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Once upon a time, in a land called America, there lived a cartoonist named Charles R. Asay, though his friends called him Chuck. For many years Asay plied his trade, refining his gentle, almost friendly style until the quality of his artwork was rivalled only by the awfulness of his opinions. You see, being a right wing Christian born in 1942, Asay had developed his attitudes toward politics and society in a time when things were not as they are today. As such he firmly believed in the illegality and immorality of a number of things that we take for granted, like proper health care and being black. In time Asay grew old in the service of his craft, and as old men do he looked back on the golden memories of days gone by and found them infinitely more appealing than the grey and gloomy present where there was in the White House a black man so lazy that in four years he had yet to deliver a single telegram or shine even one pair of shoes. He drew many a cartoon wherein he would contrast the good old days with the terrible times he lived in. Witness his moving tribute in the wake of the 2011 Utøya massacre:  Oddly, few among the younger generation felt that Norway would be improved if all Norwegians were violent killers instead of just one. Nor was this an atypical response to Asay's cartoons, as the members of Generations X, Why? and Zzzzz looked again and again at his work with cynical eyes. Eventually, feeling his wisdom was falling upon stony ground, Asay finally decided enough was enough and retired. Which is where you come in. Your mission, whether or not you choose to accept it, is to restore the moral compass of the cartooning world by creating new contrasts between the old and the new or between two points of view. In this you are to enlist the aid of Asay's great body of work.  Mission Parameters
It used to be Asay. Now it's YOU. XyloJW posted:When Jedit pitched this contest idea to me, I didn't expect it to get this awesome. Originally, the first place prize was going to be an account upgrade of the winner's choice, and an avatar change for second place. Jedit fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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In light of the super awesome entries, the winner will now be receiving a super awesome prize in real life, provided they don't live in a country that I can't ship to! 
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Some additional resources and Asay archives: http://www.gocomics.com/chuckasay <-- this one goes back to 2003. http://www.creators.com/editorialcartoons/chuck-asay.html http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/browse.cfm/ASAYC http://www.asaydoodle.com/new-toons.html Sparr posted:A little rough, but should be useful. A few more exemplars of the kind of thing we're looking for: (These are original Asays, not edits!)     
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Nov 18, 2013 09:33
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Ok, I made this:
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Nov 18, 2013 10:36
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Chuck's final cartoon, if anyone wants to go for broke.
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Nov 18, 2013 15:11
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Nov 18, 2013 15:25
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Sir Tonk posted:Chuck's final cartoon, if anyone wants to go for broke. Looking through comics for the contest, but why did he kill a horse/donkey/mule? Was he hunting ones with his rifle and Jesus? Or is this cryptic art where we put the puzzle together, like the new Christians know the virtue of shooting donkeys? Or does it mean that he's trying to imply that he's killed Democrats through their symbol? Is that the message? "Christians, shoot, democrats" is how his wall reads.
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mugrim posted:Looking through comics for the contest, but why did he kill a horse/donkey/mule? Was he hunting ones with his rifle and Jesus? He's also wearing a three-corner hat, I think the message is that the Tea Party killed both the Democrats and Jesus.
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Nov 18, 2013 15:34
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Simple text edits are ok? It's funny, how simple "Used to be/now it's" makes it look like 2nd panel is somehow bad.
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Nov 18, 2013 15:51
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I feel like no satire of Chuck Asay is even possible -- no matter what someone comes up with, it probably already exists somewhere as a real Chuck Asay.
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crowfeathers posted:I feel like no satire of Chuck Asay is even possible -- no matter what someone comes up with, it probably already exists somewhere as a real Chuck Asay. I honestly thought that all of the examples in the second post were supposed to be submissions.
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Nov 18, 2013 18:00
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Nov 18, 2013 19:25
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Nov 18, 2013 19:55
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Gonna be quite a thread if they're all this good.
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Nov 18, 2013 20:09
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Nov 18, 2013 20:23
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 Ralph and Chuck
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Nov 18, 2013 20:28
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Bicycles!   Also, in the op you only have two panel examples but sometimes Asay does a four panel format like this: http://www.gocomics.com/chuckasay/2013/05/15#.Uo-jPEDWZOY are four panel "it used to be's" allowed? Koishi Komeiji fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 18, 2013 20:35
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Mighty Stalker posted:Also, in the op you only have two panel examples but sometimes Asay does a four panel format like this: As long as they follow the compare/contrast format and have at least one authentic Asay panel, I don't see why not!
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Nov 18, 2013 20:42
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Hahaha. Awesome. Great submissions so far!
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Nov 18, 2013 20:44
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Would it be ok to post the original Asay with the submission? I honestly can't tell if these are real or not! (or if that's part of the fun, then leave it as is)
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Nov 18, 2013 20:54
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These are surprisingly fun to make.
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Nov 18, 2013 20:58
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seiferguy posted:Would it be ok to post the original Asay with the submission? I honestly can't tell if these are real or not! I would recommend not posting originals in this thread, because when we're all done the judges are going to have to find the actual entries. This will be considerably easier if there are no other images in the thread, and will avert the possibility of accidentally awarding the prize to a genuine Asay cartoon. So if you have posted an original Asay cartoon, please take it out. Thanks.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:19
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Nov 18, 2013 21:20
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A quick and (very) rough 'Asay makes a good cartoon'.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:23
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This is pretty drat difficult. I really don't envy people who do this often at all.
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Nov 18, 2013 21:28
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Nov 18, 2013 21:56
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 Yeah, yeah, low hanging fruit and all.
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Nov 18, 2013 22:04
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Koishi Komeiji fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Nov 18, 2013 |
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Nov 18, 2013 22:11
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Nov 18, 2013 22:50
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Nov 18, 2013 22:50
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poo poo, that's great. Which strip Keep On Truckin' Obama from?
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Nov 18, 2013 22:56
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Nov 18, 2013 22:58
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 Now with actual effort!
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Nov 18, 2013 23:04
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Nov 18, 2013 23:12
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Why does this look familiar? Oh yeah.
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Nov 18, 2013 23:18
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 Man, too many of the best combos have really awkward horizontal-vs-vertical alignment issues.
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Nov 18, 2013 23:24
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Can I... enter more than once? Because, I feel we have a lot to learn about parenting from Chuck Asay: 
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Nov 18, 2013 23:24
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crowfeathers posted:Can I... enter more than once? Yeah, make as many as you want!
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Nov 18, 2013 23:30
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  but I love the dinosaur too much.Some great work in this thread
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Nov 18, 2013 23:41
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Doubtful Guest posted:
That second panel shows how Pats fans are born. A TFF Cartoon.
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Some good submissions so far. I'm just going through the archive from 2003. I'm gonna be hella depressed before I make up anything.
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