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Are we going to bother including Matt or are his lazy scribbles so bland and unfunny that it's not worth it?
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I don't know if he really needs to be there, just that I've seen far more of his cartoons than I ever wanted to and he really does make you appreciate Bell and Rowson et al, but we've already got Mac in the OP for that. Back in my second year of uni, my mam got me a calendar of Matt cartoons. She'd never seen any of them, but my boyfriend at the time was also called Matt and she noticed it in a shop and thought it'd be sweet to have something to remind me of him in the holidays when we were apart.  On the first of each month she and I would turn the calendar over and groan in unison. It was always something like a couple of talking heads on a snowy day saying "ha ha I hope global warming hurries up". Or another couple of talking heads saying something like "this news story sure is a thing that happened". It wasn't outright offensive like Mac, but just really dull or nonsensical or demonstrated a real lack of understanding (like with the global warming thing, climate change fucks up the Gulf Stream and makes it snow more in Britain). Like the kind of daft joke you might make as small talk at the bus stop really early in the morning when you're not quite with it. At least, I don't think he's as offensive as Mac. Like these: the "joke" is so bewildering that I don't know if it's homophobic or not.   There was another one he did a while ago about a church being infested with gay bats or something, I didn't get that one either. Maybe he's actually a genius and my mam and I just don't get his jokes or appreciate his art.
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Dec 15, 2012 00:47
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Fluo posted:Daily Mail: For a far-right homophobe, that sure is a homoerotic cartoon.
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Dec 21, 2012 00:39
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It's like Riddell labelling the bear Russia. The elephant's the GOP, it's always the GOP, it's their logo and everything.
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Dec 24, 2012 10:37
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I mistook the fur cup's cheerful smile for a smug raised eyebrow at first and thought it was eating Gove's head.
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Feb 9, 2013 21:46
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A Sloth posted:Martin Rowson from: Spare the fox, hunt the slobs who treat our pavements like a rubbish dump - Tony Parsons Reminds me of the local private school's "Chav hunt" spoof video a few years ago. There was a shitstorm over that but not as big as there should've been. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6944534.stm
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Feb 16, 2013 20:35
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Niric posted:Is that the remnants of Cleggochio in the corner? Looks like one of his white gloves poking up out of what appears to be a bag of poo poo. I think it just might be, Osbourne's trailing off and saying "to save faeces" at the end.
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Feb 25, 2013 21:44
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Trin Tragula posted:And here's George in the background, doing something with them. Offering a sacrifical chicken but getting hit in the face with a snowball? I think that's the Growth Sloth hanging off his arm, he's just flailing around as he's hit with the snowball so it's gone up a bit.
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Mar 3, 2013 13:48
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Payndz posted:"IDS takes living on benefits challenge." Maybe it's a ruse to get Express readers to campaign for him to do it, or to realise just how bad "scroungers" have it. Later on they might find out he hasn't done it and think, "Wait, he hasn't done it? But he said he would!  "Why is there a sign at the Tories' lunch anyway? The sign explaining the news story only works (barely) if there's a newspaper stand or something in the background. Are the other Tories pulling a "har har Duncan-Smith has free school meals" joke on him?
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Apr 4, 2013 00:54
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Fluo posted:Telegraph: I'm not sure on this one, but I think it's saying that Thatcher was more decisive and assertive about international relations than Cameron. (Whether she made the right decisions or not is irrelevant I guess.)
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Apr 15, 2013 03:31
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I love that the gnomes are just standing around, smiling, being a perfectly inoffensive gay couple and just holding hands, and everyone else is looking at them like "oh god gay gnomes moral collapse".
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May 21, 2013 17:42
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Maybe it's Jeremy Hunt. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100153447/the-night-i-saw-jeremy-hunt-hide-behind-a-tree-before-dinner-with-james-murdoch/
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May 23, 2013 23:53
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There's about a hundred similar ones, like Take A Break, Heat and Closer. Full of really dumbed-down news items, celebrity stalking a la Mail Online, scary medical columns about how YOU could have some rare tropical disease, and voyeuristic reports of real-life stories (ie scaremongering). My mum reads DIVA - it says something about the press that the only decent women's magazine a straight woman can find is one aimed at lesbians, because it isn't filled with dangerously wrong medical advice or crazy ways to please men (oddly enough those mags never include the phrase "ask him what he wants").
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Jun 5, 2013 20:03
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: "Hmm, I'm not sure my readers will know who these two are. I know, I'll put their countries' emblems on their shirts like they're footballers or something, that'll do."
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Jun 18, 2013 01:03
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Might be interesting to post the Private Eye cartoons just to show how horrendous they are. It's weirdly at odds with the rest of the paper which is usually pretty good. They have the regular "Yobs" strip which is classist as hell, and in others whenever they draw Wendi Deng she's always talking with her Ls and Rs swapped like a Chinese stereotype from the 19th century. There was one in the issue before last that very nearly made me stop buying it, but there's not really any other paper that has such good whistleblowing and investigative stories. It had a chav stereotype answering a questionnaire: "Why don't you get a job picking fruit? A. I'm better off on benefits B. I can't be bothered C. What's a fruit?" No sign of "D. There are no jobs, agricultural or otherwise, and the GLA don't have enough powers to keep you safe if you did have one".
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Jun 20, 2013 13:16
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Cloud Potato posted:
Either the guy in pink is floating or Osborne's standing in a hole in the floor. Why's he holding his knife and fork in the wrong hands? That's so non-U. 
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Jun 28, 2013 09:43
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Gonzo McFee posted:Kate's looked into the eyes of an elder god and gone mad. She's just realised that our political system is such that her role as State Uterus supersedes anything she will ever achieve in her lifetime or anything that sets her apart from any other fertile cis-woman, even when raising the child, and the money and status is a hollow comfort.
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Jul 2, 2013 12:30
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Gonzo McFee posted:I'm fairly sure the regular queen of the scroungers is just called The Queen. How is he this close to getting it? "The taxpayer had actually bought her a crown!" and he still draws for the most monarchist paper. Maybe he does and it's meant to be a dig at the monarchy phrased in such a way that it got into The Express.
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Jul 3, 2013 01:15
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Looks sort of like a magpie on the left bottom side of the tree.Kegluneq posted:Pictured: Two inhuman parasitical life forms seeking dominion over mankind and the destruction of the weak, standing next to some Daleks. Don't feel bad. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/14/prince-charles-estate-tax-avoidance
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Jul 5, 2013 12:53
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NightHunter posted:You can see the outline of the leaves from the tree through the wall. Shoddy Eastern European workmanship I'll bet, taking all our construction jobs (nothing to do with the government not funding enough training and apprenticeships here in the UK), rurgh rurgh
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Jul 5, 2013 15:15
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Now I want a briefcase with my job title on it too.  Couldn't he have drawn some easily recognisable members of the cabinet or something instead? They're a funny-looking bunch, other cartoonists have great fun drawing them.I also like the news stand, in English, no less, on an otherwise barren alien planet. edit: and the fact that Britain is ENORMOUS compared to continental Europe. And Africa and the Indian sub-continent must be at the south pole (or they don't exist, wouldn't surprise me for the Express). And the three different planets with visible rings apparently all in our solar system to be that close to Earth. There's just so many terrible things about that cartoon, I keep noticing new ones hidden away. Stottie Kyek fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 01:27
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Make it a pit pony, and put the pig in pinstripes.
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Jul 14, 2013 02:15
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The last prime minister he tried to give a pressie to was Attlee, but he was sent packing because it's not very socialist to give presents to people who are already wealthy and powerful, particularly when Santa is well placed to redistribute wealth fairly at least one day of the year.
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Jul 18, 2013 00:06
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That moose is brilliant. I can't stop laughing at that loving thing. Why does it, instead of all the actually good political cartoons, have to stick in my head? edit: I figured it out, it's because it completely dominates the panel and steals all the attention away from the royals and the joke. The actual scene only takes place in a wee corner of the picture, the rest of it is taken up with that brilliantly stupid moose. Is he secretly taking the piss out of the royals? Stottie Kyek fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jul 22, 2013 |
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Jul 22, 2013 00:38
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: How many horrible stereotypes can you spot? (also the CND logo, may as well smear another campaign while we're at it)
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Aug 11, 2013 16:53
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Jedit posted:Frankie Boyle thought it was called "Mock the Weak", and signed up. He's a strange one, I never know what to think of him. On the one hand he makes lovely sexist/homophobic/transphobic/rape apologetic etc. jokes like he's possessed by the ghost of Bernard Manning, but on the other he donated £50k to the campaign to free Shaker Aamer and went on hunger strike to draw attention to his case.
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Sep 1, 2013 13:24
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It's a testament to Rowson's artisic skill that he's drawn a horse that looks like a horse but also like Len McCluskey, who doesn't look especially horsey.
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Sep 9, 2013 08:00
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DreddyMatt posted:He got a fox face in though (left bicep) And I count three naked bodies, drawn in Thomas's standard "Kilroy was here" style. What must Beckham's legs look like, judging from that drawing? It looks as though he either has wide, curvy hips and really narrow thighs, or he just stops at a rounded base, like a weebl in Y-fronts.
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Sep 11, 2013 18:22
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DOCTOR That is a terrible racist caricature, it's even worse than one of Mac's. I keep noticing more horrible little details he's lovingly added to it, like the big hoop earrings and the window squeegee. (Is that a stereotype? Do Express readers think all Romanians are window-cleaners or something?)
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Oct 23, 2013 00:56
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That hat is a lot like the one Clarkson wore in Romania "to make the gypsies think I'm one of them".
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Nov 1, 2013 04:27
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:He's got a coal tender. It's clearly Henry. Henry does look a lot like Cameron too. It's been spotted before, there's groups on Facebook celebrating that fact.   
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Nov 3, 2013 18:37
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I just scrolled down and didn't see the tattoo at first, so all I saw was what looked like Camilla pointing and laughing at a naked Charles and assumed it was a potentially treasonous dick joke or something.
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Nov 15, 2013 02:02
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The kid looks a bit confused and his dad looks like he's about to steer him away from the creepy man who's ranting about EU migrants to strangers. He's gaping in shock at this weird racist man.
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Dec 13, 2013 09:17
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I'm surprised at the Daily Mail cartoonist making a joke at the expense of ARE BRAVE ARMED 4CES. Wonder if it'll get any complaints from regular readers.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:10
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I thought UKIP were a "non-racist, libertarian party"? There's nothing remotely libertarian about the government banning burqas and niqabs, "safeguarding" certain companies, reintroducing the Treason Act(!) and interfering in something as trivial as a radio station jingle. Not that I'm advocating libertarianism, I'm one of those dirty Marxists they mention in point 2, but I didn't expect them to be lying about both parts of their description.
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Feb 19, 2014 03:14
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At first I thought it was mocking Salmond sucking up to big private companies, but then I remembered it was The Times. edit: actually wasn't he a big fan of News International? I'm surprised at them being rude about him now. Stottie Kyek fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Feb 25, 2014 03:35
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Oh god, I just noticed the black guy on the right with the backwards baseball cap and the thick lips. I was so distracted by Mac's xenophobia I didn't even notice his racism first time around.
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Feb 25, 2014 03:57
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Betjeman posted:Today's Telegraph was pretty good: When I first saw this I thought, "what the hell, Adams, Shinzo Abe doesn't look like that, you just drew Stephen Fry". But I hadn't seen a picture of him in a while and he actually does look quite a bit like the UK Megathread's nemesis himself. Apologies to Adams (for the first and last time).
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Mar 6, 2014 21:01
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baka kaba posted:That's just sound advice in general though 
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Kurtofan posted:gently caress you mac. Is the Mail really talking about trans people wanting to not be outed? It's barely even been a year since Lucy Meadows killed herself because The Mail harassed her and said she shouldn't be teaching schoolchildren because of her trans status. gently caress you, Mac, indeed.
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