[mmnmp20]

JJ, I've been reading your comics ever since they came out, so it's pretty sad for me that this is the end. I'm almost sure that at least every week or so I visited filibustercartoons, along with a good Canuck friend of mine. Oh well. Good luck in whatever you wsnt to succeed in. I hear you live in Japan now. How's that going?

[FyreWulff]

Good luck, I've enjoyed reading your comics ever since I saw your early ones at RareOPs.

[TwoHundredOK]

First Cox & Forkum and now this! Is any web-editorial cartoon site safe? So, what, I have Tom Toles left and that's about it now. Amazing that there can be such a dearth of well-drawn political insight on the web while things like Jerkcity thrive.

Well, this was my favorite online comic- it's definitely sad to see it go.

[JaketheSnake]

Thanks for your work. I've enjoyed your comics for a few years now. I imagine that you're right; you probably could have garnered more views if you had taken a hard-right/left stance or riffed on the US every week or never mentioned a word about Canada, but that's just the kind of stuff I'm glad you avoided.

I have to say, I always enjoyed your style. It's so refreshing compared to most political cartoons. Hopefully things go well for you in Japan. I'm always interested to hear about JET-type programs. Bad or good, it's always entertaining. Perhaps you will return and draw again some day. Good luck!

- Jake

[GenericHito]

Here's a personal favorite.

So no one's going to say it? I see how it is, shove the responsibility of cheesy wordplay onto me. Well if no one else is going to say it, then I guess I'll have to.

Sayounara JJ.

[SillyGirl]

Thanks for taking 8 years to make this amazing archive of political cartoons I've visted this site for about year and it was great to have some contact with politics because as a highschool student the most politics I get is who gets voted to watch the table at lunch. I am going to miss this comic, but I understand that you have your reasons so thank you.

[CanadianJeff]

This is going to be one of my most missed comics. Truth be told the newspapers wouldn't know a good political cartoonist if one slapped them in the head. Good luck out there JJ and I would say publishing your guide to Canada in print would be a most excellent idea.

[CaliShark]

Tragic. Yours was one of the few political cartoons that I could enjoy, regardless of whether I agreed.

Now I'll have to be the majority and dislike all political cartoons.

[Kjorteo]

I realize I am way way way late here, but sadly, I've had more than my fair share of busyness on this end. Anyway....

I greatly enjoyed the cartoon, not just for the cartoon itself but for the atmosphere it attracted in the subsequent discussions. Hell, the whole thing with me and Psudo couldn't have happened without the comic there to spark discussion. However, I understand creator disinterest (I have more than a few abandoned projects of my own) and respect your decision to move on. Thanks for the awesome comic while it lasted.

And the guide to Canada in print would be an awesome idea. In fact, I'll bet that if you padded it out a bit and maybe either combined it with the archives somehow or just drew more cartoons to illustrate the various points you're trying to make (such as what you did with Michaelle Jean's entry in the Governor Generals list) you could probably get it to roughly standard book-size and have a decent chance of publishing it. I know I'd buy a copy.

[fire_i]

Another belated response from a fan here...

I just read your "goodbye post", and honestly I felt kind of heart-wrenched inside. In my life I've followed over 25 webcomics, including about 5 or 6 political ones, and Filibuster was not only the one I followed for the longest time (and running), but the last political cartoon I read at all.

Loved everything you made. It's a shame it had to end, though of course I understand your reasons.

Best of luck to you in life, and thanks for your creativity and the fun I had reading your comics and debating them!

[Psudo]

I was reading through some old chat logs of mine for unrelated reasons and came across this conversation from 2/4/07 2:34 PM MT.

<Psudo> I'm a little depressed today. One of my old online hangouts has become such a misery of depressive, self-defeating rheotric [sic] that I can't stand visiting anymore. A beautiful thing died.
<Rachel> that's too bad. you'll have to find a new hangout!
<Psudo> I have a new hangout already. Canadian political forum started by a web cartoonist. =]
<Psudo> I still disagree with everyone, but it's much more upbeat.

I didn't mention that the arguments were largely of a higher, better reasoned quality. Nonetheless, history repeats itself. Except this time I don't have a new hangout lined up. I think my political forum experience has peaked, and there's nowhere left to go but down.

[Kjorteo]

I wonder if it's worth trying to get some contact info to keep in touch with some of my more favorite regulars from here so we can keep in touch. Though, actually, the biggest ones that come to mind are fire_i and Psudo, the former of which I already found again on a certain art site. So basically, what I'm saying is that I need a way to keep in touch with Psudo.

[stratos]

Thank you for all the great cartoons. I've enjoyed them over the past couple years. I dont always agree with your statements on the subject but could still find myself chuckeling at what you created. You have a great talent and a bright future still to come I'm sure.

Jason

[Psudo]

E-mail/Google Chat: thepsudo@gmail.com
ICQ: 43238020
MSN: psud0@hotmail.com
AIM: SoulPsudo

Plenty of ways to drop me a line. Anyone claiming to be Kjorteo will be gladly accepted onto my contact list. Generally speaking, I'm drifting more toward the offline world since there isn't much left to pull me back in.

[Taospark]

In somewhat related news, cartoonists over on the American side are also having trouble too. Here's a US cartoonist who's won several awards that's been turned down by newspapers in an industry that is apparently so small that only a dozen or so political cartoonists are still employed.