I’ve been called a cartoon character before. Now, according to the Tampa Tribune’s BlogJam section, I actually am one!

Read more: i’ve blogged, been blogged about, and even blogged about blogging: now I’ve been blogjammed and i think i like it

The whole debacle started on Friday when Pakistan ordered access to YouTube be blocked due to videos including the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that caused such a stir last year. When the telecoms did as the Pakistani government ordered, all traffic requests for YouTube were sent to a virtual black hole where the data was discarded. The problem became global when somehow their traffic redirect got sent out to one of the twenty largest data carriers, PCCW of Hong Kong.

Read more: Pakistan Takes Down YouTube

And for those curious about the outcome of the balloting, Bugs Bunny beat Gabriella 3 votes to 2. The exit polls showed that Gabriella and Bugs split the female vote, but Bugs held a commanding lead among voters 18 and over, and that pushed him over the top.

Read more: Bugs by a hair

My new little logo I created at SP-Studio where you too can create your own little South Park character. I liked the way I could get books and cards into it - two of my favourite things. You might have seen an earlier version in an avatar I use around the place - it’s a bit racier - I’m (it is) wearing a red bikini.

Read more: Playing with design - yet again

We were only in California Adventure for about an hour before the park closed and then we walked back over to Disneyland in time to watch the fireworks. Since we figured most of the guests were on Main Street watching the fireworks we would try to get on the revamped Submarine ride – now featuring “Finding Nemo” (that seemed like a tame enough ride for Tom). Well, the line to get on the ride was bout 6 miles long! So, we got on “Pirates of The Caribbean” which has been updated and now includes lines from the movies and several life-like and very creepy Johnny Depp likenesses!

Read more: The E Ticket Ride

So I talked about this on a recent episode of the Maccast Loop, but in case some of you missed it I thought I would mention it here. The other day I was watching the Pixar film “The Incredibles” and noticed it had a scene that could have possibly inspired the Macbook Air. If not, it at least has an eerily predictive nature about it.

Read more: “Incredible” inspiration for the Macbook Air?

For the next issue, however, the gang has recruited some very special help. ‘Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming,’ a two-page spread that the magazine calls an exposé, has been illustrated by 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists.

Read more: Mad Mag Uses Pulitzer Winners to Tweak Bush

South Park meet Star Wars meet Microsoft. Minh over at the Microsoft enthusiast community Channel9 has finally revealed what he has been teasing in the past week or so, an animated movie about Microsoft he’s been working on. It’s all being done in Anime Studio and Windows Movie Maker. Here is the trailer he released today, with the full movie coming soon.

Read more: Yellow Harvest: Trailer

I was in SM Megamall yesterday and I just a Malang comics and cartoon exhibit inside The Crucible and then I asked for a press release of the exhibit just to inform everyone about the event.

Read more: The Crucible Launches Malang Comic Book

An amusing weekend distraction. You can see the full-sized strip or even buy it on a t-shirt over at Dilbert.com.

Read more: Dilbert 2.0

Anyway, there was nothing on so I retired to the living room to read. After about 15 minutes I kept hearing my wife burst out in laughter. She came to get me and said she was watching some show with funny commercials. That sounded better than reading, so I joined her.

Read more: Thursday Night

I used to watch the eleven-minute weekly cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Cartoon Network with some regularity, until I realized that every eleven-minute episode was the SAME eleven minutes over and over, just with a revolving door of oddball supporting characters. Of course, now that I said that, I will have gotten some nerd’s geek-panties in a twist and they will educate me on the subtle and minute differences between “Baloonenstein” and “The Broodwich.”

Read more: DVD Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters

Dick Tracy has had quite a few spin-offs in other media, from radio series to movie serials to a few cartoons (now on DVD), to the 1990 Warren Beatty film. Maybe you didn’t like it, but I love this movie. Heck, I even dug the board game they made from it. The film had fantastic sets and colors to reflect the old-timey Sunday comic strip tone, and it featured a pile of classic Tracy baddies. This film fueled my fondness for Dick Tracy. It also spawned a tie-in comic with art by Kyle Baker, which is cool. Usually, Tracy’s involvement in the world of comic books is through reprints, but this was original material. I’d like to see something of the kind these days– maybe a “Dick Tracy Begins” kind of graphic novel? That’d be interesting.

Read more: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #225

Wieringo optó por un camino, el de la vida que se desborda. Donde la magia es posible. Donde los héroes lo son de verdad. Donde una imaginación vibrante es capaz de inundarlo todo de luminosa energía. Esto resulta de lo más evidente en Tellos, su obra más personal y de la que se siente más orgulloso. Pero no le queda tan lejos a nuestro Amistoso Vecino Spiderman, según Wieringo, “El Bugs Bunny del Universo Marvel. Divertido, vital e incluso a veces gustoso de rozar el absurdo.” Parece claro que Wieringo y Spiderman se han encontrado… por segunda vez.

Read more: Mike Wieringo

Arno from the comments section asked me about my drawing tools and I thought I’d post a scan of some of the things I use to create my comics.

Read more: My Drawing Tools