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| THE VERY FIRST EPISODE OF ANIMAL NUZ Featuring the intrepid reporter, Oliver the Cat | |
Just as he began Animal Nuz with a serious subject (the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf of Mexico in 2011), Eric has continued to cover events, issues and politicians which are impacting the nation and the world, via the lens of Animal Nuz reporters Oliver and Daisy.
While he receives a stipend from Daily Kos for each episode of Animal Nuz, it is only about enough to cover a modest lunch for one. Eric spends significant time and effort producing this great Political Cartoon for the benefit of the Daily Kos Community, and the Nuz Hounds group would like to ask the Community to help us reward him for his considerable work.
If you are a regular Animal Nuz reader, or if this is the very first time you've heard of Animal Nuz, please follow some of these links and see the depth and breadth of what Eric had created here, see the unique and comical Animal characters he had derived from both famous and infamous political figures. All episodes of Animal Nuz can be found in ericlewis0's diary history:
Episode #2 Where we are introduced to Animal Nuz field correspondent, Daisy the Dog - and where Animal Nuz shows it's colors by taking on Richard "Dick" Cheney and Torture in Guantanamo Bay.
Episode #9 Where we see the first stirrings of just how much material Eric can fit into four panels and the Crawl... when the subject is the Official end of the Iraq War and President Obama in the early years of his first term.
Episode #12 The infamous Mouse Brain episode.
Episode #14 The first episode in which Eric grants a public figure an Animal Nuz style Icon. In this case it was "Ram Emanuel", and no better allusion has ever been made. Hard-headed? Check! F-bomber? Check!
To date, there are now 253 episodes of Animal Nuz.
Can you help us ensure that Eric is able to continue to bring the Community such a great weekly cartoon for the next 253 weeks?
You can participate in our Blogathon and make a donation to Eric starting tomorrow morning with the first Hosted diary which will post at 12:00 pm EST/9:00 am PST. I'll be your opening Host diarist!
UPDATE: Mopshell had a bit of a medical issue last evening and was gone to hospital overnight, but is home and ready for her diary spot tomorrow. So watch for her diary to post at 12:00 pm EST/9:00 am PST and rec it up, please! There will be goodies for donors, new Animal Nuz moniker's will be forthcoming for some of you lucky donors (Mine is JumAnji) and there are Animal Nuz related goodies for purchase at the new Animal Nuz Cafe Press Store.When you make a donation OR buy an item at the Nuz Store during the Blogathon, please remember to LEAVE A COMMENT in a Blogathon diary and let us know you did it - so that you will be entered into the End of the Blogathon Drawing for one of three unique, original Ink drawings signed by the author and mailed to you!
I look forward to seeing a whole lot of you Animal Nuz lovers in the Blogathon diaries!