The Masheka News

Masheka's not a blog addict like me, but he has a new cartoon up and a lot of other news at What Masheka Did.

New Toon: Bush's Bedside Manner

Bush's Bedside Manner
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Is this guy for real? Does he really think kicking 4-6 million kids off of health insurance (and onto the "hope my kids don't get sick" plan) is a winning move? So, so puzzling...

New Toon: When Opposites Attract

When Opposites Attract
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Honestly, this wasn't really about fundamentalists or Reaganites, I just wanted to draw a cartoon with a freegan in it. And despite a recent violent and prolonged personal bout with food poisoning, I support freeganism--there's a lot of good, edible food that gets wasted--just not for myself and my delicate digestive system!

New Toon: News Break

News Break
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

We honeymooned in Provincetown on Cape Cod, and this cartoon is only half-true. I actually made it the whole time without reading a newspaper, and my mom refused to give me any news over the phone.

New Toon: The Benefits of Bedbugs

The Benefits of Bedbugs
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Apparently these little beasties are back in NYC. But no need to fret!

Regrettable Wedding Trends

Regrettable Wedding Trends
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

I'm only half mocking. If I thought our cats could have handled ring bearing duties, I might have considered it. We didn't have any candles, but we did break a glass and get picked up in chairs, and it was super, super fun.

"Anger and passion slipped inside a fun cartoon coating"

My book Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela is one of the premiums in In These Times magazine's fund drive (along with a magazine subscription and a Noam Chomsky book). As part of the campaign, they've done a nice little interview with me where I ramble on about what makes me mad and what keeps me drawing (it's certainly not the money or fame!).

Give some money and get some books!

9/28: Mikhaela & Masheka Cartoon Slideshow in Cambridge

Now that we're hitched, we're back on our mini book tour. Next stop: Beantown (or next to it, anyway!)

Your RSVP would be ever so kindly appreciated. And please feel free to steal this image/text/links and help us promote this event! Please!)

• Who: Angry cartoonists Mikhaela Reid & Masheka Wood
• What: Slideshow/signing/discussion for Attack of the 50-Foot Mikhaela!: Cartoons by Mikhaela Reid w/ a foreword by Ted Rall and Deep Doodle: Cartoons by Masheka Wood!
• When: Friday Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
• Where: Center for New Words, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge, Mass.
• Why: You'll be sorry if you don't!
• No, really, why? Because:

"Mikhaela Reid's cartoons are right *$%@ing on."
-- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

"Masheka Wood has powers way beyond mortal cartoonists. Get on his bandwagon now before there's no room left!"
-- Keith Knight, creator of The K Chronicles and th(ink)

Bushies are bum-rushing Cheney's secret bunker! "Ex-gays" are quaking in their closets! Abstinence educators are shivering in their shiny silver purity rings! Greedy CEOs are heading for the hills! Brooklyn-based cartoonists Mikhaela Reid and Masheka Wood are on a rampage—and no hypocrite is safe! Slideshow, discussion & signing.

ABOUT THE CARTOONISTS
• Mikhaela Reid's cartoons have appeared in The Guardian, The Villager, Chelsea Now, The Phoenix, Bay Windows, Metro Times, In These Times, Women's eNews, Ms., Funny Times, Campus Progress and Bitch. In 2006, Reid was named one of the Girls in Government/Feministing "Real Hot 100" and was featured in the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art exhibit "She Draws Comics: A Century of Women Cartoonists." Ted Rall calls Reid "an insurgent cartoonist: smart, irrepressible and unpredictable." (www.mikhaela.net)
• Masheka Wood grew up in Boston where he was warped by MAD, Night Flights, Garbage Pail Kids and Tex Avery cartoons. His lettering, cartoon and illustration work has appeared on MTV and in UVC (Urban Voice of Comics) magazine and The New Standard. Wood's cartoons were featured in a recent exhibit in Jackson State University, "Other Heroes: African American comics creators, characters, and archetypes." He was also a 2007 Glyph Award nominee for black cartoonist "rising star". (www.whatmashekadid.com)

The kiss!

The kiss!
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Photo by Max Katler (my brother).

Masheka and Mikhaela kiss after the ring exchange. That's cartoonist Ted Rall with Hello Kitty binder officiating. The ceremony was in Lowell, Mass, hence the mill building backdrop.

Masheka and Mikhaela exchanging rings...

Masheka and Mikhaela exchanging rings...
Originally uploaded by M1khaela.

Photo by Max Katler (brother of the bride).

That's fellow cartoonist Ted Rall officiating with his Hello Kitty binder in the background.