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Sep 24, 2014

REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

Vib Rib posted:

Not that this sentiment really breaks new ground but I'm really loving sick of the "boy 2016 sure sucked!" excuse for a joke being so endlessly regurgitated. There was a rant to this effect on The Worst Things for Sale -- it got a little too into the topic but expressed a similar sentiment.


Everyone's been hopping on this train, from random YouTube commenters to Twitter personalities, but just for the sake of relevancy, let's assume you're a nationally syndicated cartoonist. You have the power to reach, with your words, an audience so vast that an uncountable many people would envy your voice.
You could say something profound, but instead let's just go with "gosh 2016 was so bad!!" Nailed that one. Great job.

To be honest the predominating message thus far has been "2016 sucked... and all signs are 2017 will be worse because Trump."

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Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Vib Rib posted:

Not that this sentiment really breaks new ground but I'm really loving sick of the "boy 2016 sure sucked!" excuse for a joke being so endlessly regurgitated. There was a rant to this effect on The Worst Things for Sale -- it got a little too into the topic but expressed a similar sentiment.

Everyone's been hopping on this train, from random YouTube commenters to Twitter personalities, but just for the sake of relevancy, let's assume you're a nationally syndicated cartoonist. You have the power to reach, with your words, an audience so vast that an uncountable many people would envy your voice.
You could say something profound, but instead let's just go with "gosh 2016 was so bad!!" Nailed that one. Great job.
The study linked is titled On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit and I haven't read the full paper yet, but the title intrigues me.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!


Best of Bok 2016 has been posted. It turns out Bok is such a great cartoonist that 40 cartoons qualified.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Nenonen posted:

I had to reverse image search to find out that this is Marian Kamensky, a Slovak who now lives in Austria. I do like his Don Martin'esque style, I just worry that Secret Service will extradite him if he keeps going like this...

e: or not even Don Martin style - agh, I'm at loss here, some Mad cartoonist had a similar style but I just can't bring the name to my mind!

Are you thinking of Basil Wolverton? The cartoons of his less talented son Monty Wolverton are posted here sometimes.

Trapezium Dave
Oct 22, 2012

:tinsley: Those darn kids with their gizmos and their socialisms and not vocalising their "Wooooo"s.

Caithness
Nov 10, 2012

HEY!!!
YOU CAN SEE ME, CAN'T YOU? THEN WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME!?


Speaking of pseudo-profound bullshit...

Wait I just realized that could describe a large portion of the cartoons posted in this thread.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Best of Bok 2016 has been posted. It turns out Bok is such a great cartoonist that 40 cartoons qualified.

Vib Rib
Jul 23, 2007

God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss

🍖🍖😛🍖🍖
Good thing "free stuff" is only a strawman cheer you use to mock your opponents and has never been an actual rallying cry for democratic voters.

Ah yes, James Comey, well known for his love of Hillary Clinton, whom he will defend at all costs.
I do so enjoy these cartoons posted from loving Bizarro World.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

Vib Rib posted:


Ah yes, James Comey, well known for his love of Hillary Clinton, whom he will defend at all costs.
I do so enjoy these cartoons posted from loving Bizarro World.

It was probably after he didn't indict her, but before he did the insane, irresponsible patriotic thing and tried to sabotage a national election.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
I saw it mentioned in the OP, but it's been a while since I've regularly followed this thread: what happened with Day by Day? Did he just slip further into whatever inane garbage he had floating around his empty skull of his? Did it just become straight up indecipherable paranoid delusions now with more anime boobs?

E: found the answer in the old thread !
E2: that's not surprising but still incredibly gross

Phone fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Jan 3, 2017

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Phone posted:

I saw it mentioned in the OP, but it's been a while since I've regularly followed this thread: what happened with Day by Day? Did he just slip further into whatever inane garbage he had floating around his empty skull of his? Did it just become straight up indecipherable paranoid delusions now with more anime boobs?

It's still terrible, we were just spared a particularly vile BLM subplot.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Phone posted:

I saw it mentioned in the OP, but it's been a while since I've regularly followed this thread: what happened with Day by Day? Did he just slip further into whatever inane garbage he had floating around his empty skull of his? Did it just become straight up indecipherable paranoid delusions now with more anime boobs?

He became straight up rape porn.

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

Jonas Albrecht posted:

It's still terrible, we were just spared a particularly vile BLM subplot.

Is this Black Lives Matter of Bureau of Land Management? Hey, it could go either way...

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Starshark posted:

Is this Black Lives Matter of Bureau of Land Management? Hey, it could go either way...

See, if I were an enterprising right wing comics artist, I would merge them as a running gag.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

quote:

Two news events in February were all about freedom. One firm launched the world's cheapest smartphone, priced at 251 rupees ($3.67; £3), and called it Freedom 251. At the same time, police arrested some students in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University for allegedly raising anti-India slogans, and demanding "freedom" for Kashmir from Indian rule. The students denied the allegations, but they were charged with sedition. Later, they were freed on bail.
:sad:


quote:

India's flamboyant businessman Vijay Mallya made his fortune selling beer under the Kingfisher brand and branched out into aviation, Formula1 racing, and Indian cricket. But he incurred huge debts because of the failure of his airline. Many have criticised banks for their inability in recovering the debt from Mr Mallya, who denies any wrongdoing. He is currently living in the UK, and hasn't returned to India despite repeated summons by the authorities.
:sad:


quote:

When the chief minister of the eastern state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, promised during his election campaign that he would ban the sale and consumption of alcohol if elected, not many thought he would actually do it. But then he proved everybody wrong!
:smugdon:


quote:

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, he promised to change the country. But his critics say that he has been concentrating more on foreign policy, and travelling the world.
:smugdon:


quote:

In one of the biggest surprises of 2016, Mr Modi on 8 November announced the scrapping of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes to crack down on corruption and illegal cash holdings known as "black money". The sudden announcement made many people's cash worthless.
:sad:

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Might as well post this here, too

I love murder mysteries! :cheers:

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

I love how most of these could be actual functional jokes if the artist had put even the slightest amount of effort into thinking about how cartoons can be structured. Instead, thirty seconds followed by "gently caress it, let's sprinkle around some papers". good work

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!
I, for one, look forward to all the mental hoops conservative cartoonists will have to jump through to excuse the parade of failure Republicans are about to deliver

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Prokhor Zakharov posted:

I, for one, look forward to all the mental hoops conservative cartoonists will have to jump through to excuse the parade of failure Republicans are about to deliver

How on Heaven & Earth could it be anything other than 4-8 years of "this is Obama's fault!"?

Or just this poo poo forever.
https://twitter.com/Quindel1plex/status/816111601308864512

Jonas Albrecht fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jan 3, 2017

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Jonas Albrecht posted:

How on Heaven & Earth could it be anything other than 4-8 years of "this is Obama's fault!"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjQ3hA9mEA

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

What, they didn't get several months to bring their deprecated bank notes to a bank for exchanging them to smaller notes? Or were there just a lot of people who missed the memo until it was too late?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJelEXaPhJ8

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Cat Mattress posted:

What, they didn't get several months to bring their deprecated bank notes to a bank for exchanging them to smaller notes? Or were there just a lot of people who missed the memo until it was too late?

It was and continues to be chaotic and ruinous to India's economy - first off large parts of India are underdeveloped so you can't just go to the nearest ATM because there is no electricity in your village, like 3% of people pay income tax and many don't have bank accounts at all and most people keep all their savings in cash. Then on top of that you have huge cues to banks and ATMs running out of money after which withdraw quotas were put in place and most of the current ATMs not even capable of handling the new bills because the dimensions are so different... all of a sudden people have no legal tender to buy anything, or to pay workers their wages with. And possessing the old bills will become illegal in April.

quote:

A salesman of a shop selling mobile phones in an upscale Delhi suburb told me that a man walked up to his shop on Wednesday with 3 million rupees in cash and offered to buy up his entire stock of iPhones. (He said the owner balked, and shut shop.) A politician in Bihar walked into a jewellery shop and bought gold ornaments worth 20 million rupees. In Kolkata, a dengue patient reportedly settled his 40,000 rupees hospital bills in coins.

quote:

A builder in the capital has apparently paid his daily wage workers two years of advance salaries with the expired cash, leaving his workers to exchange the money. Relatives with expired money at home are calling friends and relatives and asking if they can deposit some of their money into their accounts. Then there's my favourite story of a doctor who had some cash at home which he planned to turn over to the bank, and then discovered to his dismay that his wife had squirreled away six times the amount in her cupboard.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-currency-chaos-rupee-bank-narendra-modi-atm-cash-tax-evasion-a7503681.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37947029

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost
Holy gently caress.

Like, there's a joke political party in New Zealand, that was active until 1999. The McGillicuddy Serious Party. One of its proposed policy changes was enforcing driving on the right-hand side of the road, to be phased in over the course of four years, starting with the heaviest vehicles.

They are somehow more reasonable than what is actually going on in India if Nenonen's info is correct.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Somfin posted:

Holy gently caress.

Like, there's a joke political party in New Zealand, that was active until 1999. The McGillicuddy Serious Party. One of its proposed policy changes was enforcing driving on the right-hand side of the road, to be phased in over the course of four years, starting with the heaviest vehicles.

They are somehow more reasonable than what is actually going on in India if Nenonen's info is correct.

That sounds like a good party platform. They could even get rid of the phasing-in part.

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

Somfin posted:

Holy gently caress.

Like, there's a joke political party in New Zealand, that was active until 1999. The McGillicuddy Serious Party. One of its proposed policy changes was enforcing driving on the right-hand side of the road, to be phased in over the course of four years, starting with the heaviest vehicles.

They are somehow more reasonable than what is actually going on in India if Nenonen's info is correct.

Oh hey I guess that's where Canada's Rhinoceros Party got one of their platform positions from:

quote:

- Repeal the law of gravity

- Providing higher education by building taller schools

- Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages

- Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset

- Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River

- Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space

- Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory in Canada's backyard (after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories -- Nunavut did not yet exist), in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources

- Ending crime by abolishing all laws

- To provide more parking in the Maritimes and to create the world's largest parking lot respectively, paving the Bay of Fundy and the province of Manitoba

-Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley

- Amending Canada's Freedom of Information Act. "Nothing is free anymore; Canadians should have to pay for their information."

- Making the Canadian climate more temperate by tapping into the natural resource of hot air in Ottawa.

- Storing nuclear waste in the Senate. "After all, we've been storing political waste there for years."

- Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last.

- Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California

- Putting the national debt on Visa

- Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons

- Offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montreal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)

- Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times

- Banning guns and butter, since both kill

- Banning lousy Canadian winters

- Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.

- Making the Trans-Canada Highway one way only.

- Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.

- Donate a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada

- Counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans have stolen any

- The Queen of Canada would be seated in Buckingham, Quebec.

- Rather than awarding money as prizes in the lottery, the winners would be appointed to the Canadian Senate.

- Rather than patriate the constitution by bringing it to Canada, as proposed by Pierre Trudeau, the Rhinoceros Party pledged to bring Great Britain home and make it Canada's eleventh province.

- Building one nuclear power plant per household, including monthly distributions of lead underwear to Canadians. Indoor lighting would then be provided by radioactive citizens.

- Burning all the standing barns in Canada to provide energy, under the slogan Burn a barn for Britain.

- Alimony payments would go directly to the federal government, and responsibility for withholding those payments would fall upon the federal government.

- Men would be allowed to work as prostitutes, wet nurses, secretaries and receptionists.

- The Rhinoceros Party party pledge to eliminate small businesses, and replace them with very small business, having less than one employee.

- Candidate Graham Ashley, standing in Ottawa-Vanier, pledged to take Canada off the Gold Standard, and implement a Snow Standard, which would improve the economy until the summer.

- Candidate Stardust the Magician promised to put a roof on Olympic Stadium, using only a $25 million hankerchief.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


Jonas Albrecht posted:

How on Heaven & Earth could it be anything other than 4-8 years of "this is Obama's fault!"?

Or just this poo poo forever.
https://twitter.com/Quindel1plex/status/816111601308864512

I wonder if the Wachowskis regret having made that movie

Baka-nin
Jan 25, 2015

Somfin posted:

Holy gently caress.

Like, there's a joke political party in New Zealand, that was active until 1999. The McGillicuddy Serious Party. One of its proposed policy changes was enforcing driving on the right-hand side of the road, to be phased in over the course of four years, starting with the heaviest vehicles.

They are somehow more reasonable than what is actually going on in India if Nenonen's info is correct.

No its accurate, Venezuela is doing something similar with equally poor results

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37967018

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38355349

The UK has had its fair share of currency transition woes too

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/new-5-pound-note-fiver-british-vegetarians-animal-fats-protest-david-solomon-a7451511.html

Trogdos!
Jul 11, 2009

A DRAGON POKEMAN
well technically a water/flying type
New, original world leader caricature from Kirschen

quote:

North Korea will be on Trump's plate..
Labels: America, Kim Jong Un, North Korea, President, trump



Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares



Holy poo poo, a non-neonazi Red Panels :eyepop:

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

The GOP is gonna gut Congress's independent ethics panel, so I'm sure all the cartoonists who got their rocks off showing BOOGA BOOGA HILLARY sitting on a bunch of garbage cans/luggage/random boxes labeled "SCANDAL" and poo poo will really be concerned oh who am I kidding.

Rincewinds
Jul 30, 2014

MEAT IS MEAT

Potato Salad posted:

Holy poo poo, a non-neonazi Red Panels :eyepop:

He is saluting a picure of the Führer offscreen.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Potato Salad posted:

Holy poo poo, a non-neonazi Red Panels :eyepop:

Even worse, it's a better than average joke compared to most New Year's cartoons.

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!

Dr Strangepants
Nov 26, 2003

Mein Führer! I can dance!
Ah yes, the classic black and white stink line palette.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008


He draws this comic as though a HRC victory wouldn't have resulted in a two-month arc about Hunny Bunny's fourth reich and the ultimate triumph of evil

Like, I'd take it seriously if I was able to convince myself that today's strip in the Clinton Timeline would have been about how they're not thrilled that the character the strip had been building up for years as a literal supervillain has attained ultimate executive power, but hey at least that stinky skunk Trump didn't win, because man would that have been worse. But I don't believe that would be Stantis/Allie's reaction for even one second.

like, what outcome was he hoping for, that Gary Johnson would win because 97% of the electorate became bedridden at the same time

Chakan
Mar 30, 2011
Ok, it's been 4-5 years but I'm back. Very excited to unbookmark this thread 3 weeks and 4000 posts from now!

Happy new year, Politoons thread.

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe



:colbert:

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




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