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...Islamic country" and business teaching in Kyrgyzstan--and missionary-recruitment seminars can sound like job bazaars. At a small Tennessee Bible church, a mission facilitator assured his listeners that "if you're a native speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward a mosque in the middle distance...
...kind of hard to explain why the cartoons at homestarrunner.com are so funny. But here goes. Homestar Runner, above, is the dorky, crudely drawn hero. His pal Strong Bad is a mysterious dude who brags a lot, wears a Mexican wrestler's mask and makes fun of Homestar. They and their friends act out spoofs, skits, adventures, music videos and fake ads, and just generally goof on their own surreal weirdness. It's like a postmodern version of the Peanuts gang. Or it's like a Saturday-morning cartoon by Salvador Dali. Or--look, it's too hard to explain...
...festival is not going to stay the same," says Lawrence Klein, chairman of MOCCA, which stands for Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. Founded in 2001 as a non-profit, MOCCA's stated purpose is the "collection, preservation, study, education, and display of comic and cartoon art." Currently headquartered in Manhattan's Union Square, MOCCA hopes to eventually open a museum, possibly downtown in the recovering World Trade Center area, though no exact location or opening date have been announced. For now they fulfill their mission by organizing spot exhibits around New York and putting together the annual art festival...
Spike's idea of what men want has a lot in common with Maxim's. For starters, it appears that Pamela Anderson would be perfect if only she had bigger breasts and was a cartoon. She provides the voice for Stripperella, an animated action show premiering June 26 about an exotic dancer who fights crime. Debuting the same night are Gary the Rat, with Kelsey Grammer as the voice of a lawyer who turns into a rodent, and a revival of the scatological toon Ren & Stimpy. Later Spike will roll out the celebrity-car show Ride with Funkmaster Flex, reality...
...morals cops had arrested and beaten a woman just for accepting a car ride from a man she wasn't related to. After the May 12 terrorist attacks that killed 34 in Riyadh, Khashoggi ratcheted up his campaign, targeting religious hard-liners sympathetic to Islamist radicals. He published a cartoon (below) depicting a suicide bomber festooned with fatwas--religious edicts issued by Muslim clerics--instead of bombs. "We used to say that we are a good society, that the bad ideas come from abroad," Khashoggi, who describes himself as an Islamist, explained in a TIME interview three days before...