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The Sunday Funnies (12/27/09)
by jerry
December 27, 2009 12:05 am


Our weekly survey of recent comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Once again we begin with The Princess and the Frog being used as a metaphor to comment on the Health Care Reform Bill (via Mike Luckovich in the Atlanta Journal Constitution):


Next, Tim Rickard’s sci-fi spoof Brewster Rockit presented a Christmas Special in serialized form:





(Thanks, Uncle Wayne)

12/27/09  9:05am
David Breneman says:

The spleen is definitely one of the more comical body organs. That was a great strip.

12/27/09  10:32am
Jake says:

It had to be either ‘pancreas’ or ’spleen’ and Tim Rickard probably sensed the former was overused as a comical internal reference. The cameos in this strip are drawn so much better than the rest of it, but that’s part of its charm.

12/27/09  12:07pm
DJM says:

I’ve rarely have heard the pancreas used as a punchline. The spleen is old.

12/27/09  1:12pm
Leirin says:

Heck yes, Rankin/Bass.

12/27/09  3:16pm
Emil says:

Warner Bros cartoons used it all through the 90’s.

12/28/09  6:15am

I read Brewster Rockit regularly and loved this past week of strips.

12/29/09  1:16am
TheGunheart says:

So, instead of slapping buzzwords on an ostrich sticking its head in the sand, they now slap ‘em on a frog about to be kissed by Tiana?

Political cartoonists are so clever.

12/29/09  10:41am
pheslaki says:

The dream mash-up of Xmas specials was done better by The Venture Bros.

12/29/09  8:04pm
Lamont says:

He should have wrote “Box Office Results” on the frog.

12/30/09  1:47am

So Health Care reform is a wacky singing and dancing ambiguously foreign prince who turned into a frog after messing with a witch doctor from 1920s New Orleans.

Finally, it all makes sense.

03/11/10  7:14pm

The one about christmas was hilarious! Also I agree with Lamont.

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