This manifesto appeared in the second issue of the Tucson Comic News, and I still pretty much agree with my 36-year-old self on this stuff. Fortuitously, the seventh paragraph led to a publisher calling me up and asking if I'd like to expand it into a book....
It's something of a tradition for the first issue of a new publication to carry a “Statement of Principles” from the publisher, a la Charles Foster Kane. Of course, now that I'm a capitalist, my principles have to take a back seat to the imperatives of business. Therefore I spent a good chunk of this space in the first issue begging people to support my advertisers (look for further begging elsewhere in this issue).
Having got that out of the way, though, I think it's only fair to be upfront about my biases. I don't think there is any such thing as objective journalism, so I feel that's the least I can do. Most of you already have a sense of where I'm coming from based on the cartoons I pick, but since I'm paying for this space, here are a few of the political axioms I live by.
