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 When I look at Donna Bartsow's cartoons, I wonder if she draws them upside down. I hate this cartoon and I bet you were thinking of Bil Keane when you drew it. Edit: Just to be sure, this is my sincere commentary on the art of Donna Barstow, as is protected by Fair Use. Power Walrus fucked around with this message at Jul 3, 2012 around 07:33 |
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Power Walrus posted:
This one is actually pretty deep. Its not about God loving us, its about us loving Him and trying to get closer to him. An all you can eat buffet is the key to obesity, heart disease, and an early death, thus uniting you with the heavenly father. Through eating til we die, we find salvation.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:25 |
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 It's impossible to pick a favorite. They're all so childish and Poe's Lawsian. I love Donna Barstow and I hope she never stops creating her art, let alone improve one iota past "monkey with MSPaint" levels of quality.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:29 |
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LP97S posted:Hate to break the news but we're only the latest website to Hahaha you can tell she put the text on first, then drew the breasts as an afterthought. Is that one growing out of her armpit?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:29 |
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 Who has President Obama cocooned inside these American flags? Is he talking about hair, or grass? Why do we need to be told what he is saying vs what he is thinking, when the two bubble are already differentiated by a speech spike and a thought bubble?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:32 |
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 Showcasing a mastery of Dada-ism and anti-humor, Barstow uses a few crude brushstrokes to create something less than nothing, something more empty and barren of meaning than an empty canvas.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:34 |
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 Dear cartoonist whose name I don't care enough about to scroll up to be reminded of, I hate you. Not because of your nebulous jabs which grasp at fruit so low-hanging as to be trod upon, but because you hosed up the word "omnivorous". It seems like a small thing, but it's indicative of so much that's failing to happen on your part. You are a disgrace to the noble tradition of sociopolitical satire and commentary; your entire lot in life hinged on the ability to craft language and image into something eye-opening and you can't even be bothered to to spell check. Everything you've ever created serves the opposite of its intended purpose by highlighting how profoundly retarded people with your worldview can be. You are your most ruthless satirist. In summary: Hurry up and get the gently caress off my internet, you slack-teated gorgon. E: That isn't an open letter to her, of course. That is a commentary/critique in the form of an open letter which contains more than thirty words. Can't be too careful. HoboZero fucked around with this message at Jul 3, 2012 around 06:08 |
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 In L.A., the gyms have workout equipment that consist of a stair stepper with pedals on the outside — unless you are a man. If you are a man, you may only use the stair stepper, as you can see by the lack of pedals on the man's machine. Is this about some perceived reversal of privilege in American gyms? Is this about the lack of choices Californian men have in life (versus women)? Or is this simply commentary about the truly Sisyphean nature of exercise?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 05:45 |
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The perfect place to have ADD.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:04 |
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Scurvy posted:
The joke, you see, is that liberals and LA... (She has ADD and can't finish the comic.)
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:07 |
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So, going through some of her old stuff, I stumbled upon this: at http://thecartoons.net/page/7/ which has a date of 3/26/10 for the blog post. Now not only did this picture have a semblance to actual humor, but I thought I'd seen this before, and thought it predated this post. I found a similar picture at: http://www.lolpix.com/pictures/8/Funny_Pictures_339.htm dated 7/16/2008. Different illustration, as identified by the break in the right border of the report card, the pattern on the snake's neck, and the reduction of the humor by changing D.Python to B.Python. So did she leak a comic of hers two years before its publication, or is our queen of crying copyright infringement just a big ol' copycat?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:24 |
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The two most emotionally gripping comics of our generation, merged for the first time ever. EDIT: With more text, therefore it is more fair-use-y 
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Abugadu posted:So, going through some of her old stuff, I stumbled upon this: She also changed "people" to "kids". This is a pretty amazing & damning find!
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:40 |
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What a completely worthless person. It's unfortunate that I have been made aware of her existence.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:45 |
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Abugadu posted:Exhibit A Oh wow, that's amazing. What a goddamn hypocrite. Also, notice how her site is "mysteriously" down. Who wants to bet that the snake pic is gone when it comes back up?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:51 |
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That snake comic is actually hilarious which is proof enough that she stole it.Wanup Vodka posted:notice how her site is "mysteriously" down. Who wants to bet that the snake pic is gone when it comes back up?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:53 |
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Wanup Vodka posted:Oh wow, that's amazing. What a goddamn hypocrite. Also, notice how her site is "mysteriously" down. Who wants to bet that the snake pic is gone when it comes back up? No worries. I'm on it: https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/...047188439478272
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:55 |
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She won't tell me what her favorite bird is 
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 06:58 |
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So, her reaction to me calling her attention to the snake cartoon was to scream IT'S MY CARTOON!!! and block me. EDIT: At least I'm assuming that she blocked me. It might be a Goon Rush, but I can't read anything she says and I can't re-tweet her now.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:01 |
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Abugadu posted:So, going through some of her old stuff, I stumbled upon this: Well she's desperately trying to find out who she can send a DMCA takedown notice to on lolpix.com and she blocked me on Twitter when I asked about the plagiarism.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:02 |
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Omnicarus posted:She won't tell me what her favorite bird is It's the one that looks like this 
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Vargo posted:So, her reaction to me calling her attention to the snake cartoon was to scream IT'S MY CARTOON!!! and block me.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:03 |
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If that's really her cartoon, where are the seventeen watermarks? and why isn't she suing lolpix.com?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:05 |
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She can't find the webmasters TELL HER WHO THE WEBMASTERS ARE It's one big lovely cartoon stealing conspiracy
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:06 |
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I'm just happy someone's retweeting my punchy one-liners. Wait, can I threaten to sue? If so, I'm outraged.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:09 |
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Here's the boingboing article already discussing this: Political cartoonist angry http://boingboing.net/2012/07/02/cartoonist.html
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:11 |
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Gigantic Slut Man posted:Well she's desperately trying to find out who she can send a DMCA takedown notice to on lolpix.com and she blocked me on Twitter when I asked about the plagiarism. There is a photo of the same Cartoon on Google search with the time tag of Feb 2, 2007.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:16 |
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Wanup Vodka posted:Oh wow, that's amazing. What a goddamn hypocrite. Also, notice how her site is "mysteriously" down. Who wants to bet that the snake pic is gone when it comes back up? Yeah, I actually pointed that out to her on Twitter, after she kept accusing me of being an Idiot Coward Thief who refuses to share my real name, instead of my nom de plume, @caylenb.   She also insisted that we were causing her to starve, since we somehow aren't respecting copyright.  Eventually, my feelings got hurt by her constant need to insult my character, so I brought up my concerns regarding one of the cases of her unattributed plagiarism:  At this point, she took the moral high ground and bravely blocked me on Twitter, thus preventing me from sharing with her some of the other instances of her intentional copyright infringement on the works of other artists, and took down her website as well. My associates and I thought that she might resort to such noble deeds, and earlier took the time to archive her entire websites & images, as well as screenshots of said acts of plagiarism. Since we expect the other instances to not be removed shortly after this incident, we don't intend on publicly sharing her other acts of stolen political cartoons - until we've heard back from the artists who's rights were infringed, and some of her current and former publishers where she used these lifted illustrations and branded them as her own. This is why it's so important to Respect Fair Use, especially of the works of Donna Barstow. Assuming that they in fact are actually her work, and not the stolen derivative of another artist. BUT ASSUMING THAT THEY ARE, you need to be respectful. Or she might starve  I apologize for any future acts of cowardice or thievery I might partake in.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I'm just happy someone's retweeting my punchy one-liners. I don't know in what reality she thinks it's a grand idea to retweet all the abuse flowing in at her. She must thrive on it somehow, feed on it. And demanding real names from everyone? Is she going to ask for birth certificates, too?
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Abeya Minora posted:Or she might starve Maybe we could send her a nutrition guide, chocolate alone can't be good for anyone.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:25 |
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Vargo posted:No worries. I'm on it: https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/...047188439478272 Barstow posted:Donna Barstow @cartooness ... I don't think she remembered that she had changed some of the details when she copied it.  E: It was those drat people who stole her work that Photoshopped her art! Yes, that is definitely it. (I sincerely hope she uses this as an excuse) Rynoto fucked around with this message at Jul 3, 2012 around 07:33 |
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What is it with these kinds of people and the lemmings myth? http://www.donnabarstow.com/f5.htm Also: Donna Barstow posted:Who taught you how to blog, anyway?
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:32 |
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I can't stop laughing at this. He looks worried/curious but she's so calm. Those lieberals have it all mixed up! The next thing we know, they'll be asking to let in mixed-race babies into our white pre-schools.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:32 |
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I love how she calls us all those lovely words, and then ends with @fart. Like we would be offended. 
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jadedhula posted:I love how she calls us all those lovely words, and then ends with @fart. Like we would be offended. @fart is the twitter handle of Something Awful Head Eggmaster Jon Hendren.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:34 |
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Rynoto posted:... I don't think she remembered that she had changed some of the details when she copied it. It's possible that she redrew it for whatever reason for the print version. That does happen even with real artists sometimes. Anyway the evidence value of an uncredited picture on LOLPIX is not very strong.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:36 |
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In all fairness, I did literally ASK for it: Then I civilly attempted to explain what we do here:  Then I just became a dick:   I linked her a few screenshots from the front page of the political cartoon thread. This was the result:  At which point she screamed MY CARTOON and blocked me.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:38 |
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Vargo posted:I'm the @SchneidRemarks that she said had a nose which was growing. I remember when we first starting following her hilariously banal cartoons somebody described her as "the Dunning–Kruger effect in action," which is really the best possible description of her and her "work."
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 07:39 |
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Nenonen posted:It's possible that she redrew it for whatever reason for the print version. That does happen even with real artists sometimes. Anyway the evidence value of an uncredited picture on LOLPIX is not very strong. should be pretty easy to prove, she said it was published- magazines have back issues.
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So apparently if we just link to the actual page of every cartoon, we're good. That's totally how the internet works.
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