Fluo posted:

Steve Bell's cartoon for tomorrow, posted early:

Geokinesis posted:

Gustave Doré did illustrations for an edition of Divine Comedy, that one is from the Inferno part.

Fluo posted:

Steve Bell's cartoon for tomorrow, posted early:

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WHO'S BIG ENOUGH?

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Mac's tribute to Mrs Thatcher in the Mail after she resigned on November 22, 1990

Forums Terrorist posted:

No he didn't, that's a reprint.

Fluo posted:

Indy:

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Thatcher: A Dole Playing Game http://imgur.com/a/zwHfd

Fluo, OP posted:

The most successful comic strips depend more on the right villain than any hero or combination of protagonists, so this quirky little oddment was better placed than most for success. Created by British legends Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson this strident, polemical satire puts the boot in on the appalling tactics and philosophies of the third term Thatcher government with savagely hilarious art and stunningly biting writing.

The concept is simple now but groundbreaking in 1987. The reader is to be Prime Minister Maggie who, by reading sections of the book and selecting a choice of action at the end of each chapter is directed to another page to experience the ramifications of that decision. The objective is to win another election, and the method is to make only vote-winning decisions – thus the multiple-choice page-endings. The intention is not to win the game, obviously.

This powerful piece of graphic propaganda may have dated on some levels but the home-truths are still as pertinent. Even as Maggie and her demented pack of lap-dogs wriggled and squirmed on Mills and Emerson’s pen-points, their legacy of personal gain was supplanting both personal and communal responsibility to become the new norm. Today’s Britain is their fault and this book still reminds us of a struggle too few joined and a fight we should have won, but didn’t.

It’s still really, really funny though…

Fluo posted:

(Couldn't find the fullscale one )

Fluo posted:

Thatcher, Thatcher, THATCHER, thatcher.

Guardian:

BastardySkull posted:

Really not keen on this.

Fluo posted:

Some more bits and bobs of Thatcher

BastardySkull posted:

Really not keen on this.

Kegluneq posted:

Thanks for that, some of those are amazing.

Agreed - I can see the logic behind it, as a satirical reversal of Osborne's revolting position, but it's hugely insensitive both to the families of the children and to other women and children in similar family set ups.

BastardySkull posted:

Well yeah its sort of riffing on an abusive relationship filled with domestic violence to make a 'satirical' and 'humorous' gag about Osborne, Clegg and Cameron and their relationship but it's just loving crass he needs to stop.

Fluo posted:

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“Once we get there, does anyone know the way to St Pauls?”

Fluo posted:

goatface posted:

Before I read the caption, I thought that Mac was suggesting that now she was dead the Falklands would be immediately abandoned.

Definitely a rats-fleeing-a-sinking-ship type thing.

Cloud Potato posted:

Independent:



Yeah, I got nothing.

Pesky Splinter posted:

It's a parody of Millais' Ophelia.

LP97S posted:

Maybe it's because Ed's gone crazy like most of new Labour (with the whole "We can out Tory the Tories") and should just drown.

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The Tories, according to polling conducted for The Sun over Tuesday and Wednesday, have slumped to 28 per cent, while Labour are up at 42 per cent, raising fears among Tory supporters that the very public outpouring of grief at the passing of the Great Warrior Queen might have backfired. (The Lib Dems just squeaked home ahead of UKIP – with 12 per cent to the Farage teram's 11 per cent.)

Niric posted:

I'm not really seeing the connection between Ophelia and Ed; am I just being dense here? As far as I can tell, the cartoon is suggesting that the (affected) grief at Thatcher's death is drowning (out) Miliband and/or leaving him floundering. And this makes him like Ophelia because she also drowned?

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Ophelia has fallen into the river from a tree overhanging it, while gathering flowers. She lies in the water singing songs, as if unaware of her danger ("incapable of her own distress"). Her clothes, trapping air, have allowed her to temporarily stay afloat ("Her clothes spread wide, / And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up."). But eventually, "her garments, heavy with their drink, / Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay" down "to muddy death."

Fluo posted:

how its drawn you're meant to hate them but like the other 3. Note the policeman has his weapon under his waist, where as the anarchist has it above (with added Molotov!).

Irvine Welsh posted:

We can see them, gettin ready, wi their helmets, short shields and batons.
‘This is outrageous,’ one old Yorkshire miner says, eyes seared with rage, ‘they ain’t used riot squads against pickets in this coontry!’
‘Them fookin small shields,’ another gadgie shouts, ‘they’re for aggro, not fookin defendin their sen!’
The boy’s called it right, cause as we stand our ground, the bastards charge forward and it’s loving mental.

baka kaba posted:

Maybe it's a comment on how all the affected grieving and tributes are being used to push the Tory agenda, and Miliband is happily floating along with it, unaware that it's going to punish him

Cloud Potato posted:

Guardian:


"Former prime minister says party must remain firmly rooted in the centre ground."

Cloud Potato posted:

Look at the selection bar at the bottom. They've uploaded the same comic every day this week. How have they not noticed this?

Fluo posted:

Gotta love the Torygraph trying to make it out as partiers / protesters are all part of Black Bloc type kind of thing. There will always be some there but they're not the loving core of it, how its drawn you're meant to hate them but like the other 3. Note the policeman has his weapon under his waist, where as the anarchist has it above (with added Molotov!).

Cliff Racer posted:

So? The whole thread is full of people doing that to groups that they dislike.