Stranger than Fiction

By Ed Stein | January 5th, 2010
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I was going through some old cartoons, looking for work to include in an upcoming show of my work, when I ran across this one from 2006. I thought at the time that exploding underwear was both a funny line and bizarre enough that it was unlikely ever to be a real threat. In a world as crazy as ours, that’s the kind of  assumption a satirist should never make. Last week, sure enough, Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, a Nigerian with al Qaeda links, tried to bring down a plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. Here’s the cartoon. Weird.

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2 Responses to “Stranger than Fiction”

  1. [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Ed Stein, harmanjd. harmanjd said: RT @edsteinink: New blog post: Stranger than Fiction http://edsteinink.com/2010/01/05/stranger-than-fiction/ [...]

  2. FoosMaster says:

    Nostradamus would be proud.

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