Reason Cartoonist Henry Payne Talks Doodling, Politics on "Devil's Advocate" with Jon Caldara

The Independence Institute's Jon Caldara talks with cartoonists Chuck Asay (of Creators Syndicate and late of the Colorado Springs Gazette) and Henry Payne of the Detroit News. It's a fun, rollicking conversation, so check it out.

Payne has been publishing cartoons and more in Reason for years now; check out his Reason archive here and check out his writing at the Detroit News blog The Michigan View.

Payne's full-service site is here.

Comments

[sarcasmic]

Needs more labels.

[Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand]

Rollicking is The Jacket's favorite adjective.

[Episiarch]

Not gamboling?

[Almanian]

SHHHHHHHHHH! You'll summon it who shall remain clueless!

[Jon Schaffer`s Right Hand]

I have never read text from The Jacket that contained the "word" gambol.

Sweet Odhinn's ravens, this whole The Jacket thing is getting extremely cultish.

[Private Idaho, striker]

This whole The Jacket thing is getting extremely cultish.

[Ice Nine]

Jesus, this thread is going to be brutal.

[jesus]

I can't help you honey; I'm trying to make my way out of a vagina

[jesus]

April sucks for me too

[Episiarch]

Come on, it's not Chip Bok.

[inquiring mind]

Somebody please volunteer to watch that 27:31 video and let the rest of us know if it is better than Payne's cartoons. My life is too precious to risk doing it myself.

[sailor]

Maybe worth it for the awkward gay jokes directed at Payne.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Revelation from the video: Payne ghost wrote the majority of the later Mary Worths.

[Alan Vanneman]

What do you mean "brutal"? Do you think people will make fun of Hank? Many years ago, Robert Benchley wrote that "the superlative of the adjective 'unfunny' is 'French clown.'" If Bob were still around, he'd have to revise that statement.

[Warty]

ALAN VANNEMAN

[Anal Vanneman]

Stop spelling my name wrong!

[Almanian]

Did you say something? No - that's what I thought.

[Yoda]

A picture is worth a thousand words. In Payne's case, I hope they only pay him half.

[H Payne]

These guys really do seem to know what is going on man. Wow.

http://www.AnonSurfing.tk

[Almanian]

Oh, pseudo-Anon Bot, I do enjoy your entries into our otherwise dreary, predictable world. Even though you're predictable, too. At least you're cheerful.

Why am I talking to a Bot?

*runs away*

[The Other Kevin]

I do have to give the guy some credit. Because although Friday Funnies are themselves never funny, the comments are usually the best of the week.

[Private Idaho]

the comments are usually the best

Tallest Midget Syndrome.

[nobody]

Off topic, of course, but Radley just posted the single most ridiculous video I've ever seen. A segment from CBS' The Early Show documenting the risky new fad of kids pretending to smoke Smarties.

Note that they're not actually smoking anything.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

But it looks like they are smoking. Smoking is bad. Looking like you're smoking is sort of bad. And they hold the Smarties pack like it is a cigarette. And they puff it like it is a cigarette. And there is a "whole ritual" like lighting a cigarette. Put all that together, and smoking Smarties is 99.999% like smoking a cigarette. And smoking cigarettes are bad.

[Paul]

I weep for my country.

If the government finally takes over news media as the progressives want (now that we're under the full effect of the fractured space-time continuum), will it make these stories go away or make them worse.

Because if it makes them go away, I'd almost be willing to get on board with government control of media.

[Mike Laursen]

Yeah, right. We're supposed to believe the Friday Funnies cartoonists really exist?

[Doubting Thomas]

Like you really exist?

[Max]

Payne went to the Soviet school of polical cartoonists. The motto: satirize only official enemies.

[Clock of Insanity]

Why satirize "unofficial" enemies when they (you) self-satirize so perfectly?