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March 29, 2006
NoEvil Productions Achieves a New Level
By THOMAS HUDSON REEVE
Kickback Mountain achieves a new level of accomplishment for the Dreamteam.
It’s good. It really is, thanks to everyone.
The creativity of the team coordinated very well. The artists each added something
uniquely their own, but it all works so well together. And yet we are around the world
from one another! Amazing!
Although every teamster didn’t leave actual fingerprints on Kickback, everybody shares
in the success or failure of our ambition to create work of the highest quality, and all
our work has been steadily improving. This is not only gratifying; it is the key to our
chance for success.
We don’t have an uncle who owns a network, or a friend in publishing, but we
actually have some talent.
We feel that if we make good use of the web it is conceivable that works of quality
and integrity will have a chance to rise into view, find an audience, and lead to
new opportunities. However, since this option is open to absolutely everyone,
only our best can avoid being overwhelmed by the sea of amateur mediocrity.
The main thing we do is make e-greeting cards.
It is creative work, and there has been enough of a market – thanks to Kat – for us to
get this far.
However a greeting card is a limited form. It is a friendly salutation from me to you. It’s
pretty simple and although we can stretch it, the requirements confine the possibilities;
it must always return to the one and only conclusion – Happy Birthday (or whatever) to you.
So what can we do besides e-cards? What topic is worth the attention of our brilliant team?
Political satire and social commentary is the answer.
One reason is that it opens up all the possibilities of narrative storytelling – it can be more
fun, but the most important reason is that the 2006 U.S. elections are crucial in America’s
effort to begin to change the course of our Federal government. If the Democrats can make
significant gains in Congress we may still be able to rein in an Executive Branch that is
galloping head long down the wrong road. The citizens of this great country must wake-up.
They must reaffirm that this is a democratic republic by electing honest representatives.
They must flush the corruption from the halls of power before it is too late, before
the republic is completely subverted.
If we can make people laugh and think about the stupidity, deceit and hypocrisy –
it is a disgrace! - we will be defending the principals that are the true foundation of the
country: The Rule of Law, a government “Of the people, by the people, and for the people”.
It is a time honored American tradition. Blogs and the Internet can be like the Colonial
pamphleteers (Thomas Paine most famously) who printed small handbills criticizing and
satirizing the rule of King George III and passed them around among the common citizens.
The NoEvil logo depicts the fabled 3 monkeys known for diligently eschewing evil. But our
monkeys, rather than covering up, hold the tools of communication. The monkeys of legend
are meant to warn against participation in evil, but they are sometimes taken to recommend
a life of willful ignorance. This is incorrect, I believe, but an understandable conclusion in a
confusing world where there is seldom a crisp line between good and evil.
(That’s why they invented sports).
These Monkeys do not participate in evil they participate in Good. They look, they listen,
they speak – just not evil.
Posted by photocartoonist at March 29, 2006 12:58 AM