Once again, the US government says it picked up “terrorist chatter” online that prompted it to close U.S. embassies around the world. What exactly goes on in Terrorist Chatrooms? Here’s everything you need to know to navigate the world of jihad online.
P.S. Sorry about the small writing. Looks great in print, though.
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Was your use of Grumpy Cat licensed? He has a book and movie deal you know …
Not not that it matters because I would be covered by parody, but as a matter of fact I did use the officially sanctioned grumpy cat meme generator.
This is hilarious … where I can read it. Sadly as a product of your space constraints I am having real trouble reading the ultra-tiny font in the middle and bottom panels on the left most and right most columns. This is a shame, because the rest of the terrorist banter that I can read is most entertaining and I bet the ones I am missing are as well – plus obviously you put effort into those.
I guess this comic is already set in stone, but if you could find a way to blow up ( lol ) the text in those images just a tad they look like they might cross a key threshold into readability. I know there isn’t much space available, but sacrificing things nice looking spacing and margins within the various panels to make the text of the gags readable would be a favorable tradeoff IMHO.
I don’t want to sound too sycophantic Ted, but this is hands down your most brilliant cartoon ever!
@someone: opening up just the cartoon image in a different tab, and zooming up (Ctrl-+ in any decent browser) might help you read the fine print. HTH, hand.
Ted, these past few cartoons have been simply fantastic.
Thanks, Alex!
This is my favorite comic of yours since that “but it’s cold outside” global warming comic a few years back. “I’m a bacon eating Jew”. ROFL!
Beginning to suspect, Ted, that either you work for the NSA and have access to their thesaurus of downloaded material, or that you hang around on some pretty unsavoury sites (the two alternatives may not be mutually exclusive : some of the sites may be sponsored by the NSA or CIA or such, and sometimes one wonders whether these (in)security organs are not themselves sponsored by «the other side»). Wonderful cartoon, but frankly I prefer dogs to cats….
Henri
Many thanks for putting up a version with enough resolution that I could read it on-line. Greatly appreciated. (Where could I have seen it in print?)
(I started following your cartoons when they ran in the New York Times and enjoyed them enough to follow them on gocomics after the Times cut them. But this one was impossible to read on gocomics because of the low resolution.)
Thanks for your devotion, Michael. Where do you live? I might be in print near you. But if not, it always pays to write your local editor to ask them to carry my work.
If readers did that on behalf of their favorite cartoonists, there would be no crisis in cartooning. Editors think readers don’t like cartoons because they don’t write when they disappear.
I discovered you through your weekly column in the Illinois State Journal-Register…they dropped you a couple years ago I think. They also fired a really good local cartoonist, Chris Britt. People were pissed…editors just ignored them.
People weren’t pissed enough. When protests are loud and sustained, editors always buckle. I’ve seen it often, such as when the SF Chronicle tried to cancel Zippy the Pinhead. There were always street demonstrations.
I know that’s a lot to ask, but that’s what it takes to keep things you like.
I just read panel #3…..fantastic reference there….personally, I’m a huge fan of Godwin’s Law