This Week's Sneak Peek

Arthur William Radford is chiefly remembered for saying "Half of art is knowing when to stop."

I reached that point and whizzed right past it when I made a last-minute decision late at night to draw a stained glass window in the background right where I had intended to put that notice about where to email me.

Q Toon: A Night to Remember

Prom time is just about here, so I decided to take a break from the serious issues of the day this week.

I never actually went to prom when I was in high school, in spite of growing up in the town with the world's best prom. (That's how they bill it, really. Once upon a time, the Rotary Club brought in such superstars as Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, and Buddy Rich to play at the city-wide after-prom party they sponsor to keep kids under supervision and out of each other's pants; but after-proms with those big-name performers were well before my salad days. The Rotary Club dance continues to this day, however, with live cable TV coverage of the kids arriving in their finery.)

The last school dance I went to was in the eighth grade, where I discovered how grossly inadequate was the dance instruction that had been part of elementary school P.E.

I believe our prom theme was "A Stairway to Heaven" (wasn't everybody's?), and I can only assume that what paltry do-si-do and allemand-left skills I might have retained would be no more useful there than they had been in the eighth grade.

This Week's Sneek Peek

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love; so away with all these thoughts of court cases, discriminatory wedding cakes, and antigay pogroms in foreign lands!

A dance to spring!

Q Toon: Legal Briefs

It ain't easy defending Defense of Marriage Acts around the country these days.

State lawyers arguing in favor of Utah's ban of same-sex marriage had planned to cite that Mark Regnerus study so thoroughly dismissed by the U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Freeman in Michigan. Last week, Utah's lawyers wrote the 10th Circuit Court to ask them to forget anybody ever mentioned Mr. Regnerus. (See my cartoon about Mr. Regnerus here.)

Just days later, Southern Ohio District Court Judge Timothy Black ruled that Ohio must recognize marriages of same-sex couples legally performed in other states, stating that "The record before the Court ... is staggeringly devoid of any legitimate justification for the Ohio's ongoing arbitrary discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and, therefore, Ohio's marriage recognition bans are facially unconstitutional and unenforceable under any circumstances."

Further cases are pending in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Virginia -- well, almost every state that still clings to mixed-sex marriage supremacy. And time is running out for those desperately searching for evidence out of marriage equality pioneers Massachusetts, California, and Iowa that marriage equality leads to juvenile delinquency, the heartbreak of psoriasis, uneven breast growth, crab grass, holy fucking shitballs, or rising sea levels.

Holy Week's Sneak Peek

Three-point perspective makes its return in this week's cartoon, which doesn't really have anything in particular to do with Holy Week, or Passover, the Red Moon, Tax Time, or King Joffrey's wedding, as it turns out.

Pity poor Margaery, by the way. How many lousy husbands does a gal gotta marry just to become queen, anyway?

Q Toon: Mississippi Frosting

Last Thursday, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a law similar to the one vetoed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last month guaranteeing a right to discriminate against anyone you think is a heathen, sinner, apostate, heretic, infidel, or -- oh, come on, you know it's all about Teh Gay.

Unlike Governor Brewer, Bryant isn't worried about losing Super Bowls or convention business to other states.

“I am proud to sign the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which will protect the individual religious freedom of Mississippians of all faiths from government interference,” Gov. Phil Bryant said in a statement. 

Indeed, the Governor and the state legislature look forward to welcoming any number of wacko cults flocking to set up shop in the fertile soil of the Magnolia State.

Sneak Peek of the Week

I was up until 1:00 last night wrestling with three-point perspective and drawing circles on an angle.

And it looks like this woman is digging her elbow into a cake.

Dammit.