batshit rightwing cartoons: 2012 and imaginary romney presidency years edition

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amazing that we haven't had a thread going all year AFAICT - maybe for the best. I can't seem to find the really juicy ones I expected - everyone seems either demoralized or so far into fantasy-land that none of the talking points connect. checking the usual suspects....

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war on children

all gold

this is really hard, apparently gaggle folded a while ago? jim huber has only done one strip all year, and i'm really struggling to figure out where creators.com has hidden the dude with the scratchy drawings and the thumbs-up osama

thankfully day by day remains completely hung up on right-wing blogosphere "scandals" that nobody else has heard of. most recent strip:

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seriously trying to figure out if that's supposed to be a dress full of huge holes or patches, to indicate our economic woes

omg wow this website: http://the-red-thread.net/RIGHT-WING-CARTOONS.html

they're not dated so for all i know we already discovered them but i sure don't remember it and omg omg omg

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i think she has barnacles stuck to her
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http://drawfortruth.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/i-voted-today-final-500srgb.jpg?w=500&h=420

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^^^ website has a section called "Kids World"

what the fuck is that last one

sorry for the glut but i haven't looked at this stuff in ages

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^^^ swear to god, "fist bump" is still a thing

the euro debt one is kinda right on

omg, thumbs-up osama guy retired back in 2010!

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not a lot of content on page 1 there

that is really one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen on like 5 levels

I like that the name of the paper is simply "New."

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oh, Asay:

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one more for tonight

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I live on a different planet than these people

It's been said before on one of the many past threads, but if there is a legitimate reason to look at this stuff beyond wanting to scare yourself (or feel better about yourself), it's that through cartoons you can get a really quick, shorthand glimpse into this alternate universe. No long essays to read, no links to click on, but the simple stipulation "this is intended to be funny" makes you start to realize all the kinds of crap that has to be ASSUMED AS TRUE for the rest to hang together. And indeed..it's a different planet.

People who voted for the re-election of George W. Bush with great enthusiasm, demanding to know how Obama could let Benghazi happen.

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"Biggest story since Watergate"

They're desperate for a smoking gun in the right-wing blogosphere aren't they? It's not enough to hate Obama's policies - he has to be guilty of corruption, impeached, imprisoned. But they keep coming up with nothing. It's like the Clinton years before Lewinsky, only more intense.

DRAWING A SPEECH BUBBLE COMING OUT OF A BUILDING DOES NOT MAKE YOU GARRY TRUDEAU YOU STUPID TWAT

(okay, deep breaths)

That's a building? I thought it was abandoned Donkey Kong.

HALF-BILLION

I do appreciate that he tried ("tried") to render the actual specific NYT building, rather than like a generic skyscraper or something.

Really bugs me how many of these people not only cannot draw but just haven't made the slightest effort to improve. Day By Day has existed for a decade and still looks just as shitty. By contrast, Trudeau made huge strides in the same length of time. I guess the same gripe could apply to a lot of webcomics - something like Sluggy Freelance, which I haven't read regularly in a lonnnnng time, still basically looks like it did in 1998....but it's just a silly gag adventure/soap strip with no pretenses to be delivering THE HARD TRUTHS from a position of moral superiority so maybe I find the simple craft appealing rather than a sign of some sort of hypocrisy between talent and posturing...

A bold departure from his usual strategy of delivering Breitbartish talking points via the medium of bosomy women.

Dudes i can't believe Obama is in with Chinese government banks. Thankfully Romney has the good sense to have never ever done business with China (or Iran for that matter).

Really being a right wing cartoonist seems like the easiest job in the world. The jokes pretty much write themselves don't they?

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they really, really love this angle. Again, it's funny to realize, in Foxland, this is one of Obama's most famous remarks - I strongly doubt how much anybody else has any idea Obama said anything at all along these lines.

I remember it

It was the main laugh-line in Romney's convention speech, in fairness.

"Laugh line it RNC" doesn't really contradict "well-known in Foxland" though.

Yeah, but it suggests it's known outside as well.

i'm am kinda amazed and amused at the ones that try to blast obama's handling of sandy w/ 'SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING'

BRING EM ONNNNN!

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also, apparently the "revenge" thing got really big over those last couple days

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Poor sad white lady.

I don't understand the mitty casey one, is the strap line even a sentence.

Chuck Asay is a dick.

Betmatrho has it wrong. Obama's first name isn't derived from Hebrew (lightning) but from Arabic, meaning 'blessed'. The Hebrew cognate would be Baruch.

>>>I don't understand the mitty casey one, is the strap line even a sentence.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml

Unless you mean that extra 'is' in there, in which case no that's not really a sentence.

The extra 'is' was what I was getting at but the poem reference would still have passed me by, thanks,

Maybe, "There Is No Joy" is some dog-whistle shorthand for Obama, like did he once say something that could be misquoted and misconstrued as saying that America has no joy or something? So, "There Is No Joy" is in Mudville?

By contrast, Trudeau made huge strides in the same length of time.

by hiring assistants to do the actual drawing for him

I don't think it's any deeper than mighty Romney went to bat for conservatives and struck out.

And wtf the incompetent and biased media didn't tell me Romney is rich? Had I only known!

by hiring assistants to do the actual drawing for him

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thought this came more in the late '80s, my bad. Huh. Did I imagine this or is there a decent-looking behind-the-scenes Doonesbury book out now, talking closely with his collaborators and so on?

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zing!

More than the words I am astonished by the weirdness of the drawing in the second panel. How did her head get turned around like that? This is why you don't use Barbies as a reference.

doc c, i'm not sure abt the chronology or whatevs, and like you, wld v much like to read a behind-the-scenes bk abt doonesbury - was just trying to suggest that it's not entirely fair to compare these talentless goons w/ trudeau if only because the poor saps obv can't afford to 'outsource' their work

how about http://www.amazon.com/Doonesbury-G-B-Trudeau-Brian-Walker/dp/0300154275

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this is like those garfield sans garfield strips. People go to the trash, walk away, the trash is there, Obama signs are thrown in the trash. ?_?

xxxpost No, I'll totally concede that. Just, I mean, practice usually makes some kind of difference in this stuff. Thinking also of like, the PVP or Penny Arcade artists, who have gone through a ton of experimentation and tweaking in their style over the same span of time. Actually think both got kind of over-stylized after a certain point but you at least get the sense of people trying hard to improve their techniques. Also speaking as a guy who used to draw a lot of comics purely as a hobby, fell out of it years ago but part of the satisfaction really was looking back over a few years of work and being like, shit, I used to draw like that? Not that I ever necessarily got even as "good" as DBD guy but, y'know.

and that's exactly the Doonesbury book I was thinking of! Will keep my eye out for a super-cheapo copy.

what exactly does "celebrity in chief" mean?

Wow, had no idea that Trudeau had collaborators. Kind of mindblown at the moment. I mean, I know that a bunch cartoonists have them -- does Mort Walker even read Beetle Bailey anymore? -- but assumed Trudeau was a one-man show.

According to Wiki: Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.

I think there have been other assistants, too, and I wonder how 'complete' Trudeau's pencils are

By and large, most American newspaper strip artists have had assistants - producing a daily comic strip is sheer hard work! Schulz is the most famous exception to this

I don't think Scott Adams gets any help. Then again Dilbert doesn't seem awfully hard to make!

Watterson was proudly assistant-free, and took a thinly-veiled dig at Walker, something like "the assistants do all the work, and the person taking the credit is on the golf course."

Scott Adams started getting help for a while when he developed a weird nerve condition in his hand

Berke Breathed presumably assisted by mountains of coke

Breathed used to send his boards via air to the publishing company because he would work so close to deadline and miss the mailing date.

And sometimes, he'd even finish them up on the plane.

Scott Adams started getting help for a while when he developed a weird nerve condition in his hand

hmph, didn't know about this

was about to mention Bill Watterson too, especially since his strip was arguably the one with the most attention to detail (and the best writing by far)

Calvin and Hobbes unquestionably the greatest latter-day newspaper comic

but that's a different thread

Newspaper strips would be a cool ballot poll someday.

maybe I'll run it after I get around to posting the rest of the animation results.

actually maybe someone else should run it

I would be down if it happened over Christmas break or something. Totally into it but don't want to commit and then have it enter the rotation right as school/life is getting crazy, have made this mistake before.

Newspaper strips would be a cool ballot poll someday.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

needs a long listing, disdain for the just utterly pointless staples is gonna be the highpoint

I think it'd definitely have to have a "worst" ballot also. Would love to find out once and for all if people hate Family Circus more than they hate Cathy, or whatever.

i love comics already sorta did it (it was general comics all around but i remember little nemo and calvin and hobbes and peanuts and popeye definitely placing so strips were incorporated) but that was years ago and non-newspaper strip specific so could be done again

getting my carol day vote in early:

http://kihm2.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/carol-day.jpg?w=500

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Obama-ville

Can somebody do the Heimlich on me real quick? I'm choking on the irony here.

LOL damn I wish I owned a classic Airstream, those things are worth a bundle! People living in Obama-villes must not be so bad off...

I just looked and even the smallest models go for around $15k...

Nothing's changed.....except the socialist hellscape!

i like that you could replace "obama-ville" with "republican-town" and the point would be just as effective

haha...poor white people in trailer parks...the true heart of obamaville

I think it's supposed to be like a "Hooverville" or something but under Obama unemployment has gone down and foreclosure rates have been on the decrease recently as well, so... Right-wing alternative reality strikes again!

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awww, those poor guys

wait. wasn't solyndra a domestic energy producer?

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I wish every slot machine had EAT THE RICH printed on it

I know the ineptitude is the point, but I really like how this cartoon makes no sense whatsoever.

yeah, this guy is pretty good
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lol waht

c'mon guy, really? i mean really? i mean you drew this and colored it in and everything?
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adjusted the gradient on the book there and everything

Apparently Dems were ramming Obamacare (AKA MOAR DEBT!!!!) down some basement dweller's throat, but the noble elephant puts a +12 MAG DEF football helmet on to repel it.

It's a formalist punchline: Breitbart actually loses floating bits of sweat when translated to a cartoon.

It's like Nancy.

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oh god, not...ILLINOIS!!

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not sure if this is batshit or not, honestly can't tell what we're supposed to get out of it actually

There's a bit of xenophobia buried beneath a murky half-assed premise, but I really can't be bothered to be offended.

illinois, cali, greece all undergoing debt crises, implication is obama govt will lead to same for usa. second is implying that gop is undergoing self autopsy, clumsily, something something hispanics. neither esp batshit tbh, certainly not for the standards set by this field.

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xp umm isn't that last one the Republican party attempting to do an autopsy on itself? not batshit/xenophobic imo

oh lol wait it's not actually a spanish language cartoonist. ok wtf

Yeah, so...they're doing an 'autopsy' on the party to figure out what went wrong, okay...and it has something to do with the Hispanic vote.. except...performing an autopsy when you're still alive is suicide, so they're stupid? So it's stupid to figure out the party by checking in with the Hispanic vote? Or is it, if the Republicans "spoke Spanish" better, they wouldn't have made this obvious elementary mistake of performing the autopsy on yourself while still alive?

I read the cartoon as an implicit disapproval of the GOP courting/pandering to the latino/minority/whatever vote in light of the election.

Though you could read it as whatever; christ what a shitty artoonist.

the meaning is clear. the party is dead because it was 100% Hispanic. now that it needs to perform an autopsy on itself, it must use a how-to book in Spanish, because that is the only kind of how-to book the now-dead party can read. I don't see what's so hard about thi

The elephant is Rove. The book is Megyn Kelly. The saw is Julian Castro.

That California cartoon is hilarious. We're Greece right now, but watch out cuz a Dem Supermajority will make everything even worse.

Something Awful thread still going strong

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3460628

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people always say this, but, poll

cosplay in a walk, obv

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meanwhile: those poor, poor rich people:

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If an editorial cartoonist ever again draws the deficit as a big hungry monster (or dragon or King Kong), he should have his hand cut off.

I am in favor of the deficit. We're all Keynesians now. Specifically, we all keep track of the boys we fuck in a secret journal.

I think the day you make a cartoon sympathizing with "The Rich" is the day you have sold your soul to the devil.

or the rich

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(not a BSRWC)

The toons in this thread are a hoot.

bunch of x'sp: 5% Obamacare surcharge at Denny's? Yeah, I have no problem with that at all.

I like it too because it implies that women in general have taken the goth diet of speed + Denny's and subbed the dexadrine for beyaz. FOR FREE.

I will take the rueben and milkshake and the nuvaring PLEASE

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batshit really only in all the small, strange details that make me wonder what the conservative stereotype of washington might be - - - they hang up frames containing blank white canvases? they have frozen, manic toothy grins? swarm-of-bees wallpaper? everybody there has a different-sized head? what?

annnnnd Day By Day has thrown its lot in with the secessionists!

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/111812.jpg

At least, I think that's what's going on there. It's not always easy to tell.

oh, and i checked in with Mallard Fillmore, but apparently Tinsley is dealing with the post-election blues by running an ongoing story about how the duck is having trouble getting his computer back from the Geek Squad....

i can't believe day to day dude gets paid to do anything. even deliver newspapers.

batshit really only in all the small, strange details that make me wonder what the conservative stereotype of washington might be - - - they hang up frames containing blank white canvases? they have frozen, manic toothy grins? swarm-of-bees wallpaper? everybody there has a different-sized head? what?

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, November 18, 2012 10:58 PM Bookmark

all true

not touching the abundance of Pillar of Defense cartoons because they just depress me too much but meanwhile, amazingly, the doubling-down on benghazi continues and continues:

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oh, and god told Chuck Asay that he hates social safety nets:

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God loves capitalism most of all.

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The angel deserves it for the font alone

Same cartoon would work exactly the same if you swapped in two Hasidic jews for the two angry turbanned guys; just a different group to hate on.

actually heard once there are conflicts outside the mideast too.

Or Darwin, Madeline Murray O'Hare.

So is that a drone on the left or something?

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not that batshit but really i think this theme encapsulates how distorted the Republican talking-point world-picture looks from where I'm sitting. WTF are they even talking about here? What is it that Republicans imagine they're oh-so-generously putting on the table?

Also have seen at least two cartoons mysterious casting Obama as Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons. So one of those has to be just an obvious shameless rip-off, right? How do you look yourself in the mirror doing that?

I choose to interpret the first one as the republican party desperately grasping for the real world, symbolized by Obama, yet failing, and tumbling down into the darkness. It's probably not meant that way.

If those elephants weren't all so damned FAT

The one on the right seems dumbfounded that the asses just brough the fruit cup. How stupid is he? Why would I vote for someone that stupid and sadface?

What is it that Republicans imagine they're oh-so-generously putting on the table?

the continued existence of the modern american state

not touching the abundance of Pillar of Defense cartoons because they just depress me too much but meanwhile, amazingly, the doubling-down on benghazi continues and continues

smh - poor vilerat, fodder for these retards

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Seriously squinting both my eyes and my brain to parse this out. That monolithic iMarket and its Hal 9000 eyeball look pretty sinister to me - but the other one has BUREAUCRACY and BIG GOVERNMENT written right on it. But why are we campaigning to "FREE MARLEY"? One too many inspirational Facebook posts?

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LIBERAL PROFESSOR, oddly missing his hippie beard and stink lines, but OTOH he seems to have decided to go to this exam in full graduation regalia so who knows what he looks like most days.

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7Bc4ced9f8-e725-48d2-b9df-bd0ce1cae1fd%7D.gif

Wait - - seriously? Watergate!??! (Also, you misspelled "Bizarro.")

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there's been about a million "fiscal cliff with Greece at the bottom" strips, and more than a few Christmas-themed ones (Obama as Grinch looking down at us, etc) but leave it Asay to propose a world where Santa Claus is real, but his reindeer can't fly

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not that batshit, i just love TAXPAYER'S expression upon receiving his big government handjob

LOL that is awesome

obama claus is a fraud, obv. pretty excited about the gov't goodies, i bet that giant candy cane is for me.

government handjob

dying

amazing

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I was worried by the Dark Knight Rises poster, dead cops and "hos," NWA cap, but what really should have alarmed me, in hindsight, was that little Billy was collecting the skulls of children on his nightstand.

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Yes, they're EXACTLY the same...

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THE SAME

Little Billy does like football and baseball, and has patriotic sheets, so there is hope for him.

prohibition kind of worked. people drank a truly grotesque amount pre-prohibition, most people abided by the law during it, and drank way less after, even now.

Billy should show his mom the Firetruck and Paramedic missions.

Gotta say I do appreciate the effort put into things like accurately drawing the back of a computer monitor.

goole, that's interesting - is there a book or anything that discusses this? I've always sort of bought the myth that it made no difference/impact beyond "turning ordinary people into criminals" and providing a foundation for organized crime, etc. But what you say makes a ton of sense.

like, for example even in that cartoon, the bar only has one customer.

DC: haha i'm half-remembering the ken burns doc tbh

I know that a lot of business associations were in favor of prohibition because workers had a tendency to show up drunk, which is anecdotal support for the truly grotesque amount of drinking people did. Also the temperance movement was largely women because of the link between drinking and domestic violence, plus men being too drunk to work and financially support their families.

(Learned that at a lecture on prohibition at the Chicago History Museum, so I can't link to anything.)

36,000 dead cops is pretty good. his mom should get the hell out of his room and let him play.

Why would that kid have a picture of Tommy Lasorda on his shelf?

Billy also seems to have T-Rex arms, and is biting his mother's arm.

1900s gin seems like the crack cocaine of that era..

It's kind of fascinating seeing the libertarian argument being made about drugs and guns from the Right. It's simplistic, of course, 'cause encouraging simplisitc black or white versions of liquor or gun policy are fools' errands, but it's still interesting.

1900s gin seems like the crack cocaine of that era..

I think you mean the early 18th Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze

Although I guess the Gin Palaces count, too.

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HERE we go, this is the kind of thing i was expecting to see. fuck you, asay

The Gibson Guitar raid was his go-to example? That's some sad-ass barrel-scraping.

Also, fuck you, Asay.

seriously, it really approaches the Onion guy for stretched, bizarre counterexample.

His Obama is so lame too, he looks like a somewhat mellow Guy Smiley.

Obama on his way to hang out w Mr. Natural

kind of the batman theory of villainy there

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weirdly inept. What was redacted from Santa's speech? Did Little Billy have something to say in response? What don't they want you to know??

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appears to have been desperately rewritten at the last minute when someone realized they were writing the Communist Manifesto in dough-headed winter-clad children form.

http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/21/25149_thumb.gif

yeah, all those things are probably equally important. guns, on the other hand, have no roots whatsoever and are simply a given

the gun itself is the violence it symbolises, so fits nicely in the top-left category

the others are all pretty otm, apart from the rightmost two, which are yer typical rightwing canards, and 'decaying morality', which is again bullshit considering where 'morality' lay a few decades back

uneasy abt 'dissolution of the family' too as this lends itself to bigotry. but given a flexible definition of what 'family' is, everyone's gotta have one right, speshly the young

wrong thread for sensible weighed-up discussion mebbe

Pop Culture

shit like 'decaying morality' will forever be too stupid to be given a moment's consideration, certain social structures and mores could 'collapse' a thousand fold & still not necessarily 'compete' with public executions/racism at the dinnertable/marital oppression of women &c. it's the laziest thinking. p sure you can apply this dazzling unpacking technique to the others, too.

Unearned Fame <- there's a lot of rightwing bullshit contained in this one little phrase

yeah so the three i said were bs. now what about the others, get to it folks

'desensitization' sounds nefarious inna puritanical way but i'm not sure it doesn't indirectly or even inadvertently hit on something

A real conservative WORKS to earn his fame, lazy liberals just want someone to give it to them, amiright?

tbf Karmin may be partly to blame

http://www.naturalnews.com/cartoons/Dont-Touch-My-Junk_600.jpg

A little rough around the edges, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a rightwing cartoon.

I agree with the general sentiment of the cartoon, if not the demonization of individual TSA employees (I have never seen a TSA employee enjoy hefting my boob with the back of her hand to check whether it was my underwire or something more nefarious* setting off the metal detector). Or the implicit homophobia.

*there is nothing more nefarious than an underwire bra.

There are the rogue agents who enjoy sifting through dildoes.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kashmirhill/files/2011/10/TSA-get-your-freak-on-note-300x224.jpg

(And no, spellcheck, I did not mean to spell "diodes," thanks for looking out for me.)

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca010213dBP20130102104542.jpg

you gotta be fuckin kidding me

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sbr122812dAPR20121228044514.jpg

presumably he is not there to carry out the aforementioned WAR ON CHILDREN

Also, Day By Day has acquired a Former Communist Shame Puppet:

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/122812.jpg

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/123012.jpg

In Soviet Russia, clumsy vector graphics badly stylizes YOU!

i think the schwarzkopf comic's the artist's attempt at irony, with norm being happily greeted by angels of death who resemble flying children

or maybe those are the children whose deaths he caused, and they're so happy he liberated them from the suffering of mortal existence

xxp

until we can make this a peace-loving society we progressives have to protect ourselves from those who oppose us, those...what's the word?

dialogue that trips off the tongue!

the military one is vintage batshit.

As usual Asay completely misses the point

if we were to correctly apply the truth to his illustration there, the US would be a 2,000lb sumo wrestler with more trainers than opposing fighters.

Current aircraft carriers by country:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers-2012.gif

That's not even trying to be funny.

There's going to be a lot of right wings there. DOYOUSEE?

Why would you own a gun if you think 'guns must be confiscated'?

Yeah, she's obviously meant to be a "hypocritical progressive", but that's so much of a straw man that it may actually be a giant wicker man about to be set afire.

Newspaper scandalously publishing a link to her Facebook profile, happened alot in communist Russia.

Is latest trend. Is wery exciting.

Exposing Elmer Fudd to the eyes of the world is not a noble mission, imo.

Article is thing we do not have in Hhrussia.

Convinced Day by Day is written by a chatbot connected only to the conservative blogoshpere.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca011113dBP20130108114542.jpg

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/lb0110cd20130110030934.jpg

seriously fuck these people

― Mr. Que, Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

every other BSRWC, btw, is running variants on something about Al Gore cutting a deal with Al-Jazeera, apparently the nation's major headline issue in conservaland

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10631220130109104800.jpg

er

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10631220130109104800.jpg

annnnnd by the way, i think i smell the future lazy cartoonist liberal shorthand, say goodbye to peace signs and stink lines:

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/lb0109cd20130107091923.jpg

do well-off low-information voters wear hats branded by political campaigns though

oh, they will be wearing obama-logo hats for the next forty years

haha, "now it's" paedophilia, BUT WAIT! this innocent pasttime beloved of liberals could soon lead to ... beastality!! c'mon guys paedophilia is way worse than beastiality.

Yeah, abusing kids is totally the beginning of a slippery slope.

lol at the hungover horse

Drunk Horse's "Adult Situations" playing on their stereo no doubt.

:D

Chuck Asay is secretly PETA

the grim reaper totally plays cup-and-ball with the skull trophy when nobody's around

Jokes on the liberals. That's 333,964 we can't have sex with.

Ha ha!

not sure if this has been linked itt yet but it is relevant

http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/

that is fantastic.

http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/38634910173/credit-to-sa-forum-member-melaneus

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/Foden20130115-Newsflu20130115025930.jpg

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gv011213dAPR20130112034511.jpg

took me a while to interpret this, thinking this was a cop and there was some complex statement being made about how the government is robbing cops of the power to fight back with all this non-lethal defensive stuff...but actually it's about everyday citizens "needing" all this gear to protect them from all the bullets flying around? which sounds like a good argument for gun control but i don't think it is.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/bg011413dAPR20130114094514.jpg

this feels like it's going for a really old-school political cartoonist vibe, with the stiff presentation and damning quote

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/Foden20130112-Obama%20177420130111044319.jpg

...he would have been a much more competent policy-setter for England than mad King George?

yeah, king hussein obama comes off pretty good there imo

lmao is his servant Icelandic?
fucking Sigur ros coming 4 ur gunz, america

Guns do make the best shields, it's true.

Not really a "right-wing political cartoon," but close enough - this appeared in the Wall Street Journal in an article on tax changes in the "fiscal cliff" bill:

http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-15-at-11.58.52-AM.png

As this blogger points out, Yes, in that comic, every single one of those families makes a six figure income, the lowest being $180 thousand, and yet because of the new tax hikes imposed by Obama, they all appear as though he ran over the family dog.

The median household income in the U.S. between 2007-2011 was $52,762, but the American people are all supposed to shed tears for those that make between three to twelve times as much?

Aw they look so sad.

All those taxes going up to support the black people in the top-right, WSJ knows what's up.

It's not easy being a single parent of two children with only $260,000 coming in - and that's before taxes! Those goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers.

lmfao bottom right fam is like %1ers as rendered by dorothrea lange
mother, father, how will we travail Williams sonoma now?
son, we're not going to Williams Sonoma anymore
*porsche cayenne pulls up to kohl's*
*mother chokes back sobs as her children wail in agony*

thanks wsj for helping me to better understand from what vantage point some people view the world

top left single mom, now having to cut back on live-in nanny expenses, cheese of the month clubs, and renting instead of buying porn

also wtf all these rich ppl and they can't afford decent hair, ppl who have not learned how to live imo, they all lookalike theyve been playing capture the flag for nine days and then got dressed for church dirctory portraits

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/images/478450a-i1.0.jpg

Also please note that the only people in the graphic not getting a tax increase are black. WSJ really knows their target audience.

median household income for a single parent is $16,500 FYI

wonder what median household income for a single parent with a WSJ sub is tho

Lower than it should be thanks to Obama

the whole objective of that graphic is to portray the injustice and gross indignity of increasing marginal tax rates

of course you can only illustrate that injury by making up imaginary households that are all have incomes affected by marginal tax rate increases

$180k investment income, yes, that sounds reasonable

hey single person making almost a quarter mil per annum, wow that $3k tax increase is gonna hit you really hard huh

Is there any job outside the financial sector where you make a quarter mil a year?

Offensive lineman

LOOGY

I looked up the salary of a doctor I did some work for. His salary at the teaching hospital alone was $300k.

i know a lot of first year big law associates working in larger markets who start out at 180k. i imagine after a few years they're doing a quarter mil pretty easily?

Medical school costs alot tho.

it's not that people don't make it, it's that only very few people make it

xp Yeah, five year associates at big law firms make that much or more.

Big law firms = financial sector.

Relevant to big law and tax hikes and the vantage point from which some people view the world: http://lifeinbiglaw.tumblr.com/post/40676603278/seeing-your-paycheck-after-the-payroll-tax-hike

(not a batshit rightwing cartoon, though.)

Have we mentioned this one yet?

'I take random Day by Day strips and replace the dialogue with stuff from Jerkcity comics.'

http://muircity.tumblr.com/

http://muircity.tumblr.com/image/38186964636

It's oddly comforting to be reminded Jerkcity is still a thing that exists.

<img src=http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c35acd1f3ed8b04830eb6983ee6f2e6/tumblr_mgzu8dFueZ1qbypg1o1_500.gif>;

Anyone who's got the day off today is apparently a gummint employee. Huzzah!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c35acd1f3ed8b04830eb6983ee6f2e6/tumblr_mgzu8dFueZ1qbypg1o1_500.gif

Hah that is the lamest.

TBH it is good to be a federal employee, but all the one's I know aren't nearly that smug.

This is a grown man, earning a living by COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING HAPPY ABOUT HAVING A DAY OFF WORK. His soul must be trapped forever in some weird layer of Hell.

they're called assholes.

You think bankers and investors, the heartbeat of our fragile democracy, got to take a day off?

Well yes they did, those fuckers.

it's GOOD to be a garbageman

If someone were to inform this idiot that all the US stock exchanges, the very engine of capitalism, were closed today, he'd probably suffer a fatal stroke on the spot.

For whatever reason I've been peaking at Mallard Fillmore this week. Is Bruce Tinsley always on fire like this?

http://i.imgur.com/WRFl3kg.png

I can't even comprehend what's happening with this horribly formed "joke"

it's not aesthetically cool to defend the second amendment.

What is cool apparently is making fun of eating disorders!

purge daley is a pretty cute name

american royalty

hardcore band names

It's so true! Hollywood hates guns.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/bg012513dAPR20130125094518.jpg

nice font, kid

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca012413dBP20130122114535.jpg

think this is kind of a perfect window into the mentality at this point - basically pick any words Obama says and insert any other unrelated words you like

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10664820130123025000.jpg

still going with this shit

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10663320130122102500.jpg

"Wow!"

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca012213dBP20130122114542.jpg

oh FUCK you

Missing only the aborted little sister and MOM'S SPECIAL FEMINIST FRIEND.

disappointed there's no hippie with stink lines, but skull rising from the smoke is a nice touch

RIP Blue collar jobs.

Could be worse, at least Mom is still wearing a skirt tho

The key element is the mom accessories. Maybe if women stopped working, daddy would stay home and welfare would end.

She's not working, she's posting Bob Marley image macros to Facebook all day.

xp it's a slice of pizza, she hasn't noticed it's stuck to her because slovenliness

"I miss the days when Daddy used to whack me and Mommy with the wrench so hard we'd fly up in the air"

tbf chuck asay's mom fucked a bunch of guys named sam

michelle obama is supposed to be a ramone in that glenn mccoy comic, right

the one about the kids hating both guns and sprouts is pretty weird. like i feel like the point at which its small logical oversight dawned on its creator before being powered through should have been more of a red light.

ramones visual otm

Also, the first lady wants kids to eat sprouts which is fascism so I'm even more confused.

Asay is turning into Kelly, or is it the other way round?
http://www.theonion.com/video/behind-the-pen-how-marriage-works,28173/

catching up with all these but this one pisses me off so much:

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gv110212dAPR20121102044514.jpg

because with this logic the aborted angel babies would either grow up in heaven or they'd be floating fetuses with wings, but it looks like the cartoon is literally saying "these poor babies are stuck as babies forever"

is it over-dramatic of me to say that this is a huge problem in the abortion debate, the fact that aborted angel fetuses are always presented as cherubic babies or even toddlers, that these artists seem to think that abortion is legal until two years after the baby is born

It's like how articles on abortion - neutral ones! - are illustrated with stock photos of pregnant women (well just their torsos lest women seeking abortion have an identity) who are well into their third trimesters. Bunch of fucking dummies.

:O

http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/62/2013/01/28/126251_600.jpg

That's special even by this threads standards

guns and healthcare, conservative america's two great traditions

xp to myself - look, even pro-choice orgs do that total bullshit with very pregnant torsos illustrating articles about abortion: http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2013/01/29/wyoming-house-rejects-heartbeat-bill/

Never thought about this - thanks for pointing it out.

black :o

black :@)

black B-)

MyGun nut cousin linked to some conservative article three other day that mentioned something about black guns, as if thats what these gun grabbers head a problem with.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca012213dBP20130122114542.jpg

On the plus side, children's artwork has improved drastically.

already posted upthread, much lols ensued

http://www.shootersforum.com/ex-military-rifles-cartridges/51658-what-black-guns.html
this does not clear shit up

i like that Asay one because of mom's pepperoni pizza skirt

uncle sam is a freeloading boozer who's shacking up with the taxpayer's mom, teaches the taxpayer how to smoke, and gets angry when the the taxpayer practices piano

http://i.imgur.com/epyDMz2.jpg

I'm sure this was meant to imply that the military has been ruined, but it's actually pretty great!

wonder if the interracial gay couple is another dogwhistle

Of course.

Two big themes in Mallard Fillmore this week: Head Start is an abject if not treasonous failure, and OMG MICHELLE OBAMA'S BANGS.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10711920130212043000.jpg

in this comic: devout pro-catholic cartoonist depicts pope as petty, scowling grump who makes weighty decisions based on shallow, childish impulses

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/payn_c10709720130212120100.jpg

still peddling this crap! Great thing is how this cartoon looks like it was custom-designed to be easy to update for the next time it gets trotted out...just have to replace a couple of words on the sign and then it's margarita time!

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca020613dBP20130205104529.jpg

asay, keeping it tasteful

gotta say though, paging through recent townhall.com posts is kind of weirdly heartening: everybody is going after Obama the drone policy memo. Really didn't expect that from this crowd, even with the knee-jerk anti-O sentiment.

haha the most anti-catholic president ever

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10711920130212043000.jpghttp://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

xxxpost
So apparently every citizen being armed doesn't help.

fuck that guns in schools cartoon, that's so actively offensive

Me aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-nd Mrs Jones, Mrs Jones Mrs Jones...

Looks like that affair didn't work out so good.

Britisher special day in Rightwing cartoons: Here's 'Mac' from the Daily Mail.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/13/article-0-178A45BD000005DC-829_964x656.jpg

Caption: '... so I said, "If you can smuggle horse into the UK, you can smuggle us in." "Okay," he said, "Twenty smackers."'

wow, so stupid it makes my brain hurt

xxxp If only they had to use "climate change" instead of "global warming" these oh-ho-but-its-snowing cartoons would be toast.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171305/my-son-age-25-has-never-been-around-cooler-average-month

the "it's snowing lol there's no global warming" thing makes me want to slam my head repeatedly on my desk.

obviously a lot of people intuitively understand that one in the history of the universe has ever suggested that an increase in average global temperature, whether 1 degree F or 5 or 12, would mean that it would not snow ever again. no one except for everyone's idiotic uncle, i guess.

but a lot of people don't realize that warmer temperatures, someone intuitively, create larger snow storms. From Kevin Trenberth, former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research:

Ingredients for a big snow storm include temperatures just below freezing. In the past temperatures at this time of year would have been a lot below freezing but the ability to hold moisture in the atmosphere goes down by 7% per degree C (4% per deg F), and so in the past we would have had a snow storm but not these amounts.

i used intuitively twice there, both incorrectly. first shouldn't have been there, second should have been counter-intuitively.

it's possible that my repeated slamming of my head on my desk may be impacting my braaaaaaaaainz

Yes, getting people to understand that climate change is contributing to more snow here in Cleveland because Lake Erie never froze over, therefore we get lake effect snow all the time now and well into April, is a fool's errand.

Jon Stewart's best line was "there's no Global Warming because its cold, where I am, now."

"A dingo ate my baby, therefore a dingo will eat everyone's baby."

is 'warmists' a common epithet internationally? a nutbar murdoch-employed blogger here uses that term compulsively.

yes, it is.

i'm trying to think of analogues to past derogatory terms for theories or people that were actually totally correct. of course, when scientists starting warning everyone that cigarettes caused cancer, there was a bunch of pushback from the cigarette industry (interesting, you can actually draw a direct line between the people involved in that effort and the kind of people who call others 'warmists' today) - did they have a term for the people that were trying to prevent people from dying, too?

Health nuts.

I get a kick out this trend of adding the -ist suffix to words to make them derogatory. It's on the level of calling people blowjobs, which is funny.

blowjobist.

analyst.

analrapist

Scientist.

Funnyist.

marriage equalist

that can't be made to sound derogatory, I suck at this

I'm sure somebody would find that derogatory. (cf the time some drunk racist piece of shit in a bar called me a "Mexican lover" because I was defending immigration. Totally insulting to him. Not insulting to me.)

Texas is a creepy stalker but its hot because California is a wimpy loser:

http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/cartoons/25480_image.gif

Aborted fetuses are all toddler-aged angels who are very opinionated:

http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/cartoon_500/cartoons/roevwadesouls.gif

"It's horrible here up in heaven!"

those unbaptized zygotes should be hanging out in Limbo tbh

Those cherubs are all lined up for cake and they know it.

Yeah, I've heard it best expressed elsewhere that if God ensouls fertilized eggs, then Heaven is filled with human caviar.

*reaches for flatbread*

lol^

say what you like about Gary Varvel, he draws a cracking Chinese baby

today i learned that 'businesses' is a subjugated woman without free will

also i hope that "gary varvel" guy did a companion cartoon for all the eggs on toast he's ever eaten

Is the idea that relocating to Texas is tempting for Cali based businesses because of lower taxes or something? Because the woman (BUSINESSES) does not actually look very enthusiastic at all. Or is it that of California were a real man, he'd clean Texas's clock for sleazing on his woman for 5 blocks?

Also, isn't 'California' in right wing cartoons supposed to be allegorically represented by a sandal wearing headbanded hippy?

don't forget the stinklines

the woman (BUSINESSES) does not actually look very enthusiastic at all.

she's not allowed to be enthusiastic, she's supposed to be in the kitchen

CALIF. let BUSINESSES out for a break because CALIF. is secretly a sandal wearing headbanded hippy with stinklines

So if California is represented in this cartoon by Jerry Brown, is that Rick Perry driving around town with a big cowboy hat and passenger door open?

i think so

kinda hilarious guy thinks driving alongside women walking down the street is a common and appropriate method of picking up women. may have revealed more about his dating habits so to speak than he intended to there.

bet he enjoyed drawing her the business.

Shouldn't California be walking on the other side of Businesses?

California has no manners.

re: the california one it is by a san diego cartoonist so

San Diego, the San Diego of California.

I'm just glad California is dating Business instead of Hollyweird and isn't wearing the FAILED STATE sash.

http://media.cagle.com/62/2013/03/01/128006_600.jpg

o_O

I'm going to need a complete explanation of that one.

This is the story:

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/Bob_Woodward_Keeps_Digging

Ah, okay. The cartoon is bullshit! But now I know what kind.

Thanks!

I like that the two reporters on the right are a beatnik potato and Stephen King.

can someone please photoshop so that we just get the three reporters humming "barack. hussein. obama." it's very cute.

sung to the tune of
trans. europe. express.

TIME
SPACE
O-BA-MA

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/holb_c10772320130311120100.jpg

i'm confused, wasn't showing mercy towards darth vader kind of supposed to be a good thing when luke did it?

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz031113dAPR20130308074527.jpg

yes, a likely scenario

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sk030813dAPR20130308064522.jpg

what a weird cartoon.

Also on the radar: I guess Obama cut down on school tours of the White House or something? Apparently this is the biggest news in the country because all the cartoonists are working it but none of them are very interesting or funny.

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/holb_c10763220130306120100.jpg

not BSRW but still alarming: are our nation's cartoonists all stranded in some kind of bunker or fallout shelter, cut off from timely pop-cultural references? I mean...is this really the best they could come up with?

there's a twins sequel in the works iirc

still isn't funny

And Rodman visited Un in NK last week.

would've loved that cartoon so much if it had worked in a tango and cash reference instead

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpxiu9GOte1qa934fo1_500.png

haha

pretty sure daily show did a tango/cash ref for that event

Twins sequel also to feature Eddie Murphy iirc - right wing cartoonists more plugged in than all y'all.

Agree that the sequestration one is puzzling - I thought all of the argument was on the causes rather than the effects of the sequester?

http://i.imgur.com/Hlv5zFg.jpg

NOW WE ARE FREE TO ABORT OUR CHILDREN AND SMOKE OUR POT!
NOW WE ARE FREE TO ABORT OUR CHILDREN AND SMOKE OUR POT!
NOW WE ARE FREE TO ABORT OUR CHILDREN AND SMOKE OUR POT!
NOW WE ARE FREE TO ABORT OUR CHILDREN AND SMOKE OUR POT!

HEY! COOL, MAN!

lol isnt that the onion guy?

HEY, MAN! IS THAT ABORTION ROCK?

HEY MAN:

HEY, MAN:

G.O.A.T.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Hey_Man.jpg/220px-Hey_Man.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OJJpNOgHjAU/Sc5ZZ5vK0iI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/EJpEH5NVJSc/s400/Hey+man...+smell+my+finger.jpg

New majority leader of Colorado state senate

why are the donkeys

never mind

can't stand around here while my children are waiting to be aborted

hmmm, seriously thinking about hitting up a screening of tango & cash in w'burg on friday, on balls's recommendation

NOW WE ARE FREE TO ABORT OUR CHILDREN AND SMOKE OUR POT!

Open the blood gates, hit the bong!

Blood gates as a euphemism for the vadge, I like it.

It's an Asay catchphrase:

http://i47.tinypic.com/afdpah.gif

That's the next Dredd film, right?

LIFE

OPEN THE BLOOD GATES!

open the blood gates

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5czzv8YEU1rxsg02o1_500.gif

when the 9 justices of the apocalypse roll in, you know the party's about to start.

don't bogart the abortions, colorado

blood gate diamonds

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/kn032313dAPR20130322104544.jpg

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz032213dAPR20130322124518.jpg

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/holb_c10809720130326120100.jpg

what the fuck?

well look if it's gonna make them that happy...

His balls have legs, how could he not be happy?

"this is great jerry, but why is the palestinian dressed in people clothes?"

OIL GLUTTEN

Wait, is a rightwing cartoonist really complaining about cuts to federal agencies?

With OBL gone, I nominate the four-legged Palestinian as our new go-to panel.

^^^^^

Thirdleggeded

WHEEEEE

Where's the slew of topical global warming cartoons to go with the late winter storm?

America wants Glutten-free oil.

Loving the idea that China is a big, glutten-ous gas sucker and Uncle Sam has a perfectly modest, small-sized gas can.

Also China is a baby, US all growed up.

i imagine uncle sam saying there "errr uhhh excuse me mr. uhhh china sir, can i please have some gasoline?" china: "NO!" uncle sam: "ok, i'll be on my way, then...". since when did america become such pussies?!

THANKS OBAMA etc

Ha, they can't even spell glutton in a cartoon!

glutten is the least stupid part of that cartoon

where's our gay marriage cartoon?

http://thekoalition.com/images/2012/10/monopoly.jpg

WHY GAS PRICES AREN'T FALLING

i can't find an anti-gay marriage cartoon ... if that's not a bellwether i don't know what is

gay marriages for everyone!

or should that be "gay marriages for all!"? I just don't know now it's Adam & Steve not Adam & Eve

WHEEEEEEE

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gv032113dAPR20130321034531.jpghttp://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/wheeeeeeee_zpsf098cc28.jpg

lol

yeah WHEEEEE is gonna be instalolz for awhile i think

haaa

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/wheeeeeeee_zpsf098cc28.jpghttp://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

now picturing: four-handed osama, a wheel of thumbs-ups circling his face and WHEEEEEE! rising above

http://i.imgur.com/S6Odd.jpg

How does "enemy of my enemy is my friend" make sense as a caption for that

subtlety apparently also unamerican

al jazeera is glenn beck's "enemy", so is al gore, naturally that's the only reason he could possibly deal with them

so who is the enemy of glenn beck's enemy in this analogy.

what

enemy1/my friend = al jazeera
my enemy = beck

the enemy of glenn beck's enemy... was glenn beck all along

Like ... Al Gore decided to align himself with Al Jazeera simply because they perceive Glenn Beck to be their enemy? I don't think that's true.

I don't think the relationship between Glenn Beck and Al Jazeera figured into Gore's decisionmaking. Just a hunch.

that line isn't necessarily BRANCO's analysis of the situation, it's just too hilariously witty not to use

What is the alleged hypocrisy in the scenario.

idk it looks p obvious gore and al jazeera are in cahoots to take down beck, not sure how you can read it differently

hypocrisy is clean energy vs oil. because al jazeera. you know, ragheads, oil.

hmm.

I have a lot to learn about political cartoons.

thought gore was talking about mellow gold or something; that laid back happy guy does not look like my glennikins

lol me too

that seems more like an onion toon than a right wing job

We're all just ignoring Gore selling Current TV or whatever to Al Jazeera, yes?

I'm really excited about it.

Yeah I might get to finally watch that channel. Is Keith-O still on or did he get fired again?

you won't get to watch that channel, they're just buying it for the cable franchise iirc

Glad that t-shirt makes it clear that if there's one thing right-wingers hate, it's Big Arab Oil.

Glenn Beck looks like a really sweet guy, if a little too Pollyannaish. I must investigate his work further.

Baffled by Branco's choice to depict a dishevelled Ringo Starr as the face of Al Jazeera.

al gore / butt-head

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/d/d4/Butthead.png

a fantastic retro and british addition to the batshit canon:

http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/164199_10152722095535364_490022843_n.jpg

Great find

Like how the guy in the bottom corner is all lol @ those people condemned to eternal hellfire

Classy bit of upskirt as well.

I think they got sent to hell because of their clothes. The door policy at Shoom could be brutal.

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you always feel more badass raving in a basement ime

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i'm sorry, i just couldn't decide

they're all beautiful

That falklands one seems problematic from a pro-thatcher perspective.

Ronnie appears to have mistaken Lady Diana for MArgaret Thatcher proving that you don't get your faculties back in heaven.

are the sheep . . . wearing black armbands?

Maybe they're ankle bracelets to prevent them from emigrating to Argentina?

Shares in future oil ventures?

Why is there a bohunk statue in heaven and why isn't Denis greeting her? nancy's gonna be so pissed when she hears about this.

http://i.imgur.com/h8Fujih.gif

yes.

BRILLIANT.

nsfw version

omg

hahahahaha ay dios mio that was my first thought when i saw the original and now U HAVE MADE IT REALITY

Initial thought with the sheep one was that naughty bits were being censored.

wau

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Took me a second to realize he wasn't referring to the vice-president's flower arrangement abilities.

Trapped at the age they are best remembered for all eternity = that must be hell, right?

Sort of awesome that they think Ronald Reagan is still alive. Or are those all supposed to be dead people at a funeral?

http://images.wikia.com/x-men/images/c/c7/Martha.jpg

Maggie Thatcher trapped at the age of being a pile of gelatinous yet scratchy white globules, possibly a giant mushy brain or by a great stretch of the imagination a flower arrangement.

Seriously lost here. Does this take place in heaven? If so, why is Thatcher a corpse while everyone else is alive? Why is sinister droopy Ratzinger there, and still in pope costume? Why is Churchill so grumpy? Why is it noteworthy that Biden's not present? If this is taking place at the funeral on earth, why is nobody else present, or reacting to the presence of two to three ghostly world leaders? Baffling.

clearly Thatcher went to heaven where she was then immediately ghost-murdered by the spirits of Churchill, Reagan and one of the popes that's not in hell.

xpost

Pretty certain that's JPII, co-destroyer of Communism with Ronnie and Maggie.

.. it does appear to be the post-Scotland Union flag that we were discussing on the Thatcher thread, though?

I think that the point is that she's not going to mind that either Obama or Biden appeared at her funeral because she has all these friends in heaven - though she hasn't come to see them yet because???

Maybe she's tied to her body until cremation - presumably with burial you only appear piecemeal as the worms actually eat you. Which ties in to Doctor Casino's theory - these are the bits of her brain that have already rotted over time.

Took me a second to realize he wasn't referring to the vice-president's flower arrangement abilities.

Haha I misread it as "Bin Laden didn't make it"! I R suck at reading

see THAT would've made sense

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/483790_633118103381456_712880408_n.jpg

wow that is uncut hatred there

Bravely coming out against interracial families.

wow, that is actually making me angry

and to besmirch rockwell's name in the process!

damn non-traditional families, never teaching their children that the name under the painting is the name of the person who painted it, UGH

i actually like that cartoon because that family looks awesome

they're holding nexus 7s and nobody cared enough about traditional families to bother explaining it to them

also the kid in the painting who has just died

That family actually gets out and goes to the museum. Meanwhile, the "traditional" family is out in the burbs, each member in their own room, not paying any attention to each other.

reading the bible

Sure Norman Rockwell wd have no problems being co-opted for a racist agenda.

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii278/angelolopez/New_kids_in_the_neighborhood_Norman.jpg

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idk if this guy's conservative but he's definitely a hamfisted idiot

http://www.gocomics.com/jeffstahler/2013/04/16

http://www.gocomics.com/jeffstahler/2013/04/10

http://www.gocomics.com/jeffstahler/2013/04/06

Last one is a weeping lady liberty away from an onion cartoon

lol at this guy. how does he come up with these great ideas? "well, i was thinking about how war kills children, so i drew a picture of a child and above it i drew a bomb falling from the sky. with war written on it"

wow at rockwell one, i can't even

weird that that hateful, anti-adoption dude made a pro-ebert cartoon. ebert was an longtime chicago liberal.

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/042313.jpg

lol wuht

*sock-puppet commentary*
*star wars joke*
*vector art cleavage*

ok lol i asked if any prominent liberals had even asked that, and, welp

I think that Rockwell one is supposed to be read positively, like "look how far we've come from every family being depicted the same", but the artist is really bad at communicating his point. His comic the day after that is a pro gay-marriage one.

what's up w/ this Stahler fellow's signature is my big question tbh. it looks like writing you do when incredibly wasted and trying really hard to hold it together

If that's the case, just dying @ that guy

I think that Rockwell one is supposed to be read positively, like "look how far we've come from every family being depicted the same", but the artist is really bad at communicating his point. His comic the day after that is a pro gay-marriage one.

this is how it scanned to me too

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Stab-in-the-back_postcard.jpg/300px-Stab-in-the-back_postcard.jpg

^ totally meant to show the German jewish people standing right behind the soldiers at the front, prepared to resist an Entente invasion to the death, even without firearms.

uh

The couple in the Ebert cartoon are terrible astrologists. He's clearly flipping the bird.

I think that Rockwell one is supposed to be read positively, like "look how far we've come from every family being depicted the same", but the artist is really bad at communicating his point. His comic the day after that is a pro gay-marriage one.

I can definitely see that and I almost said something earlier. The one thing thought that doesn't 100% sell me on it being a positive cartoon is the girl asking "Who's Norman Rockwell?"

Rockwell is tied with Warhol as the most famous American painter of the last century. His name is printed on the card posted on the wall. Where the boy was asking "What's a traditional family?" because the ideas of what's traditional has changed, questioning who Norman Rockwell is slants to the whole "turning our backs on the values we used to cherish" angle.

The better question asked should not have been "What's a traditional family?" but instead "Why is that a traditional family?"

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i like this one. looks like some pretty heavy shit is going on in charlie brown's world.

tbf it's always been pretty angsty from the first strip

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/First_Peanuts_comic.png

In general, I've always enjoyed the standard "Apologies to ___" disclaimer. Cartoonists feeling sorry, possibly regretful, for parodying someone else's work.

"How I hate him!" is one of my all-time favorite punchlines to any comic strip, I think of that all the time.

feel like a good indicator of how srsly cartoonists take themselves is whether they write 'apologies to...' or 'after...' when doing something like the above

I just love how angry the kid is. He REALLY hates good ol' Charlie Brown.

Shermy was a motherfucker

I need to pick up a volume or two of the Complete Peanuts. When I flip through them at bookstores I think "oh, so the acknowledged master of the form turns out to actually be pretty brilliant, cool". This also happened to me reading Tezuka.

Still smdh that STAHLER (who upon investigation does not appear to be a batshit rightwing cartoonist) was unable to express his viewpoint any more clearly in that Rockwell cartoon.

Maybe it was the context of appearing on this thread that skewed the message. (makes you think, yada yada)

Re-looking at the original, it seems like the "Who's Norman Rockwell" is more to inform the reader what he's looking at, since the painting is not Rockwelly enough to discern that otherwise, and the ID tag beneath it is barely legible.

Yeah, I think that's what the dialogue is there for too, to make it abundantly clear what we're looking at. Much like how our usual batshit cartoonists feel the need to label their drawing of the Capitol with "Congress". Suppose that's its own complaint.

uhm, i kinda get what he's gesturing at with "what's a traditional family" but it's just rings a bit hollow to me. self-congratulatory, right-side-of-history liberalism. just to say that "traditional family" is contemporary language and is a complete non sequitur from rockwell

Traditional family about as relevant as the globe-conquering communist menace.

Batshit leftwing cartoon for once, still hilarious

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yeah, i'm going to say a cartoon "BOOM!" sound is always a hard sell when people are dead and injured, etc. There's a great concept there to undergird a more somber and perhaps that much more damning political cartoon - but that might have also ended up ridiculously OTT, in a different way.

Maybe instead of a Boom, we could've had another Perry OOPS.

That's some good art, I know that.

Perry demands apology for cartoon, Ohman/the Sacramento Bee won't apologize:

I'm defending this one because I think that when you have a politician traveling across the country selling a state with low regulatory capacity, that politician also has to be accountable for what happens when that lack of regulation proves to be fatal.

That's exponentially more offensive to me.

My job, as I understand it, is to be provocative. I provoke, you decide. I don't dictate, I put out my opinion along with everyone else. I sign my name. I own it. In my opinion, I could have gone further. Much further.

for pete's sake dude, you're really gonna make me have a point of agreement with rick perry? fuck you forever

the response to provocation isn't usually decision-making

it's usually punching or stabbing

i guess that's a decision too but not quite what he meant

would the waco explosion have not happened if there was more regulation or something? is this something people are saying

the plant hadn't been inspected in like 30 years so yeah maybe some government oversight would have helped there

of course if that explosion happened in a third world country we would have had a Yglesias column about how it's really all for the best

In my opinion, I could have gone further. Much further.

Go on...

Nothing like opening up the Sacremento Bee on a spring morning and seeing an illustration of a headless fireman flying through the air like a meteor.

This cartoon is fine. Fuck Perry.

the cartoon is indeed acceptable.

good on them for sticking by it.

any cartoon simplifying the deaths of people to make a partisan political point can fuck off

How complicated were their deaths exactly?

ask their families

Gimme a range.

i'm missing the headless fireman

Aren't we all? ;_;

Well, the political point was that Perry's politics are to blame in these deaths. How is he supposed to make that point without using the deaths? And really, more than a 'political' point, it is a 'true' one.

"simplifying" isn't really the right word, forks

The issue as I see it is that the cartoon comments on the explosion in that manner depersonalizes the lives of the people affected by it; the point is IMO extremely valid but it's presented in a manner more interested in scoring points off of Perry than it is in remembering/honoring the people who were killed,, which is going to be problematic for people whose empathy works in that particular manner. Those whose empathy is engaged by feeling rage towards the behavior that created the environment that allowed the explosion to take place are less likely to be upset.

How is he supposed to make that point without using the deaths?

simplify=depersonalize, yes.

maybe the cartoonist thinks that the callousness that right-wing low-reg/no-reg ideologues exhibit towards those whose lives are affected or indeed ended by their policies deserves to be showcased rather than tastefully alluded to.

you're not gonna convince me that a "business is booming" joke is going to accomplish that.

well i think that he meant to cause gut-level revulsion and he acdid accomplish that but in your case (and many others, i guess) that revulsion was directed at him, rather than the person/people he names in his cartoon

cartoon on point. fuck perry

Yeah, the cartoon is absolutely on point, the point is valid and true. But it might have been made better, in a way which didn't upset anyone of the victims. Although, apparantly Perry is the one who is upset. Fuck him.

if someone drew an editorial cartoon featuring obama talking about surgical drone strikes, followed by a "boom" representing an innocent family getting blown to smithereens, i wouldn't object. so i don't object to this.

cartoon is right and just. and ugly. another thing that's ugly is that people have to die because DEREGULATION THE FREE MARKET RAH RAH RAH. satire is often very cruel; it points a mirror at its target.

aero OTM.

if someone drew an editorial cartoon featuring obama talking about surgical drone strikes, followed by a "boom" representing an innocent family getting blown to smithereens, i wouldn't object. so i don't object to this.

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, April 29, 2013 4:53 PM

cartoon is right and just. and ugly. another thing that's ugly is that people have to die because DEREGULATION THE FREE MARKET RAH RAH RAH. satire is often very cruel; it points a mirror at its target.

― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, April 29, 2013 4:55 PM

100 percent in agreement with both these posts. Real satire shouldn't make you laugh - it should make you gag/wince.

yeah, basically

although it can also make you laugh

Comparing Perry to an exploding silo full of fertilizer is almost too much of a gimme.

i've said my piece: this seems unnecessarily hamhanded and not incisive in any other way than the simplest sort of dad joke pun. i have no issue with difficult humor or offensive humor but thomas nast this ain't.

Was trying to look up some yuk yuks that were drawn after Bhopal and came across this:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/16/world/asia/16-Mamata-Surendra-IndiaInk/16-Mamata-Surendra-IndiaInk-blog480.jpg

guilty, guilty lol

so i can't even really be bothered with the new wave of warmed-over benghazi cartoons, most of them are just rehashes of stuff from ages ago, especially the hillary "what difference does it make" schtick. so, instead:

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca050913dBP20130507104516.jpg

ZINNNNNNNNNNNG!

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cool, this new megaman sequel is looking more and more promising

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sk050613dAPR20130505084512.jpg

try...harder...

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/Foden20130505-Iron%20Man20130504070959.jpg

what is it with this?

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/bg050713dAPR20130501074518.jpg

buncha lazy unemployment-benefit bums, holding us back etc etc

Oh, and I should mention that a bunch of benghazi cartoons use the "compare this to jason collins" thing, as seen on the "conservative images" thread, etc., but i really can't muster the energy to post those.

Why do you allow baby killers to hijack your Democrat party?

joke's on you Muslim sock puppet, because there's no such thing as the "Democrat" party.

Thing is you could rewrite that last panel to make an actual point about what wars are doing for our image abroad. But nah...

The irony man one is completely incomprehensible. I have no idea what point they are even trying to make.

I always assume it's some Glenn Beck thing we're not up on

"Fast and Furious" is shorthand for the ATF's bungled attempt at a gun-running sting operation, about which right-wingers remain very incensed. Presumably the idea is that if the administration is concerned about gun control they should have controlled those guns! Etc!

Confusingly, the cartoon is also set at a movie theater in a year when a Fast and the Furious movie is coming out, rendering everything a totally confusing mess even if you're able to penetrate the cartoonist's signature heavily bolded text and 0-point line spacing.

It's easy to forget that Obama signed that executive order taking away all guns and completely bypassing congress on gun control.

woah - and that happened in Iron Man 3 too! It all fits together!

Guy reading the paper behind the bench looks like a narc.

benefits so shitty that ppl can't even afford to buy food with them is a disgrace, i am with you cartoon man

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that's fair

they both really need to think twice about what t-shirts they wear

she'll sure be steamed when she gets to little dubya's pile of 100,000 dead iraqis

I wonder if cambodia is in the water

missed opportunity to the have the fire started by solar power

why isn't it benghazi gate???

bengatezy

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

bra✧✧✧@rea✧✧✧.c✧✧

@ reagan.com

got there in the end hey

George W Bush off to the side using some destroyed alphabet block towers as an excuse to bully the new kid.

Wouldn't it be funny if different presidents had been in kindergarten together? I think it would look a little like this....

Lock thread: Asay retired.

(pronounced "Ay-see")

!

TOO BAD ASAY AIN'T IN CHARGE NO MORE

Hayzee Chuck Asay

BENGASAY

What a nice guy

It was a lovely bigoted comic really wasn’t it.

its realy sad

Mallard Fillmore particularly noxious today.

https://sphotos-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/550074_603832879640166_616562161_n.jpg

what a horribly formed "political cartoon"

seriously how badly can one person fuck up the labels on these things

Fucking McCoy. Fucking McCoys, really, but specifically Glenn this time.

Glenn McCoy genuinely seems like he had part of his brain crushed by a school bus