Marmaduke Can Vote: If Marmaduke Went Political...: July 2006

Friday, July 28, 2006

Marm Drove Home

So this is how the next coupla weeks are going to go down:

July 30 - August 5: Bill will be in charge of the site. You may remember him from, well, the last time he guested here.

August 6 - August 12: Pete will be updating. As I've explained already, Pete and I used to blog together back in the days when we all thought Bush might be a one-term president.

I will return on August 14, posting live from Los Angeles and, for the first time in MCV history, from a Macintosh computer. Who knows, maybe I'll start using that obnoxious "Chicago" font they used on the old school iPods.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Marmaduke Is Not Green

Monday, July 24, 2006

Full Color Feature!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Thank you once again for coming back to the site. Specifically thank you to those of you who read the site who are not merely friends of mine clicking on my profile link. I thank you for reading the site not out of obligation.

On Sunday morning, I will be leaving town to travel across the country from beautiful Richboro, Pennsylvania, to Los Angeles. Upon my arrival in LA, I will continue updating this blog. In the meantime, I have asked two friends to fill in for me. You may remember Bill, who took the reins last time I was away in May. He will be returning for one week.

Joining Bill on this guest strip period will be Peter Shadzik. Peter was responsible for my big start in the blogosphere when he recruited me to write for his site, Kick The Leftist. Now that it's been a while since KtL gracefully bowed out, I thought it would be interesting to reverse the situation and have him write for my own blog.

I am looking forward to seeing what both Bill and Peter come up with. More details (including the specific schedule) and more posts to come this week...

Friday, July 21, 2006

It's A Dog Eat Dog World

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Get Dan Rather On This

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

"Fixing" The Election

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

For Peace, Anything...

Stolen Punchline

Isn't today's Marmaduke stolen right out of that one "midday during peak hours" cell phone commercial?

Friday, July 14, 2006

Note

I don't think I can turn today's Marmaduke into a political strip. How can you really link yoga to the present Israel-Lebanon conflict? But I'd really like to ask Brad Anderson what's going on with today's strip. Is Marmaduke supposed to be laughing at Mrs. Winslow's vagina??

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Arms Dealer With Four Legs

Internet browsings have led me to a fellow Marmaduke blogger, Joe Mathlete. Another great take on that beloved Great Dane in which he explains in perfect deadpan exactly what is happening in every day's strip. If you dig my blog, please check out his.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Who Would Listen In On The Winslow Household?

Monday, July 10, 2006

World Cup Losers

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but I've had somewhat of a writer's block lately. The pictures Anderson gave me this week were pretty specific and therefore hard to repurpose. I'll try to make a more concerted effort this week.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Happy 230th, America!

Monday, July 03, 2006

The Sunday Special

Because I was away all weekend, you get a full color MCV which reveals a shocking truth about the Winslow family. Click this small pic to read it:

And I can't believe that on Saturday, Marmaduke went really-seriously-along-the-lines-of-this-site political. Nice work, Anderson. I will take this strip as a tip of the hat to my blog.

Best watch your back, Brad Anderson...

Hello, everyone.

My name is Jon Katz, formerly of Kick The Leftist. And for the last eight years, I have read nearly every Marmaduke comic strip that has been published. I have not done this because I think it is a funny strip. In fact, it is not. For further explanation of this, I suggest you read my close friend Bill Benz's article So Much To See In One Panel. In it, he describes in great detail the long-standing struggle we have had with Marmaduke and his creator, Brad Anderson.

At first, I was satisfied with Bill's dissertation of the beloved Great Dane which has frustrated us for all these years. Then I came across this website, which demonstrates that the popular yet terrible comic strip Garfield is actually funny when you remove Garfield's thought bubbles. Doing this shows what life would actually be like for his owner, Jon. He does not have a witty cat, he has a regular cat. Jon is just insane. So I got to thinking... what could make Marmaduke funny? Unlike Garfield, Marmaduke does not talk to us (though he can apparently talk to taxi cab drivers enough to tell them where he lives). Then it hit me. What if instead of being written by Brad Anderson, whose only background in comedy lies in the fact that he, too, owns a Great Dane, it was written by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has incorporated politics into his comic strip since 1970. In other words... what if Marmaduke went political??

What follows, therefore, is my attempt to answer this question. I will continue to read Marmaduke every day and, when applicable, I will update this blog with a new strip re-interpreted with a new tagline. I will preface this blog by acknowledging that I am a liberal, but I promise to be fair and balanced in my dog-based politics. Just like Fox News.

"Marmaduke Can Vote" is an unauthorized parody of the works of Brad Anderson. It is in no way affiliated with Mr. Anderson, the Marmaduke comic strip, or United Features Syndicate. But anyway, hey Brad, now that I have your attention, it's a joke. C'mon dontcha get it?

Hey, feel free to email me and tell me what you think of the strip directly. T M B Jon at gmail dot com. ;P

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