God, Tom Tomorrow’s strip this week couldn’t be more right-on. Some of it is below; go here for the rest. If you’re not a Salon subscriber, you’ll have to watch an ad first, but it’s worth it.

First Shakespeare porn, now this (probably not work-safe):

Who knew that Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl were into hot incest action? Or that Elastigirl likes to engage in sticky, athletic sex with Syndrome, her nemesis?

And the Incredibles aren’t the only cartoon characters doing very naughty things behind the scenes: Futurama’s Leela loves getting it robot-style from Bender. Even the characters from The Family Guy are getting reamed in every hole. It’s all happening at the Drunk Toon Party:

Welcome to the Drunk Toon Party! Lots of famous cartoon characters, like world-known families, villains and super heroes, young chicks and guys craving for sex, - are all gathered here! This party brings you extreme hot party fucks, chick blowjobs and drunk lesbos….

Could you possibly imagine that toons could do things like that? Oh, yeah, you probably thought they were fast asleep in their beds. Not tonight. They’re getting really naughty at this incredible party! What’s more, they only got started! Other famous toon heroes promised to come over for some wild fun, too. You can’t miss it! Join us at the hottest party!

The weirdest thing about the site: It isn’t just a repository for lurid drawings by bored, undersexed, underemployed, easily amused illustrators. It’s a commercial operation apparently aimed at people who are actually turned on by this sort of porn. To access anything more than a handful of thumbnail galleries and promo pages, visitors must pay a hefty membership fee: $14.95 for three days, $34.95 for one month, or $54.95 for two months. Are there really enough deep-pocketed cartoon character fetishists in the world to sustain a pay site devoted to Wilma fucking Barney or Fred giving it to Daphne and Velma doggy-style? The site is probably just a vehicle for identity theft or credit card theft, but still.

Last year The Onion’s culture section had this to say about Big Top, my pal Rob Harrell’s nationally syndicated comic strip: “Rob Harrell possesses a classicist’s sense of comic timing … using panel space as well as any comics-page humorist since, yes, Berkeley Breathed.” Andrews McMeel, the publisher of all the Doonesbury collections, just put out the first-ever collection of Big Top strips. My copy arrived from Amazon this week.

I wrote about Rob a few months ago in one of my first posts. We’ve known each other since middle school, when he was a Bloom County fanatic who amused himself by sketching pneumatic babes and other things in his notebook when he was bored in class. You can read Rob’s daily Big Top strips at ucomics.com.

Also received from Amazon this week: a copy of Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames—The d’Antin Manuscript. I’ve owned a xerox of this clever and hilarious book for about 20 years, but I’ve never owned a copy of the actual book. Oddly, my new copy has the appearance of a cheap bootleg: Both the cover and the pages inside were obviously reproduced from a mediocre photocopy of an earlier edition, not from the original plates. Given that the publisher is Penguin, this is kind of surprising. But I’ll be glad to replace my own tattered photocopy with something I can actually file away on a bookshelf.

The Indianapolis-based artist Rob Harrell and I have been pals since about 1983, when we started the sixth grade together at Binford Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana. Rob is the guy behind the excellent syndicated comic strip Big Top, which runs in several dozen newspapers around the country. Big Top will remind you of Calvin & Hobbes and Bloom County. If there’s a funnier mainstream comic strip being published today, I’m not aware of it. Rob also paints and does commercial illustration; he’s got a brilliant conceptual mind and intimidating technique. The illustration below is from a few years back when he was experimenting a lot with scratchboard techniques. I’m posting it here because I think it’s perfect and hilarious.