Below is the latest The Pain -- When Will It End?
Updated 10/17/01
Artist's Statement
I owe this idea to Jim Fisher (model
for "The Miracles of Jim," among others, who proposed a massive
pornography drop over Afghanistan to outrage and demoralize its fundamentalist
elements and trigger mass defections from the Taliban. Geekily, I have continued
the same pattern of porn magazine titles I began in "The Baltimore City
Library's New Pornography Exchange Program," in which I alter only one
letter of each title to create the next porn magazine title ("Smut--Slut--Slit").
It's fun. You should try it.
This is only a humorous drawing and contains no political message. I have
only the deepest respect for the noble tenets of fundamentalist Islam and
the fine products of the American pornography industry.
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I notice I'm like the only cartoonist
who's even trying to be funny since September 11th. The rest have gone all
mawkish and reverential, stooping at times to sentiments worthy of For
Bettr or For Worse or Family Circus. I submit that this is
not our job, and the rest of you ought to get back to work. Now more than
ever, we are needed. There's a war on.