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idonotlikepeas posted:Adam Zyglis Hmm. The metaphor is maybe a little strained, but I like this cartoon. Decent art. Recognizable Biden engaging in a recognizable activity. No unnecessary labels or text - I think it's reasonable to assume that many readers wouldn't recognize Israel from the shape alone. 7/10
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I'm feeling a lot better, thanks everyone, so nobody has to miss our favorite Rogue CartoonistTM until he croaks from his Stage 4 colon cancer, which if he was diagnosed last spring may not be too much longer. I wonder which cartoonist will win Worst Obituary when it happens.
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China Daily Weakened EU by Shi Yu  Not enough by Cai Meng  Protectionism hinders global economic recovery by Luo Jie  Japan unleashes monster by Cai Meng  Uncle Sam greedy for capitalism by Luo Jie  Le Monde L’homme et l’artiste/The Man and the Artist  "Today we're going to try to answer the question: Should we make a difference between the bastard of a man and the despicable artist?"  by Tjeerd RoyaardsIt's the environmental laws the EU was going to implement but that got scrapped due to the farmer protests. Ukraine : les tergiversations des alliés de l’Ouest/Ukraine: Western allies are procrastinating by Emanuele Del Rosso from Italy   by Sanaga from FranceCyclist till the end "I'm going to work from distance."  by Chappatte from Switzerland (We can agree this isn't the same Chappatte that's sometimes posted right?)"How many divisions in Nato?" Screen:Troops on the ground in Ukraine? Macron on his own France : l’IVG en voie d’être inscrit dans la Constitution/France:Abortion on the way to being enshrined in the Constitution by Elena from Colombia 
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Uncle Sam greedy for capitalism by Luo Jie 100YrsofAttitude posted:
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Japan unleashes monster by Cai Meng I need someone to photoshop Godzilla to an Eva and then change the speech bubble to "3rd impact!".
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Guavanaut posted:War profit is useful Keynesian cyclical spending. A confusing cartoon. I think it's specifically calling it out as useless though - the coins are just dropping out immediately without accomplishing anything.
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Speaking of calling something out as useless, it's time once more for  Look, anyone who has a round door is probably up to something. Just saying.  And here we learn that Mordor also has hobbits that live there, and that the orcs are completely friendly with the local hobbits. Sure, why not?  I think this is the second time now we've come dangerously close to "Hitler wasn't actually all that bad, it's just the Jews made him out to be evil". (There's a figleaf here where you can just say "oh, no, Hitler is terrible, but they're unjustly depicting this random hobbit (probably Frodo) as him".) Also, I guess, orc newscasters just look like slightly weird humans instead of... you know, orcs?  Between the last two strips, I no longer know if these children are supposed to be orcs or hobbits. Maybe that's the entire point of this!?!? (It's not.)  So obviously this is supposed to be about Israeli settlements but it also has that vague smell of the Great Replacement stuff he was doing earlier. (It's possible Tats thinks these are the same thing, come to think of it.)  In isolation, this one actually... isn't bad. It's not like the Israeli army is doing nice things, and I'm at least going to give him credit for depicting an actual atrocity this time instead of just having people engage in totally normal activities and then gesturing at them as if they're horrible. It's only once you look at the virulently antisemitic context that this joins the pile of poo poo that we must, for lack of a better term, describe as his life's work.  So I guess he just speedran the rest of Lord of the Rings so he could get right to the Scouring of the Shire and then spend a million strips just on that? Cool, great. (Although presumably the bad guys will not actually be removed from the Shire in this case, both to mirror the real-life situation he's trying to depict and because he's going to get bored and switch to something else soon.) Pettyfest   
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He snuck a "6 million followers" dogwhistle/joke in this one, so you still know what he's really trying to say. I'm starting to think that the reason he's been leaning so hard into this hamfisted LotR poo poo is so that he can poo poo on Israel and Jews without actually expressing sympathy for Palestinian people (read: brown people). Note how they're depicted as attacking white hobbits - it plays into the whole thing with anti-semitic conspiracy theories claiming that white people are the biggest victims of the Jewish conspiracies.
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I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be orc kids, he's just not very good at making them visually distinct. It's a reference to that infamous picture of Israeli children writing on mortar shells.
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Phlegmish posted:I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be orc kids, he's just not very good at making them visually distinct. It's a reference to that infamous picture of Israeli children writing on mortar shells. There's differences in skin tones, ear shapes and teeth, but they're too subtle. And the cartoonist is an idiot.
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idonotlikepeas posted:Speaking of calling something out as useless, it's time once more for So... is this still supposed to be Heaven or...? Edit: Nenonen posted:There's differences in skin tones, ear shapes and teeth, but they're too subtle. The children are barefoot, so my first thought was Hobbits.
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ZZT the Fifth posted:He snuck a "6 million followers" dogwhistle/joke in this one, so you still know what he's really trying to say. And as the Pettyfest pointed out still thinks that the war in Ukraine is fake, I'm sure.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:China Daily Economic recovery just needs time to grow and until then protectionism is no threat to it?
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ZZT the Fifth posted:I'm starting to think that the reason he's been leaning so hard into this hamfisted LotR poo poo is so that he can poo poo on Israel and Jews without actually expressing sympathy for Palestinian people (read: brown people). It's literally this. Note how his stand-ins for Palestinians are all lily white and blue-eyed.
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Oh yes, the price is literally one body, whose name we politicized to hell but have already forgotten. An accurate comic reflecting the nature of Republican outrage.
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Clerical Terrors posted:Lmao die mad about it, Ed. No, Gamble can only draw two types of people: 75 year olds who hate their families, and what he thought a college student looked like in 1972.
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Randalor posted:So... is this still supposed to be Heaven or...? Hostile V posted:I don't know if I actually care but is this horrible LOTR analogy also still taking place in Heaven. Ishida has already forgotten about the heaven bit
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Phlegmish posted:I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be orc kids, he's just not very good at making them visually distinct. It's a reference to that infamous picture of Israeli children writing on mortar shells. Pretty sure you're right, but I do try to let the comments under the strips be my genuine reaction as I read through (except when I really need to make a particular joke or want to dramatically emphasize something like Jew Voltron). The concept of orcs that didn't look like orcs hadn't been introduced yet, so it really seemed like they were hobbits until we got to later in the week when it turns out orcs are just slightly more ethnic hobbits. Speaking of: ZZT the Fifth posted:I'm starting to think that the reason he's been leaning so hard into this hamfisted LotR poo poo is so that he can poo poo on Israel and Jews without actually expressing sympathy for Palestinian people (read: brown people). Note how they're depicted as attacking white hobbits - it plays into the whole thing with anti-semitic conspiracy theories claiming that white people are the biggest victims of the Jewish conspiracies. Yep. And not only that, but the orcs are represented as POC (albeit the "color" there being red or light pink). So he's transformed the Israel/Palestine conflict into a race war against white people.
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JamesBont posted:I wonder if Ishida even remembers what the metaphors are supposed to be at this point. Doesn't matter, he just wants to blow the "Jews  " foghorn. Anything else is irrelevant to that priority.
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Nenonen posted:And the cartoonist is an idiot. Um actually I think you'll find he's 
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Rall: But Trump Is Evil Ted Rall posted:Biden’s defenders brush off his support for right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s carpet-bombing of Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians. There can only be one reason why. First Dog on the Moon: Centrelink horror stories! Mark has his payments suspended while recovering from brain surgery 
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idonotlikepeas posted:Speaking of calling something out as useless, it's time once more for This one is based on an actual incident from 2021, where a settler used that exact phrase. So I guess that strip is arguably the least bad of the bunch, except for the whole "casting real-life ethnicities as fantasy races" which is deeply  no matter what.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/4/if-i-dont-steal-your-home-someone-else-will-jewish-settler-says
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A.F. Branco This one really illustrates how performative the outrage over Laken Riley's death was. Literally the day before he put up this one was when a bunch of right-wing cartoonists (including Varvel) suddenly really cared about her. Literally the day after they can't be bothered to include her in their anti-immigration bullshit.   Al Goodwyn  John Deering  Michael Ramirez    Mike Luckovich  Tom Stiglich  
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