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<h1><a href="gallery1.html">Political Cartoons and Comics about War, Racism, Sexism, Capitalism, U.S.
Prisons, Prisoner Rights, Worker Rights, Human Rights, Consumerism, Socialism,
Facism, Military Industrial Complex, Colonialism, War on Drugs, War on Terrorism,
Gender Issues, Identity Politics and the Environment.</a></h1>
<h2><a href="http://www.sidewalkbubblegum.com/">Clay Butler Political Cartoonist</a>, <a href="http://www.sidewalkbubblegum.com/">Political
Satirist</a>, <a href="index.htmlhttp://www.sidewalkbubblegum.com/">Political Humorist</a>,
<a href="gallery1.html">Editorial Illustrator</a>, <a href="gallery2.html">Editorial
Cartoons</a>, Comics, Political Illustrations,Social
Commentary Comics, Political Commentary, <a href="gallery1.html">Progressive
Cartoonist</a>, <a href="gallery2.html">Left Socialist
Cartoonist</a>, <a href="gallery3.html">Anarchist Comics and Cartoons</a></h2>
<p><a href="gallery1.html"><b><span class="text">Alternative Political Comics </span></b><span class="text"><b>
Archive # 001-099</b></span></a><span class="text"><b> <br>
<a href="gallery2.html">Political Comic Strip Archive # 100-199</a><br>
<a href="gallery3.html">Alternative Political Cartoon Archive # 200-204</a></b></span> </p>
<p><b><span class="text">SIDEWALK BUBBLEGUM</span></b></p>
<p class="text">Started in 1993, <a href="http://www.north-wis.com/cgibin/cheeseboard/web_store.cgi" target="_blank">Clay
Butler’s</a> self-syndicated weekly political cartoon, Sidewalk Bubblegum, has
been seen in hundreds of magazines, books, and zines including <a href="http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/zmag/zmag.cfm" target="_blank">Z
Magazine</a>, Playboy,<a href="http://funnytimes.com/" target="_blank"> Funny
Times</a>, <a href="http://www.comic-relief.com/" target="_blank">Comic Relief</a>,
Creative Loafing, Metro Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sentinel and Finland’s largest
Swedish-language daily newspaper, the <a href="http://www.hbl.fi" target="_blank">HUFVUDSTADSBLADET</a>.
Here’s what other people have said:</p>
<p> <span class="text">"Clay Butler’s Sidewalk Bubblegum cartoons are not just
hilarious- they are intelligent, witty, acutely perceptive social commentary,
profound cultural analysis in the guise of devastating satire." -<b><br>
<a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Esachs/Zinn/" target="_blank">Howard
Zinn</a><br>
Author of<u> </u></b><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060926430/o/qid=976231853/sr=2-1/105-0940692-6165558" target="_blank"><b>A</b>
<b>People’s History of the United States.</b></a><br>
</u></span></p>
<p><span class="text">"Just a note of thanks for the strips, which we all
enjoyed, down to the grandchildren." <br>
<b><a href="http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/chomsky.htm" target="_blank">Noam
Chomsky</a> </b><br>
<b>Intellectual Superhero and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679720340/qid=989160212/sr=1-4/ref=sc_b_5/002-5508214-9488847" target="_blank">Manufacturing
Consent</a></b></span><br>
</p>
<p> <span class="text">"The wonderful clarity of Clay Butler’s line work is matched
only by the pointed acidity of his commentary. Sidewalk Bubblegum is a treat
for the mind as well as the eye." -<b> <br>
Tom Tommorrow<u><a href="http://www.thismodernworld.com/" target="_blank"><br>
creator of This Modern World.</a></u></b></span></p>
<p><span class="text">"Clay Butler's "Sidewalk Bubblegum" achieves
the impossible: Elevating the humble gag cartoon from the insipid one-liners
of yesteryear--and today's "New Yorker"--to relevant, postmodern comments
on the state of society. Deceptively simple and easy on the eye, it's one of
the most subversive graphic commentaries around."<br>
<b>Ted Rall <br>
Creator of the nationally syndicated <a href="http://www.rall.com" target="_blank">political
comic strip Rall</a></b> </span><br>
</p>
<p class="text">"I've admired "Sidewalk Bubblegum" for years. It's
more than appealing artwork, more than good storytelling, more, even, than intelligent,
sympathetic politics. "Sidewalk Bubblegum" posesses some kind of underlying
structural effeciency that conveys maximum thought through minimal information.
In 4 panels or less, it precisely illustrates volumes of political and social
commentary. The result is simple, charming, and devastating. Oh yeah, it's funny,
too." <b>Nina Paley <br>
</b> <a href="http://www.ninapaley.com" target="_blank"><b>Creator of Nina's
Adventures</b></a></p>
<p> <span class="text">"Clay Butler rushes where most cartoonists fear to tread.
He takes aim at crucial- and unsettling- realities of our daily lives. If truth
is the target, Butler hits plenty of bulls-eyes. You may cringe – but you’ll
also laugh… and think!" - <b><a href="http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/solomon.html" target="_blank"><br>
Norman Solomon</a><br>
Author of the weekly syndicated column<u> <a href="http://www.fair.org/media-beat/index.html" target="_blank">Media
Beat</a></u><a href="http://www.fair.org/media-beat/index.html"> </a>and author
of <u><a href="http://www.commoncouragepress.com/solomon_medialand.html" target="_blank">Adventures
in Media-land</a>.</u></b></span></p>
<p> <span class="text">"Butler is probably the best draftsman to do political
panel cartoons since <a href="http://www.fastbooks.com.au/cobb.html" target="_blank">Ron
Cobb</a> back in the 1960s. He possesses a special gift for <a href="tutorial.html">drawing</a>
different species of late-20th-century types: anonymous <a href="068.html">midlevel
managers</a>, <a href="063.html">wife-beating rageballs</a> and <a href="016.html">TV
news anchormen</a>. The Glory of Capitalism targets not just supply-side economists
but also sunny-side journalists. A prime Butler gag depicts a newsman reassuring
a homeless woman that at least her children don't have to worry about exposure
to Internet pornography. Butler excels at drawing out the monstrosity of societally
endorsed heroes. In one cartoon, we see Butler's vision of that urban legend
<a href="060.html">"the self-made man"</a> as a Frankenstein's monster built
out of other people's flesh. In another, he shows how the insistence on<a href="078.html">
"eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"</a> leaves us all blind and toothless, as
Martin Luther King Jr. once put it. Though Butler's monsters are no slouches
themselves, monstrosity grows more frightening the more human it gets." - <b><br>
Richard von Bussack</b> <br>
<u> <a href="http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.07.96/comics-9645.html" target="_blank"><b>Metro
Newspapers.</b></a></u></span></p>
<p> <span class="text">"It’s the chewiest, the juciest… Clay Butler’s Sidewalk
Bubblegum is quite simply the cat’s pajamas… it’s where I steal most of my ideas!"
-<br>
<b> Kieth Knight<br>
A</b><b>uthor of the <a href="http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2000/09/13/knig/index.html" target="_blank">"K"
Chronicles. </a></b></span></p>
<p><span class="text">To witness the splendor that is the Sidewalk Bubblegum archive,<a href="gallery1.html" target="mainFrame">
click here</a>. For information about Clay’s self-published collections of Sidewalk<br>
Bubblegum cartoons,<a href="books.html" target="mainFrame"> click here.</a>
</span> <br>
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<font color="#000000"><span class="text">Clay Butler<br>
PO Box 245<br>
Capitola, CA<br>
95010 <br>
Phone :831-477-9029</span></font><span class="text"><font color="#FFFFFF">9
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<a href="mailto:clay@claybutler.com">clay@claybutler.com</a></font></span></b></p>
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