BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT’S WHY
BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT’S WHY
Here’s an interesting site - a large collection of US political cartoonists (and a smattering from other countries) brought together in one place to discuss the same subject. What can we learn from this?
Most political cartoonists are rubbish. For the Republican convention in NYC, King Kong is reprised with an elephant, again, and again, and again, unto death. The same puffy faces, big heads, scritchy-scratchy Oliphantine linework, the same bespoke-suit elephants standing in front of the same cartoon podiums, in front of the same flags. And that’s just the Dems. The Republican cartoonists, only able to offer a pallid reflection of the left’s current blazing anger, produce work that seems filled with nothing, styrofoam stated as fact. Michael Moore is brought out on a stick and waved around, an effigy to throw easy rocks at. The other side uses Arnold Schwartznegger to the same effect - rarely is the Governor quoted beyond the ubiquitous ‘girlie-man’. That’s one up on Moore’s cartoon duplicates, who are never allowed to speak. He’s a bit fat - DO YOU SEE? Clinton has an operation and suddenly it’s an endless stream of weak, pathetic gags about hospital inmates touching nurse’s bums in musty ‘Carry On’ fashion as the spectacular venom of the ’satirical’ cartoon world really makes readers sit up and blow their own brains out through SHEER AMAZEMENT at the FORCE of such POWERFUL STATEMENTS. And beneath every pathetic waste of bandwidth we get a tiny photo of a smug man with bad hair seemingly squealing “Lookit MEEEEE! I drew a powerful picture of Russia as a BIG BEAR! Aren’t I just the BEST COMMENTATOR THAT EVER THERE WAS??”
WHY DO THESE PEOPLE STILL HAVE JOBS?
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