Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It’s Off To Strip Mine We Go- Our Weekly Caption Contest #2 Kicks Off

Congrats to EarthFirst.com reader Kevin Bedell for his winning entry in our first Caption Contest. Our own Jerry King got things started last week of a captionless ‘toon of a little boy in a big green room listening to his dad read him a story. Our readers flooded the comment boxes with suggested captions and after a good slug or three of cheap vodka we picked the one that made our sides hurt the most. Kevin hit it spot on with “So the 7 Dwarves engaged in unsustainable mining practices?” Soak in the ha ha.

Kevin walks away with both both bragging rights and his pick of the shop over at Teecycle Tees. Our good friend Tim at Teecycle kindly signed on to sponsor our little contest here and deserves all of our kudos, clicks, and business. Tshirts are rad, Teecycled Tshirts are even radder.

We love giving away other people’s gear, so for another shot at another Teecycle Tee, have a crack at filling in a good caption for this gem of a panel

You have until next Thursday, September 25 at midnight EST to get your caption into comments here on this post. Have at it, good hunting.

Get Out Your Thinking Cap: Enter Our Caption Contest and Win a Teecycle Tee

We’ve been really excited to have cartoonist Jerry King join us here at EarthFirst.com over the past few weeks. He’ll be doing custom cartoons for us and suggested that we start running a caption contest to fill the space between his weekly features. We loved the idea and he whipped this one to get things kicked off.

Leave your entry for a funny caption to the following cartoon in comments here. We’ll pick our favorite and give the winner hizzer pick of a shirt from our friends at Teecycle Tees, who have been kind enough to pick up the sponsorship tab. You have until Midnight EST on Monday, September 15th to get yours in for this week. Just leave it in comments here.

Uh… Honey- There’s A Penguin in the Freezer

Happy Sunday. Here’s a laugh to go with your coffee.

Cartoon by EarthFirst.com’s own Jerry King.

There’s Nothing Like Starting a Monday Off By Laughing at Drowned Polar Bears

I thought this was a great pick for this week in light of McCain’s pick of anti-greenie and rightwing vagina Sarah Palin for his VP.

Cartoon by EarthFirst.com’s own Jerry King.

EarthFirst.com Welcomes Cartoonist Jerry King to the Team, Let the Snarky Cartoony Madness Begin!

I’m really excited to welcome award winning cartoonist Jerry King on board with EarthFirst.com. Jerry has drawn toons in all sorts of well known mags and has thousands of greeting cards under his belt. He’ll be skewing his focus green for us here at EarthFirst.com and I’ll be bouncing ideas over to him when cartoonish things pop up in the news cycle.

We’ll carry Jerry’s green cartoon once a week in addition to a weekly caption contest.

Here’s EarthFirst.com’s Comix #1. Print this sucker out, it’ll be worth a few million bucks in 50 years (which will be worth about $.22 by then).

Thanks to my pal Yan over at Geeks Are Sexy for passing on Jerry’s contact info.

Al Gore’s Travelin’ Global Warming Show is Rolling Into Your Town

Al Gore’s Travelin’ Global Warming Show FTW

Bad News Planeteers, Captain Planet Will NOT Be Going Live Action

Damn. The rumors of an upcoming live action Captain Planet and the Planeteers appears to be false.

Ecorazzi was the first to report the news that Warner Brothers was planning on producing a live action movie with the blue skinned, green haired eco super hero scheduled for late 2009. They had it:

Fire up the rumor mill, Planeteers! A recent entry to the somewhat-reliable Wikipedia info on Captain Planet (I check it everyday) says something interesting about our favorite green animated superhero.

Warner Brothers studio announced on January 18, 2008 that a live action movie is to be made and is scheduled for late 2009. The movie is currently in pre-production.

Oh. Dead. God. They can’t be serious, can they? A live-action version of the blue-skin, green-haired protector of Mother Earth and his five planeteers?

But Gristmill went and got all journalistic and called up Warner Brothers to confirm the news and came up with the unfortunate report that the rumors weren’t true.

Sadly, though, I must report that I then contacted the Warner folks (and their bros) and found out that this rumor is, in fact, “untrue.”

I know, I know. I too am crushed. But before you get your superhero-tights in a bunch, consider this: perhaps by our powers combined we could petition them to reconsider?

Damn. Damn damn damn.

Link [Gristmill] & [Ecorazzi]