Sun Jan 11, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman

ComicMix Politics: Obama's Mad, Caroline Kennedy, and Editorial Cartoons with closing papers

A quick wrapup of the mix of comics and politics:

* Obama meets Spidey. Yeah, yeah, everybody's covered it by now. But most people haven't seen Mad Magazine asking what Barack Obama will do during his first 100 minutes in office. Indecision 2008 has the sneak peek. Hint: lots and lots of cigarettes in the Rose Garden.

* And while we're on the subject of Obama, one of his biggest boosters was Caroline Kennedy, who's currently under consideration for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. And Caroline Kennedy's been in comics a lot longer than most.

* Editorial cartoons are getting endangered, with newspapers beginning to fold up shop. Tom Spurgeon has a very informative write-up (boy, that's redundant) on the problems at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and what that means for comics.

You can now go back to watching Meet The Press.

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