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If you’ve ever played Draw Something, then you probably already know that not every drawing is a work of art. If you think you’re alone in creating stick figure Justin Biebers and cows that look like balloon animals, then think again.

I caught up with Draw Something creator Dan Porter - former OMGPop CEO and now Zynga’s Vice President of mobile and general manager for its New York office - about the popular game that ignites gamers’ inner Picasso. Keep reading for his confession of how his own artistic skills may be lacking, and more.

JOE BIDEN forced Barack Obama’s hand into marriage.

Specifically, same-sex marriage.

So goes one of the more common tacks as the nation’s satirists take aim — and decide that the veep “shooting off his mouth,” before Obama expressed his support of gay marriage, is the most inviting comedic target. As everyone from the Onion to Obama himself knows, Biden often makes for a ready, consensus laugh-line.

Editorial cartoonists’ reactions were all over the map, natch, but many of the approaches seemed to fall into similar humorous groupings.

So with that in mind, here are Comic Riffs’ Eight Most Eye-Catching Obama-on-Gay-Marriage Cartoons — divided by editorial angle:

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1. Some artists, such as Scranton’s John Cole and Phoenix’s Steve Benson, constructed their cartoons so Biden is a one-man visual or verbal payoff:

JOHN COLE :

(JOHN COLE / Scranton Times-Tribune / Cagle.com )

STEVE BENSON:

(STEVE BENSON / Arizona Republic / Cagle.com )

2. Other cartoonists, such as Atlanta’s Mike Luckovich, opted for a celebratory sense of the historic...

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MIKE LUCKOVICH :

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“THE TRUTH IS, people can go through their life without editorial cartoons — I just don’t want to let ‘em. I want to stop ’em and make them laugh at the things they’re outraged about, and scream at them for the things that they aren’t.”

So said Matt Bors in his Herblock Prize acceptance speech last week, while addressing a Library of Congress crowd. The Portland-based editorial cartoonist — the first Herblock winner not to have a staff job — was puncturing the notion that political cartoons are some “grand necessity” for a free and just society and functioning democracy.

[HERBLOCK PRIZE CEREMONY: Trudeau and Bors, masters of poignant comic timing]

In Thursday’s talk, which was followed by Garry Trudeau ’s Herblock Lecture, Bors thanked his family, his editors — and all the newspapers that have dropped him, compelling him to work even harder.

Bors — who was by turns poignant and humorous — also noted the predominance of Caucasian dudes who have won the Herblock award (the finalist was Slowpoke Comics’ Jen Sorensen ):

“Yes, I’m a white guy, but I’m the first one to be in his 20s while balding. So, pretty trailblazing of me.”

[WHITHER POLITICAL CARTOONING?  A Conversation With Matt Bors].

To watch Bors’ punch-lines and poignancy, the Herblock Foundation has just posted the video of his entire speech:

BORS’ ACCEPTANCE SPEECH:

JOHNNY DEPP’s alabaster-vampire skin and comic bite could do nothing to slow down the Hulk’s green.

“The Avengers” set another record Sunday, grossing $103.2-million in its second weekend of domestic release, according to studio estimates. That easily tops “Avatar’s” second-weekend mark of $75.6-million. (“Dark Shadows," the eighth Depp/Tim Burton teaming, debuted with an underperforming $28.8-million.)

The Disney/Marvel superhero blockbuster also topped the $1-billion mark globally, according to Box Office Mojo.

Final numbers are expected Monday.

Captain America (Chris Evans) and Ironman/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) continue to lead the Avengers team to box-office records. (Zade Rosenthal - via AP)

TODAY, EVERY TIME you search for it, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.

Google celebrates Mother’s Day with a warm animated Doodle that bears multiple viewings. You could call it “Arms and the Mom.” Or ”Mother O’ Invention.”

Either way: Gee, it’s embraceable.

It may be Google’s best yet for the holiday — more open and inviting than the static single buds and bouquets of some years past. And because the Doodle’s pearls-wearing “G” receives simply a flower, it also rings as a historically fitting tribute, nearly a century after President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother’s Day a national holiday in 1914.

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That’s because the woman who led the push for the U.S. holiday, Anna Jarvis the younger, wanted the celebration marked by, and largely restricted to, the simple giving of flowers and other acts of understated thoughtfulness — “a day of sentiment, not profit.” (According to lore, Jarvis launched the wearing of white carnations to celebrate the day because it was her mother’s favorite type.)

Once Mother Day’s began to blossom into a full-on commercial gift-a-palooza, Jarvis was said to be mighty miffed. She regretted having spawned the holiday, and was arrested as she campaigned furiously to have the day abolished. (Too late, of course — the commercialization and overpriced brunches had taken root.)

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What today’s Doodle reminds us, too, is how poetically and poignantly motherhood has been celebrated in art. Is any iconic image in modern art quite as maternally nurturing to the eye as Mary Cassatt’s “The Child’s Bath” ? Or is any painter’s parent visually referenced as often as Whistler’s mother? (James Abbot McNeill Whistler gifted her with immortality when he painted 1871’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1.”)