Tuesday Twitter Fun – Reid, McCain, Palin and More
Welcome to our first entry in our regular Twitter Tuesday Fun where we’ll highlight politically charged tweets from those in the comic industry. Our first entry comes from Erik Larsen who’s a regular when it comes to politics and Twitter. The writer of such well known series as Savage Dragon wears his politics on his sleeve for the world to see.
The background of this tweet is Senator Richard Shelby putting numerous holds on appointments by President Obama. These holds are similar to filibusters but more informal and Senator Reid (who is the Majority Leader) can choose to ignore them and force a formal filibuster.
The rumor is Sen. Shelby will lift the holds if he gets billions of dollars for his state of Alabama (yes folks this is how our government works).
Larsen tweeted a petition action using the Credo Mobile platform to implore Sen. Reid to ignore the holds and extortion by Shelby and force Shelby to actually filibuster each nominee (70 at the moment) which involves standing on the Senate floor and talking pretty much non-stop (you can’t even leave the floor to use the bathroom).
You can follow Erik Larsen on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ErikJLarsen.
Eric Tautmann, a writer on various series, decided to chime in on Senator McCain’s hypocrisy on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” He followed up a link about the contradiction with some colorful language after. Also, you’ll notice that he’s changed his location to Tehran, Iran. This was a popular idea to confuse censors in Iran and flood the amount of information they’d have to look at during the recent political protests that have occurred there.
You can follow Eric Tautmann at http://twitter.com/mercuryeric.
Len Wallace wrote our favorite graphic novel of 2009, Love Buzz. He decided to comment on the coverage of Sarah Palin speaking at the teabagger, I mean Tea Party, convention on Saturday.
You can follow Len Wallace at http://twitter.com/LenNWallace.
On January 27, from Three Rivers Press, Dan Goldman will be releasing a graphic novel recounting his experience during the 2008 Presidential campaign. You can find a 20 page downloadable preview of the upcoming graphic diary at his website, 
In a repeat of “Dewey beats Truman”, Marvel Comics’ Daily Bugle announced that Stephen Colbert had beaten Barack Obama and John McCain for the Presidency of the United States. They quickly followed up the story with this correction:
This election can be considered one hell of a year of politicaly commentary and coverage in the comics industry. From artists wearing their candidate leanings on their sleeves, to comics staring the candidates themselves. Comic Book Resources has a listing of all of their stories covering the political year that was and various art that has graced their site.
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Campbell, who is donating a portion of the earnings to the Wounded Warrior Project. Campbell is the original artist and co-creator of comic books Gen13 and Danger Girl, and is also widely admired for his work on the Spiderman comics.
Marvel comics is known for incorporating relevent political climates into their series sotry telling. The company has proven time and again it is not afraid to make their opinions known on the hot socio-political issues. From Captain America’s entry into World War II well before Pearl Harbor, to Secret Invasion’s allegory on Islamo-fascism the company wears its politics on its sleave.
While Stephen Colbert only flirted with the idea of running for President in the real world, his campaign never stopped in the Marvel Universe. Along with John McCain and Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert has been campaigning for President.