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it's very reassuring to me that someone can make a meaning out of all this, with pictures and words. i think that's why all the tv pundits raced to get copies of the next day's paper on tuesday, to seal off this gaping void of meaning by means of tangible, static documentation. it helps at least. anyway, my favorite is Tom Toles.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a crying shame that the genius of Steve Bell isn't available on the interweb. Perhaps The Guardian realise they'd lose a good chunk of their physical circulation if all the Bellophiles could get their fix online instead.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I really like Tom Toles as well -- interestingly enough, he's recently replaced "Vint's Week" as the political art in the front section of The New Republic. (Disclaimer: I only read it because I need to keep up with the book reviews for work.)

And wonderful Tom Tomorrow:

Per spectives on free trade.

Are you a left-wing wacko?

― Nitsuh, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom Tomorrow's always been very good... also Ted Rall this week has done some very hard-hitting work - an overused adjective, I know, but he's fulfilling the political cartoonist's first responsibility, i.e. making you think without resorting to the crude or offensive. Pat Oliphant, judging by his latest effort, doesn't particularly care about making anyone think or even feel. Overly crude in its sacharrine banality, mildly offensive in the same way.

― Al, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We had Paul Conrad out here for the LA Times for years, and he was great. Then Michael Ramirez came in, and the problem was clear -- HE IS NOT FUNNY. There are entertaining conservative political cartoonists -- Ramirez is not one of them. That he could write for the blandest of sitcoms is testament to his nonexistent talent.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bruce Tinsley's < i>Mallard Fillmore is an abomination.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I luv Steve Bell's cartoons, especially his caricature of William Hague.

― DG, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Steve Bell = Polly Toynbee w/rabies

― dave q, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave q = rabies

― DG, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

SO if Polly Toynbee had Dave Q, would be Steve Bell. Hmm, possible would actually.

― Pete, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ste ve Bell is the best
Further Example
Can't find any involving penguins though which are the best.

― Ed, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I utter a heresy and suggest that Steve Bell is overrated, crude and never funny? I'm not a big fan of political cartoonists. I like the old skool ones with things like 'WAR' and 'PESTILENCE' written on things. Of the Guardian cartoonists, I like Nicola Jennings.

― Nick, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Polly Toynbee, as I've mentioned before, falls right down in my estimation with her apparent belief that Germany is a social democratic utopia free from Linkin Park infestation. I mean, have you *seen* their album chart lately? It's no way out.

I quite like Steve Bell though some have overrated him. Michael Heath is obviously a terrible old fogey but I still like his Private Eye cartoons. I also like Brandt, the physical cartoonist from the Daily Telegraph. I don't like Nicholas Garland, though.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyone see that gilray exhibition at tate britian? that was brilliant.

he seemed way better than the present bunch. but i think for cartoons, political or otherwise, private eye has the best.

steve bell is ok, martin rowson is good, heath is bloody awful imo.

― ambrose, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never got the Steve Bell think at all. Martin Rowson, on the other hand, has always been great.

― Mark Morris, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Afraid to say I find Bell overrated too, though the image of Major with his y fronts outside his trousers will haunt him to his grave.

Don't think you'll find a better or more economical cartoonist than David Low. He must have done something right as he was on Hitler's death list if he'd invaded Britain.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Martin Rowson is possibly the worst cartoonist of all time. Not only are his drawings supremely ugly (and not in a 'good' way - it looks like he colours them with a felt tip in abt a minute) but his entire 'act' seems to be depicting deformed people throwing up into buckets. He cannot caricature to save his life. The otherwise overrated Steve Bell is a genius by comparison.

Nick Newman is a bit of a gag monster; Wally ('Trog') Fawkes is a great artist; Garland is just a Vicky clone; Michael Heath's strip abt 'The Blairs' in the Spectator is baffingly bad.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I just want point out that the gaurdian have deigned to put up one of steve bell's best cartoons . Excellent comment on both the bobing of afganistan and the media coverage of it..

― Ed, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

from a link further up I really like todays Tom Toles

― Ed, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found this very funny.

― Nick, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bell has a genuinely uncanny gift for the (use other words please) surreal detail, like as to no other cartoonist working today: Maggie's dementoid boss eyes, for example.

Tom Johnson has always struck me as the most inept cartoon in the UK (he used to be at the MM, fact fans). My mum always points out how well JAK drew the curly wires on a telephone, in nearly every cartoon. He also excelled at Product Placement, which was fairly hilarious once you knew to look out for it.

― mark s, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Steve Bell Archive. i was going to give some props to some of my favorite but they're all pretty good

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All this stuff about political cartoonists is rubbish. There is only one truly funny gagster in UK papers and that's Austin of the Guardian. Genius

― nigel newton, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three weeks pass...

yet another good steve bell

― Ed, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

arrr, your giving of the Steve Bell to RickyT will only ensure me many hours of non-phone use! :)

― katie, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine months pass...

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 October 2002 05:19 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tom the Dancing Bug" by Rueben Boles (sp?) is pretty great. I'm too lazy to surf for it now but he has a hilarious recurring superhero character named "God Man" and in one strip George W. hires "God Man" to work in the White House for him.

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

We got Horsey in the Seattle area. I may agree with him most of the time, but I can't fucking stand his art. And he's won awards too.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 22 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ever since my local paper dropped Tom the Dancing Bug, I'd forgotten about it completely. Dagnabit. God Man is classic.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone can feel free to teach me about posting links, but in the meantime, I believe the link is www.tomthedancingbug.com, Leee. (Easy enough to remember ...)

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Jewelly, thanks -- I actually googled and found the site. As far as posting links, do exactly what you just did, but add the "http://"

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

But then how do you make the link part of a word in the sentence, like when you say "Go here," and the "here" is blue and linky and everything?

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all like, <_a href=http://yourlinkhere.com_>the text you want<_/a_> without the underscores.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent. My brain feels so much fatter with knowledge now. Thanks, Leee.

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, it totally worked!

― jewelly (jewelly), Friday, 22 August 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

I found this while thinking about starting a thread for my burning hatred of political cartoons, especially smug left-wing ones that I hate agreeing with, and when I opened this thread and the third reply was by someone named "Al" (with a different e-mail address) endorsing Tom Tomorrow, my heart skipped a beat for a moment at the thought that it's possible I ever posted something nice about that bullshit. The Modern World is so painfully hamfistedly unfunny that the biggest effort the guy makes at humor is embodying the voice of reason as a penguin.

so i dunno, thread revive.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i was reading through some of those "best political cartoons of the year" and...it had never really occurred to me before how BAD most political cartoons are. strangely, the kneejerk right-wing ones tend to be better drawn than the kneejerk left-wing ones.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Not rightwing and not batshit, so I couldn't post it on that thread, I thought.
(source: http://www.mattbors.com/2008/06/cartoon-roundup.html )

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― StanM, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

NEW: Telegraph to suspend cartoonist Bob Moran @bobscartoons over Twitter posts targeting NHS doctor @doctor_oxford https://t.co/OsV1fSgLWp
— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) September 28, 2021

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:25 (four years ago)

they'll always have matt

― mark s, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 16:34 (four years ago)

Wrong choice.

Reception class, first time ever had to change for PE. I panicked. Took off trousers AND pants. Then just stood there trying to work out where I’d gone wrong until the teacher came over and said,
“Let’s put that away, shall we Robert.”
— Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) September 20, 2021

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 19:20 (four years ago)

Matt nails it again. pic.twitter.com/ANnCOv1JZh
— christhebarker (@christhebarker) September 28, 2021

― mark s, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 20:10 (four years ago)

two years pass...

Matt nails it again, again

https://x.com/RossMcCaff/status/1752803544774918429

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 1 February 2024 14:09 (one year ago)

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