Keyboardist Blaine Thurier is a well-known cartoonist and filmmaker.

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He is currently working on a graphic novel with Guardian cartoonist Steven Appleby.

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The 650 projects which have so far succeeded in meeting their funding goals through Kickstarter include a woman who is circumnavigating the globe solo by boat, a band recording their first CD and a cartoonist travelling to Afghanistan to do political sketches.

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The parties at war: the make-believe nations of Star and Uran in Karubeki Sekai ("The World That Is Coming"), a futuristic epic by the late Japanese cartoonist Tezuka Osamu.

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But with all there is to make fun of, it's a great time to be a cartoonist for the New Yorker.

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