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Jen Sorensen

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About Me



My new collection, SLOWPOKE: ONE NATION. OH MY GOD! will be out in April from Ig Publishing. It contains my best cartoons from the past few years, cartoon meta-commentary, and an intro by Ruben Bolling, creator of "Tom the Dancing Bug." You can get a discount if your order in advance from Amazon .

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I draw the comic Slowpoke , which appears in altweeklies around the country. Slowpoke has also graced the pages of: LA Times, Ms. Magazine, Funny Times, The American Prospect, and CampusProgress.org .

Slowpoke is featured in Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists, edited by Ted Rall, and won first place in the 2005 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Awards. Commentary on each week's strip is available on the SlowpokeBlog .

I also do freelance illustration for Nickelodeon Magazine and other publications.

More at: www.slowpokecomics.com

My Interests

comics, cartoons, humor, satire, progressive politics, altweeklies, anthropology, language, George Lakoff, travel, Belgian beer, microbrews, cairn terriers

I'd like to meet:

Fans and creators of cartoons, comics, art, and humor; political types; writers; reality-based humans.

Not that I have anything against musicians, but if you are one, please send me a convincing personal message explaining why you belong on my friends list so I know you're not just randomly pimping your Jackyl cover band. ANYTHING SMACKING OF BOTS WILL BE DENIED! Of course, if you feel I've dissed you unfairly, you are welcome to send me a message and convince me you're for real.

Music:

Pixies, Frank Black, Kinks, Rezillos, Revillos, Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, Sweet, ELO, Slade, early Cheap Trick, Big Star, pre-Sammy Van Halen, Stevie Wonder, The Move, ABBA, Paul Collins Beat, The Vapors, 999, Adicts, Dungen, The Smiths, old Cure, early Who, Mekons, Miss Kittin and the Hacker, Ladytron, X, Tones on Tail, XTC, Roxy Music, T Rex, Ian Dury, Weirdos, Dickies, Buggles, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, Dave Edmunds, P-Funk, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, WFMU.

Movies:

My Dinner With Andre, After Hours, Blood Simple, Brazil, The Music of Chance, The Spanish Prisoner, Groundhog Day, Slacker, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Graduate, Dr. Strangelove, Amateur, Blow Up, North By Northwest, Night of the Hunter, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, All of Me, The Thing, Wallace and Gromit, Truman Show, Amadeus, Memento, Drowning by Numbers, Being There, Capturing the Friedmans

Books:


Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers

Slowpoke: Café Pompous

Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists

Heroes:

Lisa Simpson, Carl Sagan, Molly Ivins

My Blog

2008 BOOK TOUR! Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, NYC, Philly

If you're in one of the above cities, come meet me on my book tour! I'll be presenting a slideshow of my cartoons and signing copies of my new book, ONE NATION, OH MY GOD!Schedule is as follows:APR 22...
Posted by Jen Sorensen on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

Pre-order the New Slowpoke Book!

Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God!, consisting of my best cartoons since the 2004 election, will descend upon the homeland come April, 2008! Pre-orders give me good mojo going forward, so, if you feel ...
Posted by Jen Sorensen on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST