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Mindopali posted:As an european who sees such a thread for the first time, I have no clue how much of it is caricature or not, but man is it fascinating. As a fellow European, there's always more, and it's always worse.
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Interesting to see Lectrr show up in one of these. He draws for De Standaard over here, which is where I mainly know him from. He's not bad, but he's definitely the type to always be bitching and complaining about one thing or another. That said, that's basically your job description as a political cartoonist
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idonotlikepeas posted:
Why is he drawing John McCain morphing into Karl Malden? 
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Likewise as an American I love the foreign poli-cartoon strips and I just see the recurring characters as wacky imps instead of the potential life-wrecking morons they really could be to people with context. Cartoon Rishi Sunak and his friends are such gremlins.MechaCrash posted:What does Rall think will happen if it's ruled that Trump can't run for president on account of all the treason? Biden will just run unopposed? Does he really think that there's nobody the Republicans can grab to throw up on stage? To Rall and Trump supporters the others are such wimps they will lose by default to incumbent advantage so consequences are unfair. It shows that they don't think it out any further than that since there would also be a huge swell of anger that'd go to whoever the GOP put up as Trump's replacement if he actually got booted from the general election.
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Real Rishi Sunak and his friends are gremlins too, so it figures.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Michelle Obama is not currently a politician, and has not once shown any interest in running for office, and yet the bullshit right-wing rumors that she'll try to become president ANY DAY NOW have been around for years and just will not die despite how obviously not based in reality they are. I think now that Hillary Clinton has been thoroughly defeated, right-wingers are trying to find another arch-nemesis quasi-supernatural Evil Woman that they can all rally around. Nancy Pelosi isn't powerful enough to be truly hated at the level they want, so they're aiming at Michelle Obama because she carries along plausibly-deniable sexism, racism, and transphobia (even though she's not trans, these loving idiots) all at once. The fact that she's not a politician is the only thing keeping it at the "she'll enter the race Any Day Now" level. The moment she shows any interest in any sort of public office, an entire industry will start churning out books accusing her of being the Antichrist.
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Pelosi has one foot in the grave, and isn’t super popular. AOC would be a perfect replacement as their new boogiemonster, but she has no presidential aspirations and the party brass would never allow it anyways. Newsom flat-out said he is not running, and you’re gonna look stupid if you keep claiming Hilary will jump in at the last minute, so Michelle is the closest they have even though it makes no real sense outside Michelle having high popularity polling…which is because she is isn’t a politician.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Caught in the middle by Luo Jie Classic US, quicksanding both legs into the world's slowest nut shot.
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Pants Donkey posted:Pelosi has one foot in the grave, and isn’t super popular. AOC would be a perfect replacement as their new boogiemonster, but she has no presidential aspirations and the party brass would never allow it anyways. The most hilarious part is that Kamala Harris is right there, she's also a black woman, she also has clear presidential ambitions, and the whole "Vice President schemes to supplant the President" is like the most basic political thriller trope. Insisting instead that clearly-uninterested-in-politics Michelle Obama is going to jump in the race is some deep, deep hatred and conspriacy thinking about Barrack Obama and how he secretly controls everything.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Michelle Obama is not currently a politician, and has not once shown any interest in running for office, and yet the bullshit right-wing rumors that she'll try to become president ANY DAY NOW have been around for years and just will not die despite how obviously not based in reality they are. That's because Barack already had his two terms, so it's harder to use him as a bogeyman. Hillary is still fairly effective for them, but, the only thing scarier than a woman president would be a black woman president.
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the_steve posted:That's because Barack already had his two terms, so it's harder to use him as a bogeyman. Also the first trans president 
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Goblin Sunak, while distasteful, is a marked improvement over fecal golem BoJo and increasingly rotted corpse Theresa May.
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Blind Duke posted:Goblin Sunak, while distasteful, is a marked improvement over fecal golem BoJo and increasingly rotted corpse Theresa May. Also less than cabbage
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100YrsofAttitude posted:
low key if the war kills all the humans its probably better for the earth
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:The fact that she's not a politician is the only thing keeping it at the "she'll enter the race Any Day Now" level. The moment she shows any interest in any sort of public office, an entire industry will start churning out books accusing her of being the Antichrist. They already are. The same shitbag who wrote that "Dreams of my Real Father" book about Obama wrote one about her recently. Alex Jones mentions it from time to time when he's whining about not being able to set up an interview with the guy.
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Which one of these is the grandma?  yes I know, the smartie ones took the stairs You could write a thesis about this. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Grandma's a terrorist, kid. She'll see you in a few years. Kellies Nomination: Most Willfully Dense Kellies Nomination: Worst Gaslighter Cartoon Kellies Nomination: Most Easily Reinterpreted (Maybe not exactly the sense I mean, but close - this looks loving rad and there's no indication in the cartoon as to why we should not want this.)
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I'm way ahead of you, idonotlikepeas 
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Guess you just have good taste!
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Actually I have a terrible taste, which means you lose!
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Does this bar just serve chilled 750 ml bottles of Tanqueray?
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Nenonen posted:Actually I have a terrible taste, which means you lose!  I mean, I do read dozens of political cartoons every day, so you probably have a point here.
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Just loving pathetic. "All we did was walk around and take pictures!" Jan 6 is amazing because they scrambled to get a talking point on it and never found it. There's like 5 major talking points and they all contradict each other and the same people will cycle through them. I know that to themselves and their base, that's more than enough to be convincing, and their minds won't change either way, but god it's just so loving funny seeing them flop around like this, just completely failed messaging at every step. This one might be the most pathetic though. "Us poor ol grandmas just sightseeing!"
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Vib Rib posted:Just loving pathetic. "All we did was walk around and take pictures!" Yeah, right wing radio hosts will start a 15-minute segment with the "poor grandmas taking pictures are being tortured by the police (who are bad now)" schtick, gradually move towards "the cops let them in / they were all feds", and end the segment with "these heroes were completely justified and we're gonna do it again if Biden steals this election too, so watch your backs". Like, their supposed actual beliefs change as the narrative progresses and they get more and more riled up, it's kind of remarkable to view as an outsider.
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Nenonen posted:Which one of these is the grandma? Lol. If I remember correctly, one of the first people charged for January 6th was a grandma and she received such a low sentence that it was already done by the time an article could come out about it.
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idonotlikepeas posted:(Maybe not exactly the sense I mean, but close - this looks loving rad and there's no indication in the cartoon as to why we should not want this.) For real, what's the downside here? This is the Jetsons level poo poo we dreamt of as kids.
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:I'm pretty sure he's not defending the Uvalde police (nobody is) but it looks to me like they were ready to go in but were restrained. Someone please explain how I'm reading this wrong. Can we photoshop out the gun and replace it with a smart phone, so it's more accurate to reality?
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L. Ron DeSantis posted:I'm pretty sure he's not defending the Uvalde police (nobody is) but it looks to me like they were ready to go in but were restrained. Someone please explain how I'm reading this wrong. Usually one ties their own shoelaces, so the person restraining the cop here is, in fact, the cop. (Also, "to trip over one's own shoelaces" generally means "to fall down due to one's own clumsiness".)
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Grandma, why did people who walked across an arbitrary line get arrested and are being denied their civil rights by every President in the last century?
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Kellies nomination: Laziest joke, Laziest art (non-Gorrell) The gently caress is this? This is not a political cartoon  Kellies nomination: Laziest And this can just gently caress off Microplastics fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Microplastics posted:The gently caress is this? This is not a political cartoon It is a political cartoon by definition. One doesn't have to have a punchline or a joke, nor even an explicit message. A drawing of a crying eagle watching the WTC fall is also a political cartoon.
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Ok fair point, I'll give you that. But even in that particular subgenre of political cartoon it lazy. It's just a guy reading a headline!
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80-90% of political cartoons are just lazy, even when they're done by people with actual artistic skill, like Bennett. A lot of these people are just pumping out a new cartoon every week or however often, and I also would definitely struggle to come up with something interesting to say every single time. There are only a few cartoonists who are consistently good, like Ruben Bolling, but much of his stuff isn't strictly political, which I think is part of the reason.
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Microplastics posted:Ok fair point, I'll give you that. I think, and this is my interpretation, that Uncle Sam is reading the headline, gripping the paper in fury (note the angry wrinkles around the hands) and the face is shrouded with black scribbles of anger. It would come across better if their style wasn't entirely black scribbles to begin with
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Phlegmish posted:80-90% of political cartoons are just lazy, even when they're done by people with actual artistic skill, like Bennett. Collins is the same. A good 1/3 to 1/2 of his output is just commentary on some slice of life or cultural thing rather than anything political. After he quit, I remember Tim Kreider talking about how bad trying to make meaningful cartoons was for his mental health as it meant deliberately and frequently tapping into anger or despair. If you are doing that regularly to meet a recurring deadline, it's going to impact you.
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