Saturday, June 20, 2009 - As scary as he is crazy, North Korea's psycho dictator is planning big fireworks for July 4th. Even though his country is the poorest nation in the world and his people are starving (human arms and legs are not an uncommon sight in North Korean meat markets), he has devoted his country's resources to the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons for many years. According to Japanese and U.S. intelligence agencies, he's expected to launch a long-range missile toward Hawaii on or about July 4th. Obviously, we would be forced to respond. Since Kim recently renounced the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War, that war has actually officially resumed. So the events of the coming weeks should be a surprise to nobody. If they do surprise you, then you haven't been paying attention to the news. - Jerry Breen newbreen@comcast.net www.newbreen.com
I've been doing political cartoons since the 60's. Since that time, my work has appeared sporadically in a few major papers but never on any regular basis. My best work has gone unpublished and unseen over the years. UNTIL NOW! With the advent of the Internet, I can now publish my own work on my own terms. And now that my cartoons are accessible to the public, people have been discovering them. And republishing them. And "googling" them. My Barack Obama cartoons are the most popular Obama cartoons on the worldwide web. Even my classic Nixon "Checkers" cartoon, which I couldn't get published back in the 70's, is now one of the most popular Nixon cartoons on the web. The Internet is a level playing field, and the cream rises to the top. I'll be publishing my latest cartoons on this blog, interspersed with some of my classic (unseen) older work. Now that there are no stupid editors to get in between me and the reading public, nothing's gonna stop me now!