If there’s one thing Andrew Sullivan changes more often than his opinion about George W. Bush, it’s web hosts. This weekend, as expected, he moved The Daily Dish* from the servers at Time to the servers at The Atlantic. Just try and visit http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/ and see how far that gets you.
The dark blue and white color combination remains the same — perhaps makng it the only consistent attribute of Sullivan’s blog from 2000-2007 — although the banner logo has changed and he has appropriated for sloganeering purposes a phrase from The Atlantic’s founding document: “Of no party or clique.” And the Terry Colon cartoon looked… somehow off. Indeed, it’s a whole new cartoon. Old first, new second:
A copyright issue, I assume. But the plot thickens: who is that woman in the background? Sullivan attempted to explain:
Some of you have inferred that it’s Ana-Marie Cox, formerly Wonkette. An editor asked Terry about this and I got the impression he doesn’t know who Ana-Marie Cox is. Still, whoever she is, from the office I’m working in, she’d have to be clinging to a balcony on the seventh floor.
Hmm. It would be rather strange if Mr. Colon was unfamiliar with Ms. Cox, considering that he drew a logo for her defunct Time blog, Political Bite:
Not to mention at Suck.com, where they both once worked:
In any case, it doesn’t look like her, and before long one of Sullivan’s readers had set the record straight.
And while we’re on the subject of defunct Time blogs and Terry Colon, he also caricatured Mike Allen for his little-used The Allen Report. Then Allen defected to The Politico, where he too had another caricature commissioned for him, albeit by another artist. Old and new:
If there’s point to be made here, and I am not sure there is, it’s that Terry Colon draws funny pictures. If there are two points to be made here — an assumption even more suspect — I would add that the more you think about it, the more political opinion and comic art go well together.
* That’s the name of his blog, and always has been — but no one ever calls it that. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News and E! Online, among presumable others, have similarly-named columns.
“If there’s one thing Andrew Sullivan changes more often than his opinion about George W. Bush, it’s web hosts.”
Don’t forget his sexual partners! (He has.)
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I think your first graphic is mislabeled there, sir.