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 We've been in the political cartoons business for twelve more months. Why? Why indeed... It's now time for the Third Annual Gay Abortions Awards for terrible political cartoons. There are twelve categories, including a prize for the Worst Cartoon of the year. The Process: Anyone who wishes to submit cartoons has until 23:59 EST on December 27 to post their nominees. For each category, post a single cartoon published this year. A post does not require a nominee for each category. Every poster is allowed one post in which they nominate submissions for worst cartoon of the year. If you'd like to add to or change your nominees, please edit that post before 23:59 EST on December 27. There is now a bonus category for best edit/parody of a political cartoon made this year. Voting will begin immediately after the submissions are compiled into the post below this one. The votes will be tallied and results announced on January 1st, 2014. Vote for each category by naming the category and the letter indicating that political cartoon. The Judges: Your tyrannical judges are myself, The Crotch, and Koishi Komeiji. We now have enough people to count the votes. The judges may agree to veto any submission, or trim a list if there are too many nominees. Please ask if you have questions about the Gay Abortions Awards or any part of the nomination and voting processes. What to do: Please don't quote all 12 images from a nomination post unless you intend to discuss all twelve. For discussions about current politics not related to the Awards, please take it to the regular Political Cartoons Thread. Post political cartoons of at least some prominence. Any thread regular or syndicated cartoonist is fine, pulling cartoons from a nobody's DeviantArt account is not. The Categories We've updated the four topical awards for highly-discussed events of the year. Here are The Award Categories: Worst Middle East Cartoon Worst Police Brutality Cartoon Worst Torture Report Cartoon Worst The Interview Cartoon Worst cartoon about a tragedy Worst caricature Worst "A Thing Happened" cartoon Worst Label Least concealed bigotry in a cartoon Laziest cartoon Most easily reinterpreted Overall worst political cartoon of the year Best edit/parody January 1st edit: The winners! Here are this year's Gay Abortions Awards: Worst Middle East Cartoon  Yaakov Kirschen wins a Gay Abortion Award in a landslide over runner-up Michael Ramirez with 44% of the vote. Kirschen is a long-running Israeli cartoonist who surprised everyone by becoming even more anti-Muslim over the past few months. Worst Police Brutality Cartoon  Michael Ramirez wins this Gay Abortion Award with 28% of the vote, and also placed in second for this category. This victim-blaming cartoon posits that an unarmed teenager shot to death by a police officer is solely responsible for his own death. Worst Torture Report Cartoon  Ramirez wins his second Gay Abortion Award of the year with 45% of the vote, over runner-up Mike Lester. Many hack cartoonists are known to uses 9/11 victims as mouthpieces for their views, in this case Ramirez's view that torture is acceptable when America does it. Worst The Interview Cartoon  Glenn Foden wins a Gay Abortion Award with 55% of the vote, over runner-up Michael Ramirez. This cartoon about North Korea-backed hackers pressuring Sony into pulling The Interview manages to be both incoherent and racist. Worst cartoon about a tragedy  Ramirez wins his third Gay Abortion Award of the year with 20% of the vote, over runner-up Mike Lester. Ramirez would like to remind the oppressed that any protests will result in the media focussing on opportunistic looters and not the important reasons for the protest. Worst caricature  Ramirez wins his fourth Gay Abortion Award with 33% of the vote, over runner-up Yaakov Kirschen. It looks like Holder's head has stolen all of the extra mass from Wormbama tiny narrow skull. Worst "A Thing Happened" cartoon  Glenn McCoy wins this Gay Abortion Award with 17% of the vote, narrowly beating A.F. Branco. "A Thing Happened" cartoons simply depict events that happened, but Glenn McCoy's racism shone like polished poo poo in a pile of mud. Worst Label  Michael Ramirez wins his fifth Gay Abortion Award this year with 27% of the vote, over runner-up iNCK. We're really getting sick of this guy and his overly cross-hatched cartoons comparing large objects to the size of the national debt. Least concealed bigotry in a cartoon  Stilton Jarlsberg wins this coveted Gay Abortion Award with 24% of the vote, over runner-up Gary McCoy. This is a hotly contested category each year, and Hope 'N Change won because this cartoon slanders some unfortunate stock photo model. Laziest cartoon  Bob Gorrell wins this Gay Abortion award with 55% of the vote, over distant second Michael Ramirez. If I put as much effort into this sentence as Gorrell gave to this cartoon, Most easily reinterpreted  Michael Ramirez wins his sixth Gay Abortion Award of the year with 57% of the vote, over runners-up Bruce Tinsley and A.F. Branco. This cartoon takes a bible verse about The Lord turning weapons into farming tools, and depicts Obama doing something similar. Overall worst political cartoon of the year Michael Ramirez wins the ultimate Gay Abortion Award of 2014 with 43% of the vote, and also takes the runner-up position. Ramirez has a history of winning these awards by using the dead as a soapbox. Best Edit/Parody   Forums user Saint Sputnik wins this delightful award with 27% of the vote, over runner-up Gilganixon. More of these parodies can be found at Ye Fowl Herald's tumblr. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Political Cartoons Thread in 2014, and a special thanks to The Crotch and Koishi Komeiji for their help making decisions and counting the votes! See you next year, and remember: There is always more and it is always worse. 2012 Gay Abortions thread 2013 Gay Abortions thread Chamale fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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Worst Middle East Cartoon A B C D E F G H I J K LWorst Police Brutality Cartoon A B C D E F G  H I J K LWorst Torture Report Cartoon  A B C D E F G H I J KWorst The Interview Cartoon  A B C D EWorst cartoon about a tragedy  A (Michael Brown shooting) B (James Foley beheading) C (Michael Brown shooting) D (Michael Brown shooting) E (James Foley beheading) F (Peshawar school massacre) G (Multiple) H (Ottawa terrorist attack) I (Refugee crisis) J (MH17 shootdown)Worst caricature A (Holder-worm) B (Catalino-bama) C (Jewish cuckoos) D (Rand Paul) E (Bok Obama) F (Bishbama) G (Anita Sarkeesian)Worst "A Thing Happened" cartoon  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QWorst Label  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N OLeast concealed bigotry in a cartoon  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N OLaziest cartoon A B C (mass nomination) D E F G H I J K L M NMost easily reinterpreted  A B C D E F G H I J K LOverall worst political cartoon of the year  A B C D E F G H I JBest edit/parody     A (Day By Penis) B C  D (Ye Fowl Herald) E F G H I J K L M N O P QWe're McCoy and McCoy Ignorance and scorn We used our art to mock the gays and torment the for-lorn We specialized in bigotry Spreading fear and doubt And if the facts did not line up we simply threw them out  "There was the year we mocked an entire town of black people!" "I remember them all standing on the streets." "With their frostbitten protest signs!" "DOH HO HO HO HO HO!"We're McCoy and McCoy Our arts were cold and dead We should have known our evil toons would put us both in ed-its Copy, paste, we're photoshopped taunted on each date As respect comes from giving love Derision comes from hate "But my friends, you did not hate cartooning." "True, there was something about cartooning we loved." "I think it was our paychecks!" "DOH HO HO HO HO HO!"We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa Doomed, Payne! You're doomed for all time! Your career is a horror story painted by your crime! Your 'shops are forged by what you draw and do! So have your fun when life is done a donkey waits for you! "Why these terrible edits?" "Oooooh, the edits."" We made these edits in life by our arts of hate." "You bear such an edit yourself.""Humbug, speak comfort to me friends." " You will be haunted by three artists.""Haunted? I've already had enough of that. " Without these visits you can not hope to avoid the past we tread."" Expect the first one tonight, when the bell tolls one!""Can't I meet them all at once and get it over with?" "When the bell tolls ooooooone..."We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa We're McCoy and McCoy Whoooooooooooooa Change! Chamale fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Dec 21, 2014 02:45
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Time to vote, nominees are up in the first reply! Vote for each one with the letter and category.
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Dec 28, 2014 08:27
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With the way this thing is growing, by 2016 we'll need Greek letters for the largest categories. Or more realistically, we'll have some kind of vetting process. Would it be easier for everyone to read the nominees if I TIMG all the images? Karl Rove posted:
Sorry, I missed that. I see you nominated it as "Worst Middle East Cartoon and Worst Overall Cartoon", and I missed the second part while compiling the nominees. It is now nominee J.
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Dec 28, 2014 10:37
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Pilchenstein posted:Was the Waldorf & Statler thing added to the edit category late? Pretty sure it wasn't there when I voted. It's kind of unfair on the other edits to include the pinnacle of the human endeavour though, can we not just give it a prize of it's own? I wasn't sure if a song belonged in the best parody category or not, after a bit of talk with the judges we decided to allow it. Next time we might have a best song award, but tabulating votes already takes several hours and I'm always worried about increasing the number of categories.
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Dec 29, 2014 21:32
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Edit: Would it also be possible to bring back the little blurbs for each winner, when the results are decided? I enjoyed you guys counting cartoonists who won more than once, as well as how close the voting was. Sure thing. Counting the votes is a lot of work, but thanks to The Crotch and Koishi Komeiji we'll be able to count votes fast and with a bit more detail.
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Dec 31, 2014 08:24
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Thanks for your hard work! Something to add a bit of flavor, if it's not extra work: lots of people are posting really good rationales for why they chose the ones they did, you could include particularly articulate explanations from the vote posts which explain why a given comic deserves to be selected above the rests. You'd just have to find someone who voted for the category's winner and gave an explanation, so maybe that would be too much work. But it's a thought, maybe for next year if it would help to plan for it from the start. I'm planning to write short blurbs for each winner. The reason I didn't do it last year was that I was the only person available to count votes, so now that I've got help from The Crotch and Koishi Komeiji it's much faster.
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The winners have been announced! Although Karl Rove said we still need to wait for the results from Florida. For those of you who like data, here's the exact number of votes from each category: Middle East A: 22 B: 3 C: 60 D: 7 E: 6 F: 2 G: 7 H: 7 I: 2 J: 4 K: 12 L: 9 Police Brutality A: 31 B: 39 C: 2 D: 13 E: 26 F: 9 G: 3 H: 3 I: 3 J: 1 K: 2 L: 8 Torture Report A: 5 B: 1 C: 2 D: 62 E: 3 F: 4 G: 32 H: 21 I: 4 J: 4 K: 1 The Interview A: 29 B: 75 C: 1 D: 27 E: 5 Tragedy A: 6 B: 12 C: 18 D: 28 E: 12 F: 16 G: 12 H: 11 I: 7 J: 16 Caricature A: 46 B: 20 C: 29 D: 2 E: 4 F: 9 G: 28 A Thing Happened A: 9 B: 2 C: 18 D: 2 E: 8 F: 7 G: 1 H: 1 I: 12 J: 22 K: 5 L: 15 M: 0 N: 0 O: 24 P: 5 Q: 6 Label A: 1 B: 17 C: 1 D: 4 E: 17 F: 0 G: 37 H: 0 I: 11 J: 17 K: 23 L: 0 M: 3 Bigotry A: 22 B: 4 C: 19 D: 10 E: 6 F: 0 G: 0 H: 33 I: 4 J: 5 K: 4 L: 6 M: 1 N: 5 O: 16 Laziest A: 76 B: 0 C: 9 D: 1 E: 8 F: 4 G: 0 H: 6 I: 1 J: 9 K: 6 L: 11 M: 6 N: 1 Most Easily Reinterpreted A: 14 B: 79 C: 10 D: 10 E: 1 F: 1 G: 1 H: 14 I: 1 J: 1 K: 3 L: 3 Overall Worst A: 7 B: 3 C: 15 D: 18 E: 5 F: 7 G: 7 H: 5 I: 60 J: 9 Best Edit/Parody A: 8 B: 8 C: 1 D: 39 E: 13 F: 5 G: 15 H: 0 I: 21 J: 5 K: 3 L: 6 M: 0 N: 1 O: 2 P: 1 Q: 11
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CrowsNestMutineer posted:Not that anyone actually wants or needs to see it again, but you didn't post an image for the winner of "Least concealed bigotry." Thank you, I've fixed that now.
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