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Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Exclamation Marx posted:

Pththya-lyi stop trolling chris muir and then bragging about it here jesus christ

It's not me.

e. But I will stop posting the DbD comments, they're not very fun

Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jan 3, 2015

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Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
:britain:

Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on the Conservative election campaign – David Cameron is to launch a controversial Conservative advertisement claiming the party has halved the deficit while in government"

Independent:

After Degas.

Times:

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
I'm anticipating Muir's introduction of a Greek woman into his comic.

Fulchrum
Apr 16, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Twelve by Pies posted:

I believe Freep has a political cartoons thread but it's not as active as this one, and yeah they hate all the cartoonists we love, and love all the cartoonists we hate.

Oh except Rall. They hate Rall too, though I think maybe they occasionally like his "Obama (and Hilary) are dumb and evil" comics even if overall they think he's terrible. It's been a while since it was brought up so my memory is fuzzy.

Do they have an evil version of Pants Donkey?

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Shadow of the Colossus has a more colorful palette than I remembered.

CampingCarl
Apr 28, 2008




Twelve by Pies posted:

I believe Freep has a political cartoons thread but it's not as active as this one, and yeah they hate all the cartoonists we love, and love all the cartoonists we hate.

Oh except Rall. They hate Rall too, though I think maybe they occasionally like his "Obama (and Hilary) are dumb and evil" comics even if overall they think he's terrible. It's been a while since it was brought up so my memory is fuzzy.
Maybe we aren't so different after all. Rall will get his wish to be at the front of a new revolution, just not as its leader but as someone both sides want up against the wall first.

Edit: I tried to look at Freep but their search is so terrible that I didn't much that was interesting.

CampingCarl fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jan 3, 2015

Warcabbit
Apr 26, 2008

Wedge Regret

Capt. Sticl posted:

Steve Breen with, I think, the first obituary cartoon of the year:



He has a fairly clean/crisp art style that I like. Nice looking one from December:


Terrifying, isn't it?

mandatory lesbian
Dec 18, 2012

E-Tank posted:

Hey, Gal Tea, get an account and come try and convert us godless socialist heathens to your pure libertarian strain. :allears:

Realtalk if you want to talk, we're probably willing to listen and chat back, and as long as you don't apply circular logic, biased sources, and the like .. . We'd probably be able to have a conversation.

That said Chris Muir is a creepy gently caress who thinks that if you're married you don't get to say no when your husband wants to gently caress.

People going on other websites and trolling doesn't bother me but this poo poo is weird as hell.

Post 9-11 User
Apr 14, 2010

I don't know what the opossum represents but I'm in love. If I had more scratch I'd edit this down and purchase :vopossum: :v:

HisMajestyBOB
Oct 21, 2010


College Slice

Exclamation Marx posted:

Pththya-lyi stop trolling chris muir and then bragging about it here jesus christ


French parliament votes for recognition of Palestinian state...now what?


I am very amused by Parliamentarians saying "Blah" instead of "Aye".

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


Xander77 posted:

I don't think that was too bad. But this reminds me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3I4q-WwFGQ

Figures of note: Minin and Pozharsky, Chapaev, Mathias Rust.

...

Actually, that poo poo is too depressingly real. Have this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D695DaPPSZw

I don't fully understand the first one, although if I had to guess I'd say it's about patriotism. Is that correct?

Also, is the second one supposed to be sincere? Because it's almost so pro-Putin and over the top that it comes off as sarcastic.

Xander77
Apr 6, 2009

Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.



quote:

Also, is the second one supposed to be sincere? Because it's almost so pro-Putin and over the top that it comes off as sarcastic.
Check out the fishing bit on detail. Or it could be joking on the square.


Space Cadet Omoly posted:

I don't fully understand the first one, although if I had to guess I'd say it's about patriotism. Is that correct?
To the extent that every other cartoon in this thread is about patriotism, yes. In other words, not as such.

Look, you're seeing the same imperialistic Mickey Mouse (fantastic avatar material btw), government officials tearing apart the red square for private dachas and various nationalities attempting to carve apart the great Russian cake as I am. You have links to those figures that are not easily identifiable to a Western viewer. At this point you have about as much info as I do.

...

Edit:
"And how can we win if we are so easily bought
How can we win, if we are so easily sold

Wide is our Motherland
High up is the President - our father
You could keep on stealing for a thousand years
But eventually...
(subverted rhyme - you're expecting "we are hosed" instead of:)

Ah, there comes a new dawn
Fellows, we don't want to live in vain.

How abundant is our Motherland
Earth and gold and even oil
We could live here and never come to grief
So whence comes this...

Ah, there comes a new dawn
Fellows, we should not live in vain.

And how can we win if we are so easily bought
How can we win, if we are so easily sold

Oh so powerful is our Motherland
Tanks, cruisers, and good old lead (Mickey Mouse here)
But who is now willing to fight for it?
And again, there comes...

Ah, there comes a new dawn
Fellows let us not live in vain.

How can arrange things to everyone's liking
So they finally stop taking things apart (not going to go through the entire song, but this bit corresponds to the cake carving)
So that we'll all be alive come morning
Otherwise, we will all come to be...

Oh, a new dawn is coming
Fellows we are not living in vain.

And how can we win if we are so easily bought
How can we win, if we are so easily sold

so easily sold ..."

Xander77 fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Jan 3, 2015

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Pththya-lyi posted:

John Muir was a great naturalist, the father of American conservationism, and an actual badass. (He used to climb trees in thunderstorms so he could sway in the wind.) Chris isn't fit to lick his boots.

He was in the National Parks thing that Ken Burns did, correct?

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!
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2

3

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JaggerMcDagger
Feb 13, 2012

Bringing you Barry from the sordid depths of the Internet
"My goal was to die!"

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

JaggerMcDagger posted:

"My goal was to die!"

Genie, you're free.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012


Ah yes, I remember how Governor Cuomo balanced the state budget by punching blocks to find hidden coins.

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Selachian posted:

Ah yes, I remember how Governor Cuomo balanced the state budget by punching blocks to find hidden coins.

There's a joke about Long Island goombas in here somewhere, but I just can't make it work.

Neodoomium
Jun 20, 2001

You are now hearing this
noise in your head.



loving stop putting words in dead peoples' mouths, you dopes!

Warcabbit
Apr 26, 2008

Wedge Regret
I could actually see Cuomo saying the 'loftier' line.

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012


Ugly and stupid, even by Chip Bok's standards.

Chip Bok posted:

When the US Embassy in Benghazi was hit by terrorists the White House was quick to blame the attack on another lousy movie, Innocence of Muslims. Our own Dear Leader’s passion for free speech blazed less fervently in those days. The movie’s producer was thrown in jail.

Except him being thrown in jail had nothing to do with bashing Muslims. Chip's either too dumb to figure that out or is lying to his audience. Either works for a cog in the wingnut poo poo machine.

Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT

D.N. Nation posted:

Except him being thrown in jail had nothing to do with bashing Muslims. Chip's either too dumb to figure that out or is lying to his audience. Either works for a cog in the wingnut poo poo machine.

Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk

Samuel Clemens posted:

Government spending? Higher taxes? Sure sounds like commie claptrap to me.

1950s was a different time :P

Also note that the devil called the patriotic everyman a "liberal", like it was dirty. The thing is, being anti-communist was considered a liberal thing back then.

LaughMyselfTo
Nov 15, 2012

by XyloJW
So I was watching Foodfight! the other day, and is there any chance that Muir had a job on it for some time? It seemed very stylistically similar to DbD, particularly in its depiction of women.

Sandpuppy
Jun 16, 2012

Social Abscess
of the
Universe

This is the anti-Gorrell.

Mister Beeg
Sep 7, 2012

A Certified Jerk

LaughMyselfTo posted:

So I was watching Foodfight! the other day, and is there any chance that Muir had a job on it for some time? It seemed very stylistically similar to DbD, particularly in its depiction of women.

You know, I'm convinced that working on that movie is what led to Charlie Sheen to officially go crazy.

Vox Valentine
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Mister Beeg posted:

You know, I'm convinced that working on that movie is what led to Charlie Sheen to officially go crazy.
That or I'm pretty sure it causes Wayne Brady to occasionally look at himself in the mirror and resist crying and feeling shame when he looks into his own eyes.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

LaughMyselfTo posted:

So I was watching Foodfight! the other day, and is there any chance that Muir had a job on it for some time? It seemed very stylistically similar to DbD, particularly in its depiction of women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPnPe08-wM

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

It's rare to get the best looking cartoon of the year on the first week of January.

The Skeleton King
Jul 16, 2011

Right now undead are at the top of my shit list. Undead are complete fuckers. Those geists are fuckers. Necromancers are fuckers. Necrosavants are big time fuckers. Skeletons aren't too bad except when they bleed everyone in the company. Zombos are at least not too bad.


After reading the Gay Abortions Awards thread for 2014, I realized that nearly all of the cartoons and categories were from the second half of 2014. I feel like there should be a first-half-of-2015 mini-abortion awards so that we don't exclude the earlier cartoons.

LaughMyselfTo
Nov 15, 2012

by XyloJW

THE MOON! posted:

After reading the Gay Abortions Awards thread for 2014, I realized that nearly all of the cartoons and categories were from the second half of 2014. I feel like there should be a first-half-of-2015 mini-abortion awards so that we don't exclude the earlier cartoons.

How about every four months? We could call them the first, second, and third trimester Gay Abortions Awards.

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib
How about a gay abortion every month?

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


LaughMyselfTo posted:

How about every four months? We could call them the first, second, and third trimester Gay Abortions Awards.

I like this :mmmhmm:

Cpt.Americant
Mar 30, 2010

LaughMyselfTo posted:

How about every four months? We could call them the first, second, and third trimester Gay Abortions Awards.

That's some good timing too, long enough to get a lot of contenders without being so long as to forget the earlier in the year stuff. Even the categories seemed to be biased towards the end of the year, I mean a whole category for The Interview?

Technowolf
Nov 4, 2009




Today's Marshall Ramsey:






This batch finishes up most of the major stuff that happened in Mississippi. After this I think I'll do a big weekend post of Ramsey's cartoons (skipping any minor local stuff).

General US/international issues

(1)

Politians, amiright?

(2)

Obama bad president pee pee doo doo

General State stuff

(3)

Mississippi has a lovely education system and every year the legislature tries everything some things to try and fix that, usually new education standards or redisigning the way teachers are paid (instead of fully funding education according to MAEP. One of the latest "ideas" is merit-based teacher pay, wherein teacher pay is set by how well the students perform on tests. Just about every non-politician (and even a few politicians!) in the state knows that this is a horrible idea.

(4)

Combining the above with another great horrible law. This year, MS passed a new law that required families on TANF to take a questionnaire to screen them for possible drug use. Out of 3656 applicants, only 38 were chosen for testing, and out of those, only 2 families tested positive (that's 5% of 1%, or .05%). This means that either (a) there aren't that many families on TANF that do drugs, (b) questionnaires aren't a very good tool for catching drug offenders, (c) MS sucks at random selections, or (d) all of the above. (Who are we kidding? It's D)

(5)

Mississippians don't know how to deal with cold weather. Also, our roadways suck. Seriously. "The Stack" is the local name for the combination of I-55 and I-20 and Mississippi highway 49 into one roadway, while the Waterworks curves are a series of S-curves located near the Jackson City Waterworks (hence the name) that are either accident prone (if people take the curves too fast) or bottlenecks (if people slow down to take the curves).

(6)

Current governor Phil Bryant is one of the gigantic assholes true Americans who decided to NOT expand Mississippi's division of Medicaid (thus losing out on Federal grant money) and has not pushed for fully funding education (thus losing out on Federal grant money). Well, it's not like we need that Federal money because we're the poorest state in the nati - OH WAIT WE ARE!

(7)

MS prisons are horribly run, and inmates regularly escape from them. Even worse is the smuggling, with cell phones and drugs rampant and guards regularly doing the smuggling. (The local paper even did a week long series on this here.) Fortunately, the inmates are dumb enough to use the cell phones to post selfies, including one who posed eating a smuggled turkey leg.

(8)

Of course, the big story was that our state DoC commissioner, Chris Epps, had been indicted in a massive federal bribery scandal involving giving a local businessman multiple "no-bid" contracts for prison services in exchange for multiple cashier's checks to pay off Epps's mortgages, and cash. Actual cold, hard cash that Epps kept in a safe in his home. Epps now faces up to 368 years in prison.

The good thing is that these scandals have made state government take a good look at how the prison system works to try and fix these problems.

Gloryhold It!
Sep 22, 2008

Fucking
Adorable

LaughMyselfTo posted:

How about every four months? We could call them the first, second, and third trimester Gay Abortions Awards.


If nothing else, there should be nominees and categories from each section of the year.

beepsandboops
Jan 28, 2014
:colbert:

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Technowolf posted:


(1)

Politians, amiright?

Wow, what a thoroughly original joke.

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Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Why do British cartoonists all use Bell's caricatures? It's really weird.

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