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baka kaba posted:And what kind of bird is that, looming above the treeline in the far distance? Is it a T-Rex? Does the queen know Unix systems? It's a black grouse and it's looming above a heatherline in the close-distance.
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May 28, 2013 00:27
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Cloud Potato posted:Daily Mail: Wow, this is terrible
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May 28, 2013 16:19
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Mac sure is big on his "poor blokes having to deal with their WIVES and their NEEDS" stories
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This whole Syrian arms thing is getting depressing, feels like another proxy war is going to be on full throttle.  Cloud Potato posted:Daily Mail: Going back to this from the page before, this was in the news yesterday. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/help-heroes-charity-not-accept-1916745 quote:Help for Heroes charity will not accept donations raised by English Defence League. Guardian:   First 2 IF.. strips for week.  Steve Bell on the EU-Russia plans for providing arms in Syria. Russia says it will supply anti-aircraft missiles to Assad regime after EU ends its arms embargo on the country's rebels. It's also a homage to Les Gibbard. Russia slams EU move to lift arms ban on Syrian rebels. http://www.france24.com/en/20130528-eu-lifts-arms-embargo-syria-opposition-rebels-diplomacy-hague US calls Russian arms sales to Syrian government a 'mistake' – live updates • Obama asks Pentagon to draw up plan for Syria no-fly zone-report • Russia to send anti-aircraft missiles to deter 'hotheads' • London and Paris force EU to let arms embargo lapse • US policy unrelated to EU decision, state department says • Investigation finds chemical weapons exposure http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/may/28/eu-lifts-arms-embargo-on-syrian-rebels-live-updates Telegraph:  DEBT MOUNTAIN!  Indy:  Express:  A thing happened and a person died = political cartoon. Bill Pertwee, who played Warden Hodges in Dad's Army, has died, his agent has confirmed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22680499 Vandals deface two London war memorials with 'Islam' graffiti. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/vandals-deface-two-london-war-memorials-with-islam-graffiti-8633386.html ____ For both the Indy and Telegraph one its this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22684993 quote:George Osborne: Seven departments agree new cuts. 
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May 29, 2013 00:26
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Never penned Steve Bell as a GI Joe fan. That being said, William Hague does strikes me as Destro with the whole arms trafficking. 
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May 29, 2013 04:26
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Plutonis posted:Never penned Steve Bell as a GI Joe fan. That being said, William Hague does strikes me as Destro with the whole arms trafficking. It's COBR/COBRA (they removed the A but people still call it COBRA lol). quote:Cabinet Office Briefing Room, a secure facility of the United Kingdom government that co-ordinates action during an emergency, previously known as Cabinet Office Briefing Room A  
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May 29, 2013 04:44
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The old man is literally reading the words in the speech bubble.
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May 29, 2013 11:02
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Fluo posted:Guardian: What's happened to "Badger" Courage? Has he finally been retired? 
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May 29, 2013 11:12
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Guardian: "British forces are detaining up to 85 Afghan nationals at Camp Bastion, in what may be deemed unlawful detention" The online version seems to be quite badly cropped, missing the website link on the right and the wheels of the stretcher below. Telegraph:  Independent:  Daily Mail:  quote:‘Typical. It’s the weekend, you’re relaxing with friends in the pub, then some b*****d has to have an emergency operation!’ Express: 
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May 30, 2013 18:19
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God drat it Mac that'd be a decent comic if not for that black dude.
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May 30, 2013 18:42
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Cloud Potato posted:Express: Get that cat off the worksurface, you cook food there. And also stop reading the Express. Check out that fox on the fence though. Pretty sweet. "Hey fox, decided already" is what I'd say.
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May 30, 2013 18:45
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Mr. Squishy posted:Get that cat off the worksurface, you cook food there. And also stop reading the Express. Pretty sure that cat is in a litter box on the kitchen top... Which is precisely the sort of thing those EU fatcats want to ban good British households from doing.
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May 30, 2013 19:08
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Last two If... cartoons this week! 
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May 30, 2013 19:43
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I feel like I've seen entirely too much of the Prime Minister's cartoon breasts.
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Forums Terrorist posted:God drat it Mac that'd be a decent comic if not for that black dude. Um what's wrong with the black dude?
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May 30, 2013 20:33
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He's drawn the way Mac draws all black people, which is to say literally pitch black.
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May 30, 2013 20:34
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At least he's not.
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Flython posted:At least he's not. Huh, 2001. That's 30 to 40 years after the date I would have guessed.
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May 30, 2013 22:01
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cafel posted:Huh, 2001. That's 30 to 40 years after the date I would have guessed. Bear in mind he was 65 when he drew that, so he's pretty much grown up in an openly institutionally racist time and environment. It's a horrible racist cartoon, but you can't really expect too much from Mac. That the Daily Mail thought it was acceptable to publish though, cripes.
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May 30, 2013 23:26
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*zot* Never mind, I saw the newspaper. I was thinking of a different time period.
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Yeah MAC is generally outright racist. From the first page: Fluo posted:Stanley McMurtry aka MAC [From the Daily Mail]
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May 31, 2013 00:13
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I want to know which ones contain portraits of his wife. Also nice work by him getting a racist black person caricature into the football crowd too, don't think I spotted that one before.
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May 31, 2013 01:43
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I know about mac. That doesn't make the black guy in the operating room any more racist. Everything mac does=racist Everything Steve Bell does=never racist, you American you don't know anything!
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May 31, 2013 01:57
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The hospital one really isn't racist. e: Uh I mean the new one, not the one with a loving witch doctor
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May 31, 2013 02:05
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Irony Be My Shield posted:The hospital one really isn't racist.
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May 31, 2013 02:37
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It's more that Mac's style involves shading black people as literally black (sometimes with two staring eyes under a hoodie) instead of, y'know, a more realistic grey. He seems to have been better recently but he's actually a talented cartoonist, so you can't pin it on sheer technical ineptitude (obvious reference goes here). I still don't like that cartoon because it's the usual reactionary 'uncaring NHS staff not doing their jobs properly' wankery
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May 31, 2013 03:15
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Am I the only one who can see the ridiculously enormous lips he's drawn on his black guy?
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May 31, 2013 10:38
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I don't think that just drawing a black person as black is, in and of itself, racist. Like he probably would have drawn the racist gollywog face on him if he was facing the other direction, but as it is he just put a black person in the cartoon without saying he's a criminal or a witch doctor, which seems like progress
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May 31, 2013 13:20
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Hey, guys! An American cartoonist has weighed in on UKanian affairs, and I know you're always looking to hear more wisdom from our Yank illustrators.
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May 31, 2013 13:30
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Aha! A very clever take on the classic "lions led by donkeys" quote. The cartoonist has inserted another player into the quote: the sheep. They represent the media, shown here as a group of stalkers wielding cameras while standing idly by. The cartoon makes the very valid point that the government (offscreen donkeys) are held enthralled to the media's sensationalism, and the repercussions of these populist, hatemongering opinions falls on the poorest of society (represented here by the lion, the British working class man enrolled in the army), which in turn are then reported without greater context by the media. A comment on how the masquerade feeds itself in a cyclical fashion. A Good Cartoon. The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 31, 2013 |
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May 31, 2013 13:42
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prefect posted:Hey, guys! An American cartoonist has weighed in on UKanian affairs, and I know you're always looking to hear more wisdom from our Yank illustrators. e: or that ^^
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big scary monsters posted:To start with I had no idea what the cartoonist was even trying to say, but I think I figured out that it's criticizing bystanders for not pulling out guns instead of phones and shooting the killers full of holes. Oh, yeah. You've learned to understand Mike Lester.  I'll stop sullying your thread with our horrible cartoons now. 
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From the If... Archive In the summer of 1981, the Guardian was looking to have a recurring cartoon strip of its very own; so they went out and found a man with a beard.  That was his idea; a different suggestion every day.  It's not hard to see why this format didn't last long; there just isn't enough time to properly expand and play with most of the concepts, and they just come off as pithy and shallow. If... began appear in the paper in its original form in November 1981.  There were a few recurring themes. "If...X were a Social Democrat", "If...(Party) were a Y", and so on; but come the new year, the different-suggestion idea was dropped and the strip began doing whatever the hell it pleased.  The strip began to take its current form, examining some particular thing or proposition for a week (or more) at a time; that was the last effort from the week of the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, won by Woy Jenkins for the SDP. It still focused on direct satire of politicians and politics; but all that changed a month later. The international situation deteriorated rapidly, and there was only one thing that the Navy could do!   (missing)  (I went to Steve Bell's website and found that he's been trying to archive all his old strips on there. There are some gaps where he hasn't yet been able to find individual strips, but it's mostly complete and I think people might be interested in some archive material to fill the gap on Fridays.)
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prefect posted:Hey, guys! An American cartoonist has weighed in on UKanian affairs, and I know you're always looking to hear more wisdom from our Yank illustrators. Why does the attacker have red hands before he's landed a blow? And why do his sheep look like camels? That cartoon is loving terrible too.
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prefect posted:Hey, guys! An American cartoonist has weighed in on UKanian affairs, and I know you're always looking to hear more wisdom from our Yank illustrators.
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Guardian: "The European commission has been accused of a land grab by the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith" Telegraph:  Tories 'n' Europe. Independent:  Archaeopteryx restored in fossil reshuffle;  Daily Mail:  quote:‘Yes, it is a bit bumpy. That’s where the taxman was standing when our heavy roller accidentally went over him.’ Express:  The return of Big News Sign!
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Has he always been hiding foxes everywhere or is this a new thing? e: Hopefully soon, the Express cartoon will drown itself in easter eggs. Each one will just be a mosaic of wild-life hiding behind one another.
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Maybe he's in favour of relegalising fox hunting? That is a pretty terrible "a thing happened" cartoon, though. I think it's actually less substantive than just a headline saying the same thing.Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph:
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