Gay Abortions Awards: The Worst Political Cartoons of 2015

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World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

Another year passed and another year of horrible cartoons to vote on. Welcome to Fourth Annual Gay Abortions!

Previous Years' Gay Abortions:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mid-term

Process:
Any poster may submit cartoons until 23:59 EST on January 6th. Please only submit a single cartoon for each category. A post does not require a nominee for each category. Everyone is allowed one post in which to nominate cartoons. If you would like to change your nominees, please edit that post before the deadline on January 6th. Because we are running late this year, please do not submit anything produced after December 31st of 2015.

Most of what was submitted to the Mid-Term Gay Abortions will be automatically up for nomination this go around. I will be moving ones that were submitted to 'Worst Transphobic' to 'Least Concealed Bigotry (LBGT)' as that will not be a category this time. There also will not be 'Cheerleading for Putin' so if you had one nominated during the Mid-term resubmit it to what would be an appropriate category.

Voting will begin immediately after the submissions are compiled into the post below this one. Voting will last till 23:59 EST January 10th. The votes will be tallied and results announced as soon as tallying is done. Vote for each category by naming the category and the letter indicating that political cartoon. A template ballot will be provided.

Judges:
Fulchrum and I are this year's tyrannical judges. Chamale will also be helping with the tally.
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.

Rules and Suggestions:
Standard D&D rules apply.
Please don't quote all the images from a nomination post unless you intend to discuss all them.
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.

Categories:
This is the largest Gay Abortion yet with 16 categories. We have four categories this year based around specific events, split 'Bigotry' into two separate ones, and two new general categories. The award categories are

Worst Middle East cartoon
Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon (Charlie Hebdo & 11/13/15 Attacks)
Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon
Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon
Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy
Worst Caricature
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon
Worst Cartoon about a Movie
Worst Label
Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon
Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon
Most Easily Reinterpreted
Overall Worst Political Cartoon
Best Edit/Parody

And by popular demand for the last year or two

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year'

for completely incomprehensible cartoons.

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Winners!

Worst Middle East cartoon:

With 23% of the vote, Bob Lang narrowly beat out the second place comer... Bob Lang. If I am running this again next year, I will trim these down better.

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

With an impressive 43% Ted Rall lets us know what is really important about the Charlie Hebdo shootings. Ben Garrison's Political Correctness Suicide came in distant second.

Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

23% of the vote went to the Daily Mail's Mac for refering to refugees as literal vermin. Joe Liccar was not to far behind.

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Branco got 28% of the vote by summoning the specter of Joseph Mengele. Glenn McCoy was a close second.

Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:

22% of the vote gives Branco another 'win'. The rest of the votes were fairly evenly split.

Worst Caricature:

Ted Rall barely got another award by giving us multiple unrecognizable grotesqueries with only 18% of the vote.

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

With 16% total votes, Kirschen is awarded for this wet fart after seeing his dreams realized. Gorrell lost by a single vote which seems appropriate.

Worst Cartoon about a Movie:

Combining two movies into one pointless cartoon, Glenn 7oDN wins with 35% of the vote. Second place goes to Branco.

Worst Label:

Bell sadly wins with 23% by defacing what could be a powerful cartoon. All other nominees came in with less then 10%.

Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

Get hosed Glenn McCoy, ya' win with 34% vote. Lang's ME cartoon earns second with only half the votes as McCoy.

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:

Branco is on a roll, winning with 27% of the vote. Mike Lester came in second.

Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:

Rameriz places first with 35% by turning in a blank canvas with four words. Christian Adams takes second by skipping the words altogether.

Most Easily Reinterpreted:

Gorrell wins with 20%. Losing by two votes is Glenn McCoy.

Overall Worst Political Cartoon:

After placing first in ME and second in Racism, Lang's cartoon is awarded Worst by 23% of the vote. Coming in second is Ramirez.

Best Edit/Parody:

and the rest of the series.
In a landslide, Rorus Raz wins the best parody with 39% of the vote. It is fully earned after making Bok lose his drat mind and spawning a golden thread.

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year':

I have no idea what this means and Ramirez wins with 32%. Branco follows a few steps behind with his nonsense.

Thanks to everyone who participated and thanks to Chamale for the original OP and doing these for the last few years.

World Famous W fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jan 14, 2016

# ? Dec 28, 2015 21:17

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 10:02

World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Mister Beeg's series of cartoons.

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World Famous W fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jan 8, 2016

# ? Dec 28, 2015 21:17

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

World Famous W posted:

And by popular demand for the last year or two

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year'

Originally proposed as "most bungled metaphor" or "cartoon that makes the least amount of sense if you think about it for a single second". Such as "Hitler and Napoleon's ghosts are laughing in glee because France and Germany refuse to support the war in Iraq". But sure, most incomprehensible cartoon it is.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 00:28

Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

That comes under Most Easily AGCed, doesn't it?

# ? Dec 29, 2015 01:00

fool of sound: Oct 10, 2012

Worst Middle East cartoon:

Most Easily Reinterpreted:

Least Concealed Bigotry (Rascism):

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year':

Unironic Best Cartoon

# ? Dec 29, 2015 01:20

PUGGERNAUT: Nov 14, 2013; I AM INCREDIBLY BORING AND SHOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT FOOD IN THE POLITICS THREAD

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Worst Caricature:

Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

Most Easily Reinterpreted:

Overall Worst Political Cartoon:

Best Edit/Parody:

PUGGERNAUT fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jan 2, 2016

# ? Dec 29, 2015 01:51

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon

Felt this was best place for it

Most Easily Reinterpreted

Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Dec 29, 2015

# ? Dec 29, 2015 02:03

Mister Beeg: Sep 7, 2012; A Certified Jerk

Will probably add more later.

Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:

Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:

# ? Dec 29, 2015 02:04

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Throwing in this for:
Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

I'm sure he's done some great work for the LGBT and refugee categories but I must have blocked it out.

e: More

Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jan 1, 2016

# ? Dec 29, 2015 02:08

Action-Man: Aug 12, 2007; Adventure Time
come on grab your friends

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Worst Caricature:

Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:

Not the "worst" but the "best a thing happened" cartoon:

Never change JRRose.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 03:42

ajkalan: Aug 17, 2011

Worst Middle East cartoon:
Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:
Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:
Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:

(Close runner-up is this Mallard Fillmore)

Worst Caricature:
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Movie:
Worst Label:
Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:
Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:

Those MS Paint lines.

Most Easily Reinterpreted:

Overall Worst Political Cartoon:

Apologies, indeed. How do you mess up this badly when you have a reference image right in front of you?

Best Edit/Parody:
'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year':

ajkalan fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Dec 29, 2015

# ? Dec 29, 2015 03:49

NoEyedSquareGuy: Mar 16, 2009; Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

Adding to my post in the mid-year thread:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

# ? Dec 29, 2015 04:40

Mycroft Holmes: Mar 26, 2010; by Azathoth

This thread really reminds me why I stopped reading the political cartoon thread.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 06:33

Polygynous: Dec 13, 2006; welp

Mycroft Holmes posted:

This thread really reminds me why I stopped reading the political cartoon thread.

I was just about to post this. My liquor budget is big enough as it is.

Good(?) to see Ramirez hasn't stopped being an awful hack.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 06:35

Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

Can we nominate a series for laziest? Cause I say Drinky Duck losing the head feathers. Its Tinsley finally jut giving up entirely and realising he doesn't care enough to even stick to his character design. Some individual comics can be lazier, but thats by far the laziest act of the year.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 12:23

World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

Fulchrum posted:

Can we nominate a series for laziest? Cause I say Drinky Duck losing the head feathers. Its Tinsley finally jut giving up entirely and realising he doesn't care enough to even stick to his character design. Some individual comics can be lazier, but thats by far the laziest act of the year.

Yeah, just upload multiple examples with an explanation why you think it is lazy.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 15:40

root beer: Nov 13, 2005

I would like to suggest that the award for laziest be named the Bob Gorrell Award for Sloth in Cartooning, since the man himself earned his Lifetime Achievement Award.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 15:54

twerking on the railroad: Jun 23, 2007; Get on my level

I've noticed a disturbing lack of Kirschen. I suspected I could fill a ballot of nominees with just Kirschen. Almost. I'll edit more into this later.

Worst Middle East cartoon:

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:
Worst Caricature:

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Movie:
Worst Label:
Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:
Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:

is an actual self-plagiarization of the 2009 comic

Most Easily Reinterpreted:
Overall Worst Political Cartoon:
Best Edit/Parody:

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year':

twerking on the railroad fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jan 3, 2016

# ? Dec 29, 2015 19:08

Hitler B. Natural: Feb 11, 2014

Worst Middle East cartoon:

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon:

Worst Planned Parenthood Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:

Worst Caricature:

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

Worst Cartoon about a Movie:

Worst Label:

Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:

Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:

Most Easily Reinterpreted:

Overall Worst Political Cartoon:

Best Edit/Parody:
This entire series:

'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year':

# ? Dec 29, 2015 22:17

fool of sound: Oct 10, 2012

Also, I should post this reminder that, should Gorrel not have been banned, he would have won yet again:

His first cartoon of this year.

e: also:

Broken Loose posted:

I went back through Gorrell's archives to see if I could find last year's version of that cartoon. What I found instead was worse.

December 27, 2013

December 27, 2012

December 31, 2011

I actually said, "Holy poo poo, are you loving serious?" out loud to myself.

EDIT:
December 31, 2010

# ? Dec 29, 2015 22:37

1stGear: Jan 16, 2010; Here's to the new us.

quote:

He actually did it. He actually loving did it.

# ? Dec 29, 2015 22:42

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

Mycroft Holmes posted:

This thread really reminds me why I stopped reading the political cartoon thread.

Same, and also why I loved it.

MOUNTAIN of DEBT

# ? Dec 30, 2015 00:01

BlueBlazer: Apr 1, 2010

1stGear posted:

He actually did it. He actually loving did it.

He is reading this thread....

# ? Dec 30, 2015 00:02

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

fool_of_sound posted:

Also, I should post this reminder that, should Gorrel not have been banned, he would have won yet again:

His first cartoon of this year.

e: also:

To be fair, he specifically labels those all as holiday repeats, which is at least honest and a thing cartoonists do from time to time.

The stupid New Year's one was just him being lazy as gently caress and turning in the wrong cartoon, but this is all moot because he releases at least one blank cartoon a year which makes him a shoe-in.

# ? Dec 30, 2015 00:28

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Can't post for 2 hours!; Young Orc

I can't believe some of these are from this year, Pajamaboy seems like so long ago...

# ? Dec 30, 2015 01:02

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I've got nothing to do tomorrow so I might try and find a Mac for every category. :britain:

Pilchenstein fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Dec 30, 2015

# ? Dec 30, 2015 01:30

CrowsNestMutineer: Mar 9, 2009; _{* Juciano makes the best damned Caesar dressing I've ever tasted in my life.}

Hitler B. Natural posted:

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

This could also be a contender for Most Easily Reinterpreted. She looks like she's going to set Europe on fire.

# ? Dec 30, 2015 01:45

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Pilchenstein posted:

I've got nothing to do tomorrow so I might try and find a Mac for every category.

I don't know if you'll find a Planned Parenthood one. Also the Mac archive only seems to go up to August '14, so you might have to pick through the Mail proper :gonk:

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This could also be a contender for Most Easily Reinterpreted. She looks like she's going to set Europe on fire.

Isn't that the standard US solution to extremism in Europe?

# ? Dec 30, 2015 02:03

beepsandboops: Jan 28, 2014

Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:

I'm not sure what category this one goes in or even what it was originally referring to, but I feel like it needs some sort of recognition:

# ? Dec 30, 2015 05:09

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

beepsandboops posted:

I really want to see the angels that run the "God News" newspaper office.

Is it just the same issue over and over with "Reminder - you are all seeing and omnipotent" on every page?

# ? Dec 30, 2015 05:24

Quorum: Sep 24, 2014; REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

WampaLord posted:

I really want to see the angels that run the "God News" newspaper office.

Is it just the same issue over and over with "Reminder - you are all seeing and omnipotent" on every page?

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# ? Dec 30, 2015 06:06

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

I lot of cartoonists turn in lazy, hacky work over stuff they don't actually give a poo poo about, but only Yaakov Kirschen decided to be ridiculously lazy about a subject he's been banging on about for years. His response to Justin Pollard being freed was pathetic, even for a man who can barely cobble together images suitable for a children's book. It's my pick for Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon.

Jonas Albrecht fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Dec 30, 2015

# ? Dec 30, 2015 06:11

Torches Upon Stars: Jan 17, 2015; The future is bright.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I lot of cartoonists turn in lazy, hacky work over stuff they don't actually give a poo poo about, but only Yaakov Kirschen decided to be ridiculously lazy about a subject he's been banging on about for years. His response to Justin Pollard being freed was pathetic, even for a man who can barely cobble together images suitable for a children's book. It's my pick for Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon.

Not even posting the cartoon. A fitting tribute to the Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon.

http://i.imgur.com/a2InA8e.gif

Torches Upon Stars fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jan 1, 2016

# ? Dec 30, 2015 07:40

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Iron Heart posted:

Not even posting the cartoon. A fitting tribute to the Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon.

I was looking and then forgot.

# ? Dec 30, 2015 07:54

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

I'm surprised there's no Holmes-Rodgers Award For Meritorious Defense Of Liberty for lovely gun rights/mass shootings cartoons.

# ? Dec 30, 2015 07:54

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

spoon0042 posted:

Good(?) to see Ramirez hasn't stopped being an awful hack.

Well, at least he hasn't done any 'If global warming, why cold?' cartoons this winter. Gee, i wonder why

# ? Dec 30, 2015 10:13

Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

JcDent posted:

I'm surprised there's no Holmes-Rodgers Award For Meritorious Defense Of Liberty for lovely gun rights/mass shootings cartoons.

We culled.

# ? Dec 30, 2015 11:27

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

WampaLord posted:

I really want to see the angels that run the "God News" newspaper office.

Is it just the same issue over and over with "Reminder - you are all seeing and omnipotent" on every page?

This is why any discerning god reads Godsmopolitan magazine instead.

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# ? Dec 30, 2015 11:41

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Pilchenstein posted:

I've got nothing to do tomorrow so I might try and find a Mac for every category.

I'm conflicted about my Mac nomination for Worst Refugee Crisis Cartoon, it's a split between the literal Nazi rats one and:

Here's one for Worst Paris Attacks Cartoon:

e: Placed into one single post fot thread rules.

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Jan 1, 2016

# ? Dec 30, 2015 12:16

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Rappaport: Oct 2, 2013

Action-Man posted:

Worst Caricature:

I'm sorry that I'm an idiot, but I can't figure out who this is supposed to be. Help please?

# ? Dec 30, 2015 12:28

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