to create something feels it. It’s like the antithesis of your muse. It’s the voice in your head that tells you you’re not good enough. It’s the compulsive tug of distraction and the source of all reasons not to try. Sometimes it’s an irritating little peckerhead in a loin cloth who floats around your head and reminds you of your shortcomings. The only way to deal with the little bastard is to embrace him. It’s a little like kissing a shitzu. If you can keep it close enough to your head it will stop humping your leg.
Since I have yet to exercise my own personal anti-muse I am compelled to continue documenting his behavior. And since this little six-panel soap box has become a compulsion, you can look forward more! I hope you’ve enjoyed the strip so far and hope you’ll stick around to see where this thing goes. If you’re feeling nostalgic, take a walk down memory lane to where the whole thing started. Or have a look at some staff favorites here, here and here.
Thanks again for reading and stay tuned for the next hundred!
Jonny Subconscious #97
Howdy! Jonny Subconscious #97 is posted here. Astute Jonny-watchers and students of comic typography will note that there has been a change in font for Jonny Subconscious. This may seem like a small thing but it’s not. The change comes after months of agonized indecision. In the end it was the need for a tilde in the word piñata that finally forced our hand. The new font is called Wild Words and it is a product of the amazing people at Comic Craft. So there’s some news for you. Also, 3 more strips before we reach the 100 mark. Probably time to start thinking to something special for the centenial.
Jonny Subconscious #96
New Jonny Subconscious is posted here.
Jonny Subconscious #95
Jonny Subconscious #95 is live right here. Perceptive Jonny-watchers will notice that we have now hit the edge of the traditional “5-4-3-2-1″ countdown. That’s right, 5 more strips to go and we hit the ever-so-swanky 100 strip mark. Thanks for reading!
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