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May 31, 2012

by exmarx

Technowolf posted:

If anyone wants see more of Marshall Ramsey I live in Jackson and could post him and provide some background info since most of his stuff if Mississippi related.

For instance, the context for this is that MS's senate republican this year got REALLY nasty with Chris McDaniels (Tea Party) fighting Thad Cochrane (incumbent) tooth and nail. There was a scandal where a local Tea Party blogger snuck into the long-term care facility where Sen. Cochrane's wife was living (she died late last month) and took pictures of her while she was bed-ridden, and later McDaniels accused Cochrane of playing the Race Card because blacks voted for Cochrane in the run-off.
Do it, I'd love to see more local southern cartoons, especially from the worst state a place as southern as Mississippi. (Mississippi isn't going to be last to get Gay Marriage, so it's no longer the Worst State.:v:)

majormonotone posted:

It's more that the price of oil was dropping and OPEC decided to let it drop to attempt to drive Canada/the US/etc. out of the market. It's seriously hurting some of the poorer OPEC nations, including Iran.
There's also the fact that falling oil prices are really hurting Russia/the Russian Ruble (and also Putin specifically), so the US is currently just fine with letting oil prices tank since it means cheaper gas in the US and Russia is feeling the squeeze.

Xander77 posted:


The ruble - oil.
Like here. Also thanks for putting short descriptions under the cartoons, it makes them much more interesting/readable. Now how the hell did you post in the 2014 thread after it was closed?

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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Spiffster posted:

Has anyone stepped up to the plate to post Prickly City regularly? I'd be willing to post that in a weekly burst. Figured I could post a weeks worth on Saturday so we have something to discuss

I post it when it's worth posting. Usually, like the last couple weeks, I find it too dull to bother.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
Has this thing of Obama being the obstructionist been going on for a while and I missed it?

majormonotone
Jan 25, 2013

After checking my local papers was a bust, I decided to go a little further out and check the Albany Times-Union. Incredibly, they appear to have a staff cartoonist by the name of Jeff Boyer. Their website is terrible, but here's a bunch of recent toons:

1

2

He likes to draw Putin as a weird little goblin man. I'm not complaining.

3

A more local-ish cartoon. New York has a fair bit of shale oil in the economically depressed Southern Tier region, mostly around the city of Binghamton. A lot of companies were obviously looking to begin hydrofracking there; while there's a belief that this could help boost the economy of one of New York's poorest regions, most New Yorkers believe that the environmental costs are too great. A week or two ago, Governor Cuomo officially banned fracking in the state of New York.

At the same time, there was a ballot measure this year to allow the building of casinos in a few areas of the Catskills; this passed. The government has "awarded" the casino to Sullivan County, a somewhat empty area that's mostly rural areas and second homes of New York bankers. The casino was touted as a way to generate income in the region, but why would anyone go to some random casino in Sullivan County when they could go to, say, Atlantic City or Mohegan Sun in Connecticut is beyond me.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

majormonotone posted:

After checking my local papers was a bust, I decided to go a little further out and check the Albany Times-Union. Incredibly, they appear to have a staff cartoonist by the name of Jeff Boyer. Their website is terrible, but here's a bunch of recent toons:

This guys art is pretty interesting. Some of the local stuff that's been posted seems pretty amateurish, but this is good.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!

Rygar201
Jan 26, 2011
I AM A TERRIBLE PIECE OF SHIT.

Please Condescend to me like this again.

Oh yeah condescend to me ALL DAY condescend daddy.



I move that Ramirez being given the Lifetime Achievement in Loathsome Cartooning award. He's like the Art Spigelman of vile cartoonists, he prevents all the lesser known skidmarks from getting their due recognition.

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

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

Guardian:

"First Dog on the Moon on Pope Francis – Pope Francis has urged people of all religions and cultures to unite to fight modern slavery and human trafficking, saying in his first mass of 2015 that everyone has a God-given right to be free"

Yesterday's Telegraph:


Telegraph:

Nigel Farage says he will do dry January for his 'unpredictable' New Year's resolution

Times:

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*


Dammit, I was going to post this.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I like this one because I enjoy the image of macho-man Putin getting owned by nerdy accountants.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

It's like a British Rall!

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

Stultus Maximus posted:

It's like a British Rall!

I thought FDotM was Australian?

E: Yeop. The Guardian has recently expanded its questionable services to Australia so FDotM sometimes leaks onto the Guardian front page.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
I love the quotes in this article because of how carefully and diplomatically they have to say that maybe their party leadership shouldn't hang out with the KKK.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Gilganixon posted:

I thought FDotM was Australian?

Beats me, I never heard of him/her/it, but it was posted under the :britain: heading so

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"

Stultus Maximus posted:

Beats me, I never heard of him/her/it, but it was posted under the :britain: heading so

Yeah, they do a cartoon for the Guardian's Aussie website, and occasionally sub in for the Brit cartoonists.

Gin and Juche
Apr 3, 2008

The Highest Judge of Paradise
Shiki Eiki
YAMAXANADU

Samurai Sanders posted:

I love the quotes in this article because of how carefully and diplomatically they have to say that maybe their party leadership shouldn't hang out with the KKK.

It's almost as though if your election is dependent on the influence of a hate group that you might not be running on the correct ideas.

LaughMyselfTo
Nov 15, 2012

by XyloJW

Rygar201 posted:

I move that Ramirez being given the Lifetime Achievement in Loathsome Cartooning award. He's like the Art Spigelman of vile cartoonists, he prevents all the lesser known skidmarks from getting their due recognition.

:siren: Ted Rall spotted :siren:

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

Cloud Potato posted:

Yeah, they do a cartoon for the Guardian's Aussie website, and occasionally sub in for the Brit cartoonists.
I've been quite disappointed by First Dog - I really liked that one they did about how the price of a functional benefits safety net was that some people will take the piss but everything else is kind of bland. Having said that, just wait until Paul "Archduke Franz Ferdibland" Thomas is back from his christmas break, then you'll see some loving blandness. :kheldragar:

Jrbg
May 20, 2014

SomeMathGuy posted:

Loving the Angela Merkel piggy bank. Any chance on a translation?

I don't think anyone gave you a translation. Basically, it's "I guess we can allow ourselves a small glass to relax this new year" and then Greece turns up and makes things sad.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

I remember there being one awful cartoon which I think was from the UK. Guardianistas?

It's memorable if only for incredible lack of an ability to use the fill tool.

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

Rorus Raz posted:

I remember there being one awful cartoon which I think was from the UK. Guardianistas?

It's memorable if only for incredible lack of an ability to use the fill tool.
This?

I'd never heard of it, apparently it's from the Commentator (which I'd also never heard of) and the "joke" is the same every strip: the Guardian staff are a pack of liberals. The Commentator itself looks like a loving riot, their about page points out that:

Some dickheads posted:

The West has a huge and dramatic fight on its hands. Not just from the outside, but from the inside too. Our economics are in the tank. Budgets are bloated, taxes are too high, existential threats to our interests at home and abroad have rarely ever been more concerning. We seek to shed light on these core 'civilisational' issues.

We argue that now is not the time for big government; it's not the time to bow before tyrants, dictators or terrorists; and it's not the time to abandon our only true ally in the Middle East: Israel.

Let's face it -- it never should have become and never should be the time for any of those things. But lately, the West has become more than a little self-loathing in its worldview, and we exist to offer a viable alternative.
So it's an online newspaper for the british far right, where you can get all the latest news on what those shifty brown folk muslim extremists are up to. Surprisingly this wasn't a stellar business model and they're "basically running the site off our own dimes at the moment". :v:

voltroon
Apr 29, 2009

majormonotone posted:

After checking my local papers was a bust, I decided to go a little further out and check the Albany Times-Union. Incredibly, they appear to have a staff cartoonist by the name of Jeff Boyer. Their website is terrible, but here's a bunch of recent toons:

1

I really dig this cartoon and I'm feeling this guy's style.

Here's Powell's pre- and post-New Year's cartoons:

1

2

featuring NC governor Pat McCrory as a parrot. McCrory was a long-time moderate mayor of Charlotte, a fairly purple-to-blue city, before being elected governor. A fair number of Democrats and Independents voted for him because of his moderate record and a bad attitude towards outgoing gov Bev Perdue's administration. He's received a lot of criticism since then for veering hard to the right and becoming an increasingly Tea Party-ish Republican who "parrots" the national bigwigs (get the joke???).

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story

I was hoping this was the "brokencodom" version of the toon but ah well.

OldTennisCourt
Sep 11, 2011

by VideoGames

Acid Haze posted:

Yeah you're right. I always get those two mixed up in my head somehow. The lazy one and the hateful one.



Didn't an old girlfriend of Branco's write a blog post or something about him right after this comic? I could have sworn something like that happened and it was posted in the last thread.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Holy poo poo, this popped up on Town Hall for yesterday.

Nyarai
Jul 19, 2012

Jenn here.
Who can forget the old children's rhyme which starts, "Twelve days hath November, April, June, and December"?

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

Rorus Raz posted:

Holy poo poo, this popped up on Town Hall for yesterday.

He saw people in the gay abortions thread wondering how he could get any lazier then.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Bob Gorrell starts the year out with a strong defense of his title.

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

'Sup, fellow Capital Region-er. The casino thing is supremely dumb for a lot of reasons beyond the whole "hey remember the Borsch Belt, let's do that again" decision by the casino licensure board.

First, Casinos aren't doing that well anyway - AC has seen some casinos closing and a lot of people are rightfully wondering why the hell anyone would build more. Second, the ballot initiative to legalize casino gaming was a bit of nice politicing by Cuomo - it approved up to 5 casinos to be built in the state, but specifically noted none would be built anywhere near NYC/Long Island. One was targeted at Saratoga Springs, which already has slots at the racetrack - there was a public referendum to actually bar converting the raceway slots into a full-blown casino which passed, turns out people don't really like casinos in their back yard. The ballot prop won due to this, the city and Long Island were like 75-80% in favor and the rest of the state was more divided.

The other problem is that there's already tribal Casinos (Turning Stone, near Syracuse for instance) that cover quite a bit of the state. Adding more, especially in places that are already close to other gaming destinations, seems like a really dumb idea. I seriously doubt that there will be any sort of property tax breaks as a result of increased revenue from casinos, as well.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Shugojin posted:

Bob Gorrell starts the year out with a strong defense of his title.

I'm waiting for the day someone goes to the site to get the new comic, only for the site to be down (if only temporarily), so that we can discover the laziness singularity.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Rorus Raz posted:

Holy poo poo, this popped up on Town Hall for yesterday.


how is this loving possible

Arist
Feb 13, 2012

who, me?


Rorus Raz posted:

Holy poo poo, this popped up on Town Hall for yesterday.


What the gently caress, Gorrell

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
I wonder how often this happens. "Oh I uh. I turned in the wrong strip, here's the right one." *no change but year on calendar*

Editor: "what the christ, this represents no effort at all. Oh wait I am an editor, I run editorial cartoons. I interact with Bill Day." :unsmigghh:

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

My local paper printed one of the blank Gorells. I seriously sent a letter to the editor saying I can provide the same quality of cartoon for half the price.

Poopy Palpy
Jun 10, 2000

Im da fwiggin Poopy Palpy XD

Rorus Raz posted:

My local paper printed one of the blank Gorells. I seriously sent a letter to the editor saying I can provide the same quality of cartoon for half the price.

You are incapable of producing a Gorell quality cartoon.

Hexigrammus
May 22, 2006

Cheech Wizard stories are clean, wholesome, reflective truths that go great with the marijuana munchies and a blow job.

Technowolf posted:


For instance, the context for this is that MS's senate republican this year got REALLY nasty with Chris McDaniels (Tea Party) fighting Thad Cochrane (incumbent) tooth and nail. There was a scandal where a local Tea Party blogger snuck into the long-term care facility where Sen. Cochrane's wife was living (she died late last month) and took pictures of her while she was bed-ridden, and later McDaniels accused Cochrane of playing the Race Card because blacks voted for Cochrane in the run-off.

Wait - what? I was trying to google the details, but the search results are swamped by the fraudulent voter allegations. We have two guys (both Republican) campaigning for the Republican nomination, and someone in one camp thought that pictures of the opponent's dying wife would be useful in discrediting the opponent?

Seriously? Is this what happened?

Hexigrammus
May 22, 2006

Cheech Wizard stories are clean, wholesome, reflective truths that go great with the marijuana munchies and a blow job.

majormonotone posted:

It's more that the price of oil was dropping and OPEC decided to let it drop to attempt to drive Canada/the US/etc. out of the market. It's seriously hurting some of the poorer OPEC nations, including Iran.

Yeah, the T. rex should be labelled "Alberta" or "Harper". Our prime minister has spent a lifetime turning Canada into a petro-state with Alberta and its tar sands the dominant province. A Canadian cartoon.

Acropolis
Feb 21, 2014

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug
62 and already needs a cane, eh? Welcome back to the early 20th century, I guess?

edit: I guess I agree with the sentiment though, in terms of TV news in general. In some number of years, it won't influence society very much at all. Woo!

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jan 2, 2015

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WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Wait, America's average life expectancy is under 80?

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