With today’s monster toon collection — the not-a-moment-too-soon last of ’23 — we offer our immeasurable thanks and a bittersweet farewell to our long-toiling weekly toon hunter and connoisseur, Perry Dorrell, better known to most as simply ‘PDiddie’…
In 2015, after many years of noteworthy toonage at his own blog, Brains and Eggs — “Afflicting the Comfortable since 2002” — I asked Perry to share a weekly collection for denizens of The BRAD BLOG. In his tireless 9 years of service ever since, I do not believe he has missed a week. (There may have been one, recent years, when I stepped in for health reasons during all of those years.)
His reliable weekly collections — a look both back at the week and ahead — have served as a welcome, reliable and much-needed pallet cleanser throughout our nation’s devolution as we have witnessed the sad, slow financial declination of the art form of political toonery. (As he has also documented and weekly sought to help abate.)
On the final night of the damnable 2023, we lift our cup in both kindness and thanks to the good PDiddie as he prepares for, if not necessarily greener pastures, different ones.
(How generous is PDiddie? He begrudgingly offered to return every now and again, if and as needed, for a guest turn here. A heartfelt offer, no doubt, mostly to assuage my sadness at his impending departure.)
In his absence, I will do my best to fill his shoes until and unless I can either find someone else to volunteer for the critical task (Email me if interested! Quickly!) or my own health demands that I return to attempts to try and look away for a day or two each week.
Along with a Cup of Kindness in thanks to our beloved PDiddie — still “Afflicting the Comfortable” — I raise another to my fellow creators, readers, listeners, gatherers, guests and contributors — who have aligned here and elsewhere in various ways to keep us alight, for good or ill — for a ridiculous 20 years (come later next month).
And a Happy New Year to all…
— BF
It was both my pleasure and privilege, Brad.
It certainly didn’t feel like a virtual decade of service to the cause. I’m grateful to the artists whose talents brought a brief respite to the weekly horrors of simply documenting the conservative atrocities. The trees grow the fruit; I just picked it.
To you and Desi and all of us, and in the words of one of our OG bloggers who passed long ago — Bart Cooper, known as Bartcop — “keep swinging the big hammer”.
Really have enjoyed the pertinent and humorous Sunday ‘Toons by all the talented artists and that most of them will continue to share. Best wishes to PDiddie for successful new endeavor.
Hope you and Desi will have fun celebrating tonight and keep on everyday of New Year 2024!!!
Thank you Brad and thank you PDidie. Thank you both for joining all of us in order to take the cover-ups off … along with Desi (Small Brains Considered – 18).
Thanks PDiddie for the great Sunday cartoons, they were splendid.
Always looked forward to the cartoons on Sunday.