Political Cartoons 2023: We're Fine!

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Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

It's a little detail but I love the smiling, happy, diverse, all-ages "dedicated Tucker Carlson viewer" demographic being portrayed here. No mirror sunglasses, lovely goatee, or rage-filled scowl in sight.

They're all happy to no longer be on a boat with Tucker Carlson.

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# ? May 28, 2024 16:45

Adenoid Dan: Mar 8, 2012; The Hobo Serenader; Lipstick Apathy

idonotlikepeas posted:

David Horsey

Yeah man why doesn't he do that in his home so nobody has to see him

# ? Apr 29, 2023 06:01

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Ed Gamble

Kellies nomination: gaslighter special

# ? Apr 29, 2023 06:17

The Artificial Kid: Feb 22, 2002; Plibble

Vib Rib posted:

It does hit me sometimes how hosed up our economic system is that people can talk about all work being automated and it's an ultimate nightmare scenario instead of a utopia.

How do you feel about the fact that our politicians are still talking about "jobs" as a vital commodity and defining aspect of human life, as opposed to "food, pleasant shelter, healthcare, entertainment and security"?

The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Apr 29, 2023

# ? Apr 29, 2023 07:41

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
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The Artificial Kid posted:

How do you feel about the fact that our politicians are still talking about "jobs" as a vial commodity and defining aspect of human life, as opposed to "food, pleasant shelter, healthcare, entertainment and security"?

Well that's just common sense, after all your value as a human being is based on how much money you can generate for corporations. Once you stop or even slow down, you might as well die.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 07:43

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

idonotlikepeas posted:

David Horsey

And if the legislature did say that he couldn't but refused to provide safe injection facilities, what then?

# ? Apr 29, 2023 10:26

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

That's just primo Horsey there. Teenage tits and drug derelicts, yeehaw! :horse:

e: even the background bikini baby posing suggestively, he really put so much love in this one

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Apr 29, 2023

# ? Apr 29, 2023 11:10

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

And not a single person smoking a cigarette or barbecuing fish or vaping a 500W powerberry fog machine or eating durian, or many other things that are both more antisocial and more common to see in public (and in two of those cases literally administering drugs in public so that everyone else gets a lungful).

# ? Apr 29, 2023 11:25

World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

idonotlikepeas posted:

Clay Bennett

im sure it's just oversight that led to only having one yard sign for only one of the rapist candidates and in no way would you say to vote for yours

gently caress you bennett

Edit: Kellies Nomination: Willful Hypocrisy

World Famous W fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Nov 28, 2023

# ? Apr 29, 2023 13:01

the_steve: Nov 9, 2005; We're always hiring!

idonotlikepeas posted:

Clay Bennett

To be fair, there should be two of these signs.

Kellies Nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted

idonotlikepeas posted:

Pedro X. Molina

Kellies Nomination: Best Overall
I think it's a good visual metaphor

idonotlikepeas posted:

Ed Gamble

Kellies Nomination: Worst Use of Speech Bubbles

# ? Apr 29, 2023 15:28

Saint Sputnik: Apr 1, 2007; Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

the_steve posted:

Kellies Nomination: Best Overall
I think it's a good visual metaphor

Why would GenZ be trying to insert the part that goes into the phone into the power outlet? It would make more sense for the outlet to be a rotary phone

# ? Apr 29, 2023 17:24

Cloud Potato: Jan 9, 2011; "I'm... happy!"

Not the ~~Guardian~~:

Richard Sharp resigns as BBC chair after failing to declare link to Boris Johnson loan
The Guardian pulls cartoon of outgoing BBC boss Richard Sharp after antisemitism backlash

Rowson's Website posted:

On Saturday 29th April 2023 The Guardian published a cartoon of mine about Richard Sharp�s resignation as Chairman of the BBC, the top news item the previous day. The main focus of the cartoon was Boris Johnson sitting naked on top of a dungheap holding bags full of dollars, with various wheeliebins around its base, labelled �Patrons�, �Friends�, �Families� and so on. Johnson was saying to Sharp, as the latter was leaving the dilapidated and clearly fire damaged room they were in, �Cheer up, matey! I put you down for a peerage in my Resignation Honours List!�

I think the purpose of the cartoon was fairly obvious - Johnson�s blithe toxicity by association, and how Sharp was the latest bit of blowback from the former Prime Minister�s
casual if all consuming sleaziness and selfishness. None of that, however, seems to have fuelled the furious response to the cartoon. That was all down to how I depicted Richard Sharp.

In the internal narrative of the cartoon, I�d wanted Sharp to play the stooge, the fall guy Johnson had brought low. I also wanted to hint at other parts of the story, and how the networks of croneyism cut every which way among our rulers. It is common knowledge, for instance, that Rishi Sunak used to work for Sharp at Goldman Sachs, the multinational bank infamously described by Matt Taimmi in Rolling Stone in 2008 as �a vampire squid wrapped round the face of humanity�. To signify this not insignificant connection between Sharp and the current Prime Minister, I had him holding a cardboard box, the standard accessory of the just sacked, with the Goldman Sachs logo on it, albeit partially covered by his CV, also held in one of the hands holding the box. The logo�s been crossed out and �BBC� scribbled beneath it, also now crossed out. In the box are Sunak and the aforementioned vampire squid, in a rather cutesy cartoon form, and with the typical yellow polyped skin that stretches between the tentacles of vampire squid.

And this is where things started going wrong. The portrayal of Sharp takes up 3% of the overall image. I was trying to draw him looking silently furious, by implication with Johnson, in the standard caricatural way common to all political cartoons of exaggerating various of his features (most prominently, I thought, his large forehead and rather hooded, baggy eyes). I thought, at the time, it was a fairly mild caricature compared with how I�d draw Johnson. But I�d also never drawn Sharp before, so maybe overworked it to satisfy myself I�d �caught him�; in David Low�s famous phrase, made him look more like him than he does.

Oh, and then I added, just for a laugh as a tiny detail, an empty packet of �Dignity Shreds� at the base of Johnson�s dunghill, with a pig behind an attendant fur cup snarfing a clump of them up.

I like to produce complex cartoons, crammed with incidental detail, partly it allows layers of nuance to be added to the overall umage, partly because it�s the English Cartooning Great Tradition, from Hogarth and Gillray, via Giles and Pont. Also, I know, a lot of the readers enjoy it. But sometimes, like in this case, in the mad rush to cram as much in as possible in the 5 or so hours available to me to produce the artwork by deadline, things go horribly wrong.

Satirists, even though largely licenced to speak the unspeakable in liberal democracies, are no more immune to loving things up than anyone else, which is what I did here. I know Richard Sharp is Jewish; actually, while we�re collecting networks of croneyism, I was at school with him, though I doubt he remembers me. His Jewishness never crossed my mind as I drew him as it�s wholly irrelevant to the story or his actions, and it played no conscious role in how I twisted his features according to the standard cartooning playbook. Likewise, the cute squid and the little Rishi were no more than that, a cartoon squid and a short Prime Minister, it never occurring to me that some might see them as puppets of Sharp, this being another notorious antisemitic trope. As for the pig and the �Dignity Shreds�, I think I painted them red as like scraps of licorice, again not appreciating they could also be interpreted as blood, repeating yet again antisemitic blood libels that have recurred poisonously for millennia. Finally, fatally, many people assumed the yellow polyps on the squid were gold coins and the truncated Goldman Sachs logo simply read �Gold Sacs�.

For this I apologise, though I�m not going to repeat the current formulation by saying I�m sorry if people were upset, which is always code for �I�ve done nothing wrong, you�re just oversensitive�. This is on me, even if accidentally or, more precisely, thoughtlessly. It�s a personal mantra of mine that satirical cartoons are like journalism, all about Afflicting the Comfortable and Comforting the Afflicted. In other words, I should never attack people less powerful than me (which narrows the field more than you might imagine) and I should only attack people for what they think, not who they are.

So by any definition, most of all my own, the cartoon was a failure and on many levels: I offended the wrong people, Sharp wasn�t the main target of the satire, I rushed at something without allowing enough time to consider things with the depth and care they require, and thereby letting slip in stupid ambiguities that have ended up appearing to be something I never intended. But as I�ve always said, once my work is in the public domain, it no longer belongs to me but to the beholder, in whose eye offence dwells just as surely as beauty.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. To work effectively, cartoons almost more than any other part of journalism require eternal vigilance, against unconscious bias as well as things that should be obvious and in this case, unforgivably, I didnt even think about. There are sensitivities it is our obligation to respect in order to achieve our satirical purposes. Despite the tyranny of the deadline, in future I�ll make sure I�ve drawn what I really mean, and mean what I draw.

Telegraph:

Matt:

Independent:

After Joshua Reyonlds and Bernard Cornwell.

The i paper:

Times:

# ? Apr 29, 2023 17:28

lobsterminator: Oct 16, 2012

the_steve posted:

Kellies Nomination: Best Overall
I think it's a good visual metaphor

Except EU forced GenZ to use USB-C instead of Lightning.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 17:49

Drakyn: Dec 26, 2012

Rowson's Website posted:

For this I apologise, though I�m not going to repeat the current formulation by saying I�m sorry if people were upset, which is always code for �I�ve done nothing wrong, you�re just oversensitive�. This is on me, even if accidentally or, more precisely, thoughtlessly. It�s a personal mantra of mine that satirical cartoons are like journalism, all about Afflicting the Comfortable and Comforting the Afflicted. In other words, I should never attack people less powerful than me (which narrows the field more than you might imagine) and I should only attack people for what they think, not who they are.

So by any definition, most of all my own, the cartoon was a failure and on many levels: I offended the wrong people, Sharp wasn�t the main target of the satire, I rushed at something without allowing enough time to consider things with the depth and care they require, and thereby letting slip in stupid ambiguities that have ended up appearing to be something I never intended. But as I�ve always said, once my work is in the public domain, it no longer belongs to me but to the beholder, in whose eye offence dwells just as surely as beauty.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. To work effectively, cartoons almost more than any other part of journalism require eternal vigilance, against unconscious bias as well as things that should be obvious and in this case, unforgivably, I didnt even think about. There are sensitivities it is our obligation to respect in order to achieve our satirical purposes. Despite the tyranny of the deadline, in future I�ll make sure I�ve drawn what I really mean, and mean what I draw.

What the hell is this guy drinking and how can we get every other so-called 'satirist' on the planet to drink it too? Honestly impressed.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 18:02

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

*immediately goes back to drawing giant red lips on every BAME caricature*

# ? Apr 29, 2023 18:56

L. Ron DeSantis: Nov 10, 2009

the_steve posted:

https://twitter.com/KartoonistKelly/status/1652037701816791043?t=ljkcLNyjIR5PB4RQit_SYw&s=19

Kellies nomination: Best overall

idonotlikepeas posted:

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David Horsey

Kellies nomination: gently caress you

# ? Apr 29, 2023 19:03

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

The Haitian posted:

Kellies nomination: Best overall

It's from 2022.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:02

Grape: Nov 16, 2017; Happily shilling for China!

Horsey's career arc is a terrifying example of boomerism. He really did become a pretty all around balanced cool dude for awhile in like the later 2000's and 2010, but the boomer disease could not be stopped, and his brain is well Swissed.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:17

Larryb: Oct 5, 2010

Edit: Nevermind

Larryb fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 29, 2023

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:21

I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Horsey�s horny for two things, but of the two he�s far hornier for killing the poor.

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:30

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Larryb posted:

I might have scrolled past it but what cartoon is this specifically referring to?

It's exactly two posts above the one you quoted, at the beginning of the post :v:

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:32

Larryb: Oct 5, 2010

So it is, nevermind

Larryb fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Apr 30, 2023

# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:43

HootTheOwl: May 13, 2012; Hootin and shootin

Saint Sputnik posted:

Why would GenZ be trying to insert the part that goes into the phone into the power outlet? It would make more sense for the outlet to be a rotary phone

USB C cables are male/male. Like with my phone I would put that end into an adapter and then into the wall. That way if I remove the adapter I can plug the cable info my computer, or another device. (Phone to phone, for example)

Lol
Both Biden and trump are ungrounded

HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Apr 30, 2023

# ? Apr 30, 2023 00:55

idonotlikepeas: May 29, 2010; This reasoning is possible for forums user idonotlikepeas!

I should have posted the rant with that Horsey cartoon.

David Horsey posted:

Anyone who has spent time in downtown Seattle over the last few years has come across people openly injecting, smoking or otherwise loading up on hard drugs right on the sidewalk. Just about everyone agrees this is not a good thing, but it is hard to find agreement about how to deal with the problem.

Do we need tougher laws that would force street drug users to make a choice between jail time and treatment? Do we eliminate all legal penalties for possession of these killer substances and rely on programs to coax the drug afflicted into rehabilitation programs? Or do we try something in between, a compromise blend of carrots and sticks?

That is exactly the issue the state House of Representatives failed to resolve before this year�s legislative session ended. A compromise plan that would have made possession of hard drugs a gross misdemeanor did not get enough votes to pass. Opposition came from both sides of the issue: hard line Republicans who demanded tougher legal penalties and progressive Democrats who wanted no penalties at all.

Action was necessary because, two years ago, the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the state�s prohibition against possession of a controlled substance, which was then considered a felony. A subsequent stopgap law making drug possession a misdemeanor to be enforced on the third violation is set to expire in July. That means, if state lawmakers do nothing further, drug possession will soon be legal throughout the state.

That would be a win for the no penalties side, except local governments will not stand by and do nothing. Municipal authorities around the state will come up with their own laws, which will invariably range from tough to mild. Before that happens, though, it appears Gov. Jay Inslee will call the Legislature back into session to take another shot at passing a uniform legal standard for the state.

With no consensus on the issue, compromise is the only way to go; an imperfect legislative response to a disturbing social malady that will not be easily healed by any scheme, no matter how tough or humane.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 01:12

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

idonotlikepeas posted:

I should have posted the rant with that Horsey cartoon.

As rants go, it's a quite reasonable one if considered in isolation given that it's mostly blaming the legislature.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:05

Charlz Guybon: Nov 16, 2010

the_steve posted:

Kellies Nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted

Kellies Nomination: Best Overall
I think it's a good visual metaphor

Didn't Gen Z go for the Dems by a 40 plus margin in the midterm? I don't think it makes sense because it implies that Gen Z isn't going to vote for either of them.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:34

MrUnderbridge: Jun 25, 2011

IIRC the margin was something like 77 to 21, D to R.

Has to be indoctrination, and not horrible policies of the right.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:36

The Islamic Shock: Apr 8, 2021

I AM GRANDO posted:

Horsey�s horny for two things, but of the two he�s far hornier for killing the poor.

Horny for killing the poor, especially the homeless, and teenagers...

Dear Lord never let this man find Metamorphosis

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:43

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

His art quality does increase significantly whenever he's in a certain mindset though, so in summary

hooman posted:

Horsey should go back to drawing bomb-rear end titties, becuase that was actually less offensive than this garbage.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:51

idonotlikepeas: May 29, 2010; This reasoning is possible for forums user idonotlikepeas!

Clay Bennett

Jeff Danziger

Lisa Benson

Pedro X. Molina

Ann Telnaes

Lee Judge

Mike Smith

Jimmy Margulies

David M. Hitch

He's going to have to go seriously wormbama if he wants to fit any more faces in here.

Darrin Bell

Randall Enos - The United States of Guns

# ? Apr 30, 2023 02:52

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

idonotlikepeas posted:

David M. Hitch

He's going to have to go seriously wormbama if he wants to fit any more faces in here.

This guy is just getting more and more unhinged.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 03:20

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
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Oh yeah, Hitch? What words can't you say, exactly?
For that matter, what loving cars have been banned? What guns have actually been seized? What 8 year old is having bottom surgery? What loving bugs are you being served??

"Conservatives vs their imaginations" memes are everywhere for a reason, god drat.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 03:27

Apple Pie Hubbub: Feb 14, 2012; Take that, you greedy jerk!

# ? Apr 30, 2023 03:37

Shinji2015: Aug 31, 2007; Keen on the hygiene and on the mission like a super technician.

idonotlikepeas posted:

David M. Hitch

He's going to have to go seriously wormbama if he wants to fit any more faces in here.

"The more faces I fit into a picture means the more people are saying things I agree with"

# ? Apr 30, 2023 03:38

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

2

Kellies Nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted.

Dinosaurs did go extinct, Fishman.

# ? Apr 30, 2023 03:50

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

8

Wait, but why would Mickey be wearing...what?

# ? Apr 30, 2023 04:01

Lemming: Apr 21, 2008

Discendo Vox posted:

Wait, but why would Mickey be wearing...what?

I'm pretty sure trying to understand it is some kind of mental trap that will just make you insane

# ? Apr 30, 2023 04:02

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

5

Kellies nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted

Note that there is no indication the adults are going to harm the child in any way, or that the child isn't trans (no, Mike, the pink doesn't count)

# ? Apr 30, 2023 04:35

Aoi: Sep 12, 2017; Perpetually a Pain.

Technowolf posted:

Kellies nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted

Note that there is no indication the adults are going to harm the child in any way, or that the child isn't trans (no, Mike, the pink doesn't count)

why would a child that age, going on puberty blockers, require top surgery

Perhaps the adult on the left is having it? Good for him.

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CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Murdstone posted:

Kellies Nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted.

Dinosaurs did go extinct, Fishman.

Ummm actually dinosaurs didn't go extinct, they survived as birds

# ? Apr 30, 2023 04:54

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