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Zeroisanumber posted:A middle-class black family doesn't have the Sixth loving Fleet to call on for back-up. It does in Obama's America 
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Selachian posted:Telnaes elephant. Why is the elephant pouring all that hair into a cup 
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Zanzibar Ham posted:It does in Obama's America After 2017, Obama was translated to Earth-414B by the Multidimensional Witness Protection Program. He now lives in a middle class area, and tell everyone that he was president of the united states before. Theres even a sitcon about it in Earth-414C.
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alnilam posted:Why is the elephant pouring all that hair into a cup Hair of the dog. 
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How in the world can a syndication or opinion page editors look at this and not think this is INCREDIBLY racist? What value does this POS bring to anything? Bok's point (no one cared about the SOTU) isn't right, the metaphor (it's cribbed off of a pic of Babe Ruth's retirement) is strange and non-seasonal/-topical, it's ugly, it's racist, it's pointless. D.N. Nation fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Trogdos! posted:Speak of the devil... Lol I thought he was going to say something super racist at first
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D.N. Nation posted:it's ugly, it's racist, it's pointless. New thread title
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D.N. Nation posted:How in the world can a syndication or opinion page editors look at this and not think this is INCREDIBLY racist? What value does this POS bring to anything? Bok's point (no one cared about the SOTU) isn't right, the metaphor (it's cribbed off of a pic of Babe Ruth's retirement) is strange and non-seasonal/-topical, it's ugly, it's racist, it's pointless. You forgot to note that Bok's reading of the SOTU was so far removed from its actual text as to be nonsensical but yeah the raw awfulness of the caricature is the real star of the show here
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Well well well ! Looks like it's time for some  I've had computer troubles in December, and was therefore unable to post cartoons from issues 1222-1224. I don't really want to bore y'all with a wall of indecipherable French cartoons so I'll be focusing on the latest issue, 1225 (with a couple more cartoons from 1224). But at least, you'll get the covers.  Issue 1222 - "Christmas Magic" In France, Yule Logs are often decorated with tiny plastic lumberjacks.  Issue 1223 - "Fellow Frenchwomen, Frenchmen, Binationals..." "Françaises, Français" is the traditional hook into a speech by the President. Since a recent constitutional amendment proposal supported by Hollande would enshrine in the Constitution the ability to revoke the citizenship of terrorists for binational citizens, there has been an outrcry from the left wing. Concerns about equality of treatment, that sort of thing.  Anniversary issue 1224 - "One year later, the murderer is still at large"  Issue 1225 - "The inventor of licorice wheels has departed" Heh. Charlie Hebdo loves morbid humor. In my opinion, it's at least more interesting than bland obit cartoons. Which brings us to the cartoon that had everyone in a tizzy this week.  "What would little Aylan have become if he had grown up?" "An rear end-grabber in Germany" This cartoon made me laugh, but it is a bad cartoon IMO. In the purest Charlie Hebdo tradition, it is an outré, an explicitely absurd cartoon. It makes fun of tragedy - not in a jeering way, but in a "let's laugh at this" way. Examples of this sort of cartoons are plenty, and I'll post a few below. Anyway, as I understand it, the message is not "it's funny because it's true" here, it's absurd humor, or maybe it could be a "this is what They think" cartoon. The problem with Riss is that there is a lot of subtext in his cartoons, a lot of things that you're supposed to know (about him, and about CH) in order to get his point. Kind of like Kelly. But the cartoon fails here, according to me, because it's extremely easy to take at face value. And it could very well be used unironically by fascists. So that's why I dislike it: I don't want to be laughing at it along with fascists. Consider this one, also by Riss, in the previous issue:  "Miracle in Lourdes" "Charlie Hebdo walks again, on its own!" In French catholic lore, Lourdes is a town where miracles occur, and where sick people go to heal miraculously. Five million people visit it each year. Death is a joke. Atheist magazine Charlie Hebdo got shot up last year, a visit to Lourdes made it all better. This one was back in 2014 and is an especially egregious example of this absurdist style:  "Boko Haram sex slaves are angry" "Hands off our welfare!" Back in 2014, there was a debate to make people who earned a lot of money uneligible for the family allowance. Of course the cartoon is absurd: why the hell would destitute Nigerian kidnapped women care about a policy that would only have an impact over high-revenue families in France? Because right-wingers in France like to paint black immigrants as coming to France for the benefits. This one was utterly hilarious and one of the few times where I legit laughed out loud for a long time at a Charlie Hebdo cartoon. So all in all my verdict is that it's a funny but bad cartoon. Let's continue with this week's issue.  "Koln: 1st International rear end-Grabbing Festival" "A kolossal success" "Not one moment of boredom" Rough chuckles. A joke about sexual assault and rape? Yes, in the same style as the previous one. And yet the absurdity is more obvious.  "Famine in Syria" "Unbearable images" Death and suffering are a joke. They're eating their "Je suis Charlie" signs.  "At last, a humane Dakar Rally" "Do we leave you anywhere?" The Dakar Rally is a rally around South America (used to be Africa) that often claims lives among the spectators or the indigenous population.  "Ever since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, we don't draw the same stuff" "We're into self-portraits now"  "In case of a terrorist attack, break the glass" Last week's cover was about how God was a murderer, and obviously they caught some flak for it. So they doubled down, these are second-page cartoons  Thumbed for size "What if God didn't ex..." "Shut the gently caress up"  "Mine's the biggest one" Dick joke (From last week:)  "Charlie Hebdo assfucks every religion!" "Rather dead than a human being!" They also republished a couple covers from back in the day - 1995 and 2002  "God is a crazed far-right mass murderer - and one-eyed!" "God: Nobel War Prize" Celeb deaths  "One commemoration too many"  "Never again" A Holocaust joke? Oh my.  "Showbiz: who will be next?" A bunch of famous people died lately, not only David Bowie, David Margulies and Lemmy, but also French actor Michel Galabru and singer/songwriter Michel Delpech. Death is a joke. Flowers For Algeria fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Matt Bors did a cartoon on David Bowie (or rather, people's reactions to his death)
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Kurtofan posted:Lol I thought he was going to say something super racist at first Me too. For example: 
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Ague Proof posted:Me too. For example: Someone send this to Kirschen with a "good comic!" line. I'm curious to see if he notices the edit.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:
Flowers For Algeria posted:"Showbiz: who will be next?" Also composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
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Mister Beeg posted:Matt Bors did a cartoon on David Bowie (or rather, people's reactions to his death) I'm pretty sure this very thread went through these exact phases. Please let the side shave die out this year.
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Cat Mattress posted:Wrong picture. Cat Mattress posted:Also composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Which brings us to the cartoon that had everyone in a tizzy this week. Well thanks, Flowers! That explains a whole bunch. I still dislike Charlie Hebdo, but now I dislike them with context. All in all, a positive event.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:
Probably a stupid question, but is it common to use the eye of providence to indicate God? I know it's literally a symbol of God/the Trinity, but I've never seen it really used that way in modern iconography.
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Mister Beeg posted:This latest Bagely is great Mad Bern will soon escape the 99% Boys and team up with Hillarosa to bring them down.
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Sandpuppy posted:Mad Bern will soon escape the 99% Boys and team up with Hillarosa to bring them down. 
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Immortan Trump has a certain ring to it.
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OAquinas posted:Immortan Trump has a certain ring to it. It does, doesn't it? 
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OAquinas posted:Immortan Trump has a certain ring to it. "My friends, do not allow yourself to become dependent on immigrants! They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!"
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Mister Beeg posted:Matt Bors did a cartoon on David Bowie (or rather, people's reactions to his death) I feel like Bors doesn't actually like political cartooning. But even when he makes his generic "I can't be bothered to care anymore" cartoons, he still does the work and makes them funny.
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Mister Beeg posted:Matt Bors did a cartoon on David Bowie (or rather, people's reactions to his death) I'm a little confused by her reaction in panel 5 "Aw man, someone is attacking me, that's bad  ""Oh no now someone is defending me, that's even worse  "
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loquacius posted:I'm a little confused by her reaction in panel 5 The idea is that it's devolved from simple sharing of grief into a huge argument.
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Ruben Bolling presents: comics that are vaguely political but still better than 99% of the poo poo that ends up in this thread. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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In the Patreon post for that Bors, he linked to this strip on Boomer rock stars that he had done for The Nib a few years ago. Pretty good. Fair warning, it's McCullogh, though, so.vyelkin posted:Ruben Bolling presents: comics that are vaguely political but still better than 99% of the poo poo that ends up in this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ht-ZyJOV2k
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Garfield hates Mondays. Marmaduke is large. Planned Parenthood is murdering babies and harvesting their organs. Cathy likes chocolate.
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The Librarians did this exact joke only in reverse, with the reveal that we used to be dinosaur people until someone tried to kill dinosaur hitler 
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Selachian posted:"My friends, do not allow yourself to become dependent on immigrants! They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence!" A positive spin you have there on recent events in Koln.
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Takoluka posted:Percival Dunwoody is my favorite comic ever. It's an old joke, but mildly annoyed Hitler makes it work.
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D.N. Nation posted:Garfield hates Mondays. Marmaduke is large. Planned Parenthood is murdering babies and harvesting their organs. Cathy likes chocolate. What newspaper is still running "Cathy"? The strip ended back in 2010. (I know, I know, it's a joke, but still...)
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