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SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts
In case you're clicking to the first page to find them, here are the Gaybies categories for this year:

  • Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy
  • Worst cartoon about Terrorism
  • Worst Obituary Cartoon
  • Worst Caricature
  • Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon
  • Worst Label
  • Most Incomprehensible
  • Least Concealed Bigotry in a Cartoon
  • Worst "Deep State" Cartoon
  • Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon
  • Most Easily Reinterpreted
  • Most Willfully Dense
  • Worst Gaslighter Cartoon
  • Best Edit/Parody
  • Worst Cartoon about the Election

Please remember to add your nominations to the wiki

And now, on with the show!


Previous Threads: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007-2008

Welcome to the Political Cartoons Thread! This is where we post, discuss, and mock political cartoons and the cartoonists that make them. It's Year Three Thousand in the Age of Trump, and we await the fresh hell that approaches us. So more than ever, edits and parodies are welcome in this den of hacks, shills, and has-beens, with weekends being a good opportunity to share any older cartoons you've dug up. Check out your local library for older archives and don't be afraid to share. So familiarize yourself with the thread rules, and dive into what's been called "D&D's worst thread" by critics!




:siren:This is the stuff that can get you probated or banned, so listen up.:siren:
  • Sometimes cartoonists are cheeky and use nudity in their cartoons. Remember to link that poo poo and put a :nws: warning next to it.
  • There is no moratorium for any subject. When something bad happens, don't tell people that it's "too soon" to bring up topic X, Y, or Z. This bugs the mod staff because it's not like someone is going to come in later and say it's now okay to discuss those topics now. It also derails the thread like you wouldn't believe.
  • Chris Muir and Day by Day are still banned from the thread.
  • Do not touch the poop without extremely careful consideration. "Touching the poop" means interacting with a cartoonist for the sake of getting some chuckles out of it. This can be funny, but some of the cartoonists discussed in this thread have legitimate mental illnesses, and we don't need to send these people over the edge or trying to sue this place (even if you think it would be hilariously futile). If you believe you have a stellar idea, then check in with the thread first before going through with it.


:siren:THESE ARE NOT HARD RULES:siren: This is just a list of recommendations to make the thread go more smoothly. Don't yell at people or report them for violating poo poo here unless it actually violates a forum rule!
  • Discussion about which cartoonist is "best" or "worst" have a tendency to go nowhere fast, and it won't cover anything that hasn't been touched on before.
  • Requesting that people stop posting a particular cartoonist is an exercise in futility. It's nearly impossible to get people to agree on what cartoonists to ban from the thread, so they're all allowed. You're just going to have to suck it up and skip the ones you hate. If you really think a cartoon isn't appropriate for the thread, then take it up with a mod.
  • Having said the above, please limit how often you dig up amateur work from places like DeviantArt, 4chan, or Reddit. While it can be a humorous change of pace to bring up some skinhead's furry cartoons to mock, this has a tendency to get old quickly.
  • When posting a large number of cartoons, don't just post a bunch of links. As a courtesy to people reading, it's helpful to put a unique number next to each cartoon so people can easily pick out certain cartoons out when quoting your post.
  • Kelly from the Onion is parody, and encouraging new readers to think that he's sincere has long stopped being funny.
  • Rarely, a cartoonist will actually acknowledge our existence on social media or wherever. Try not to be weird about it, such as making a post that directly addresses that person.
  • The 2016 Election is a black hole from which no discussion can escape, so tread carefully regarding the subject.
  • That being said, don't be afraid to engage in some discourse over whatever the cartoons are discussing!



Q: This guy got paid for this?
A: Maybe! Political Cartoonists are generally paid in two ways--as a staff position or on a per-cartoon basis by a syndicate.

If a cartoonist is a staff cartoonist, they'll list their employer by their name. These cartoonists are paid a living wage and just about all of their cartoons are actually approved by an editor, printed, and seen by human beings.

If a cartoonist is a member of a syndicate, they'll list their syndicate by their name, usually Cagle or U-Click. These syndicates act as a market for editors. We have no idea whether a particular cartoon posted by a syndicate is actually sold. Reportedly, they are sold for around $10 a cartoon, which is then split by the cartoonist and the syndicate. As you can imagine, this means a cartoonist can make very little or very much in syndication.

There's also the rare exception of cartoonists who are paid by donation, but this is becoming more common through sites such as Patreon and Kickstarter.

Q: How obscure is this guy? Is anyone ever actually going to see this?
A: For most, there's no way to tell. Unless they're a staff cartoonist, the cartoon may never be printed or seen by anyone. Most of the cartoonists here are published to a fairly large audience but, as the internet offers easier ways to get your work out there, this thread has seen an increasing amount of obscure or fringe cartoonists. Just assume they're read by a non-trivial amount of people unless there's proof otherwise.

Q: Is everyone posted here an evil, stupid, conservative rear end in a top hat?
A: No, we post all kinds. Sometimes a cartoon will present an evil idea sarcastically, sometimes they're just evil. If you can't tell just by looking at it, just look them up in the index for a very general idea.

Q: Did this cartoonist get a Pulitzer for one cartoon or what?
A: Apparently Pulitzers many decades ago were given out for a particular cartoon or two, but as time goes on it seems to have shifted to the artist's work for the year. So while we make mock someone like Ramirez for obvious "Pulitzer Bait", technically all of his cartoons are judged for the award. Yeah...we don't hold the Pulitzer in high regard.

Q: Is this just for American/Canadian cartoonists, or...?
A: We allow cartoons of all stripes, and we adore stuff from foreign cartoonists as a break from the usual suspects. There is a thread for UK cartoons, but we've felt that there haven't been enough UK cartoons posted in this thread and would encourage people to start posting them in here again. However it would be nice, if you have the time, to explain some of the stuff that harder to decipher.

Q: What about funny page cartoons? Webcomics?
A: A cartoon with regular political content, such as Doonesbury or Prickly City, can be posted here no problem. Your Garfield and Family Circus stuff should go to the Comic Strip Megathread in BSS, although feel free to share the rare individual strips that are political in nature. Webcomics follow the same procedure: it's fair game if there's overt contemporary political themes, otherwise take it elsewhere. Remember that Day by Day, a political webcomic, is banned from this thread. Take it to the Bad Webcomic Thread or whatever place allows such garbage.

Q: Can I share this crazy email from my mom? How about this image macro I saw on Facebook?
A: This thread is strictly for political cartoons. Check out this thread for sharing political emails from your family, and this thread for political pictures. If you wish to further go down the rabbit hole, check out the Right Wing Media and Freep threads.

Q: Can I see more from X?
A: We'd really like to see more people consistently posting the same cartoonist(s) so they don't get missed. If you want to step up to the plate for a particular person, then by all means. You can post them as they come, or do weekly dumps if that's easier on you.

Q: What happened to the cartoonist index?
A: The index was an artifact from when old poster XyloJW made the thread, and I kept it updated for the sake of new people. However, the list took a decent chunk of time to update each year, and very few people used it so it didn't solve the problem of people asking the same questions about cartoonists. Xander77 made a few profiles about the more infamous cartoonists posted here, in case you need a primer:
Payne: http://imgur.com/gallery/C2ysj
Garrison: http://imgur.com/gallery/ZdFwM
Tinsley: http://imgur.com/gallery/hFGWV
Gorrell: http://imgur.com/gallery/rnrPT
Ramirez: http://imgur.com/gallery/QrEjj
Rall: http://imgur.com/gallery/xDjKV

Q: This cartoon is transphobic but doesn't seem related to any actual current event, what's going on?
A: The cartoonist is probably Pat Cross, who haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates trans people (and the LGBTQ+ community in general, but especially trans and gender non-conforming people); Stonetoss, about whom the less is said the better; or Tatsuya Ishida, whose long-running webcomic Sinfest has recently turned overtly, explicitly transphobic and who's literally banned any positive opinions of trans or gender-non-conforming people from his comic's forums.


The thread has developed a few inside jokes and terms:

AGC: Shorthand for "A Good Cartoon." Basically, you intentionally interpret a comic with a fairly obvious bad message as having a good message. The original point of this was to poke fun at some of the really poor metaphors that some cartoonists were crafting, but the concept of AGC has been run into the ground. If you want to see some quality ones, Saint Sputnik has a blog dedicated to these.
Benghazi: While I think everyone is familiar with the Benghazi attacks, newer users might be unaware that one of the victims was Sean "vilerat" Smith, who was a long-time member and moderator of D&D. Seeing cartoonists use the death of a sincerely missed member of the community as a desperate attempt to smear Obama has made Benghazi a rather sore issue for everyone in this thread.
Can't Handle: The thread is known for getting into spats over ridiculous subjects. However, this phrase was used waaaaay too much, and you're not being witty by yelling "Can't Handle!" when people arguing over actual political stuff as opposed to goofy poo poo like weathervanes. Yes, we have actually argued over weathervanes.
DASGC: Stands for "Dumb and so Goddamn Crazy." A cartoon that portrays the opposing side as screaming, ignorant children, and their own side as patient, knowledgeable adults. Based on a Shmorky cartoon.
Don't Be Willfully Dense: A line from cartoonist Eric Allie when someone pointed out how stupid his cartoon was. Has become a thread motto of sorts to not be an idiot when interpreting the message of any given cartoon.
Gerald: A name given to a stock character used in many conservative cartoons. Typically a standard middle-aged white guy with glasses and little hair. Exists only to wryly point out how bad and dumb the strawman of the day is.
It's a Powerful Symbol: Phrase made popular during the short-lived Kelly commentaries. When describing the crying Statue of Liberty, Kelly said "it's a powerful symbol...you don't want to overuse it" when of course the joke is that Liberty is in nearly every Kelly cartoon. Used sarcastically for overused symbolism, especially Liberty but can be anything such as bald eagles or uncle sam.
Nonsense...This Is An Election Year: This phrase comes from a cartoon that was the subject of an Onion article mocking nonsensical political cartoons. Sometimes a person may post this phrase in response to a political cartoon, and that's basically a way of saying "this makes no loving sense."
Pants Donkey: The nickname for a donkey from an old Mike Luckovich cartoon, and is essentially the mascot of the thread at this point. We have no idea why.
PBF: The Perry Bible Fellowship was a webcomic that people frequently over-analyzed, so much to the point that to "PBF" something is to dig way deeper than you were supposed to for a cartoon's meaning.
Skull Donkey: Several cartoonists, including Lisa Benson and Jerry Holbert, draw donkeys in such a way that it's easy to edit their snouts into cartoonish skulls. The golden age of skull edits is long over, but it's still a fun game. An example:

becomes

Wormbama: It was common for Michael Ramirez to draw former President Obama with a weird squished face that resembled a worm. The thread game up with this nickname for the phenomenon.
You Gotta Give Me the Fangs: Another joke from the brief Kelly video series, it references Kelly begging his editor to keep fangs on a Chinese person. Used to describe when a cartoonist is being especially racist with their caricature.
Zionism: Okay, not really unique to this thread, but enough people have asked about it to merit being in here. Zionism, in a very simple definition, is just far-right nationalism for Israel. However, if you are hearing Zionism used in the same context as the Rothschilds or the Illuminati or basically any Dees cartoon, then you're just dealing with antisemitic conspiracy stuff.


Some edits, parodies, and cartoons become quite memorable and frequently requested. Please check out the Politoon Archive first before asking for stuff in the thread. I'll try to remember to use the OP to collect memorable stuff from this year, and then archive it at the end of the year.


Sometimes stuff that starts here gets collected on its own site. Note that several of these sites have stopped updating, but the archives are always fun for a spin.
A Good Cartoon: Saint Sputnik collects the best AGCs here.
Ye Fowl Herald: You know that old medieval tapestry maker thing that was popular on the internet several years ago? Well, Saint Sputnik is using it to recreate Mallard Fillmore strips.
Iran Will Have Nukes Any Day Now: Pants Donkey has collected cartoons that predict the imminent threat of a nuclear Iran. Some of these cartoons are over a decade old.
If Global Warming Is Real, Then Why Is It Cold: A depressing collection of cartoons that display people's complete lack of climate education.
Political PBF: Some unknown genius took old PBF strips and turning them into political cartoons. It's a lot better than it sounds.



The Gay Abortions are our annual awards for the worst cartoons of the year (and the best edits or parodies), named after a hilarious parody cartoon. If you see a cartoon you want to nominate, quote it and include "Gaybies nomination:" and the category you want to nominate it for, so the organizers of the contest have an easy way to track nominations. The current categories are:

  • Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy
  • Worst cartoon about Terrorism
  • Worst Obituary Cartoon
  • Worst Caricature
  • Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon
  • Worst Label
  • Most Incomprehensible
  • Least Concealed Bigotry in a Cartoon
  • Worst "Deep State" Cartoon
  • Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon
  • Most Easily Reinterpreted
  • Most Willfully Dense
  • Worst Gaslighter Cartoon
  • Best Edit/Parody
  • Worst Cartoon about the Election

I've marked new categories in bold.

Please note that "Worst Cartoon about Terrorism" includes mass shootings.

To make the life of the compiler easier, Wiki Sours now has a nominations page as well. Please consider cross-posting your nominations to that page as well!

In December 2020, I (or some other brave soul) will start the Gaybies thread, where we'll collect the various nominations and also take nominations for Worst Overall Political Cartoon 2020.

I'd like more information about the political cartoons I'm reading!

Check out Wiki Sours, the companion wiki to the Politoons thread!

I'm looking for that one cartoon where the Democrats choose someone just left of--

It's Tom the Dancing Bug from May 24, 2019:

SneezeOfTheDecade fucked around with this message at 23:41 on May 2, 2020

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SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
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All credit to Pants Donkey for the OP and this list of headliners! :tipshat:


The cartoonist index! It's a few years old, but still has valuable information. Written by XyloJW, improved by Pants Donkey.

Here's a short list of thread headliners. These people put out content at a regular rate and drive most of the thread's conversations.


Ramirez is, depressingly, the face of American political cartooning. Part of this is because his career has effectively been astroturfed by Fox News and other right wing outlets, who invite him on to tell him how genius his scrawlings are. The other part is how hilariously bad he is at his job: he cannot draw to the point where even people he likes look like flesh monsters. His god-awful caricatures turn people both friend and foe into grotesque horrors better suited for some cheap Lovecraft knockoff comic. His Obama was so bad it was given the nickname "Wormbama" since he turned Obama's head in a weird tube. He also is terrible at visual metaphor, using crosshatching excessively as a crutch. He has a fondness for DEBT cartoons, and largely parrots the establishment Republican talking points. Somehow he has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, rendering the award meaningless for all winners both past, present, and future.


This thread originally spawned from an old mock thread dedicated to solely making fun of Mallard Fillmore. It is technically a comic strip, as it occupies the funny pages daily as opposed to being randomly chosen to end up on the editorial page. While originally having a full cast with stories, Tinsley decided he didn’t need to put in effort and, for about a decade, the strip has consisted of a duck on a white background giving either conservative talking points or ranting about something laughably trivial in Tinsley’s life (he seriously spent a week whining that he got scented candles for Christmas). Ironically, Tinsley may only have a regular career because papers want to appear “balanced” so they can run Doonesbury without getting letters from angry old people. :tinsley:

Note: Bruce has been replaced as the writer and artist of Mallard Fillmore. The going consensus is that his syndicate suspended him after a particularly odious cartoon about Rep. Ilhan Omar last August:



The new author is Loren Fishman, who doesn't get a star yet.


A bigoted rear end in a top hat if there ever was one, Mike Lester will be your tea party host for this thread. He's never found a racist cause he can't jump on, and is always quick to side with the police when a black person dies. He's also profoundly homophobic, as evidenced by this photo of him smugly eating Chick-fil-A when the company was against gay marriage. His art isn't terrible, but it does come off as extremely meanspirited and stupid whenever he's on the attack. If that weren't enough, Lester was also visited by the police some years ago for beating his wife. As a result, he tends to be a tad sensitive when people accuse men of misconduct against women...unless they're democrats, of course.


A celebrated cartoonist, both here and in his career, Bennett is a veteran of the craft and it shows. His artstyle is simple, and he uses it to great effect to draft up excellent visual metaphors that get the point across. Recently, however, Bennett has been in something of a slump. Instead of coming up with funny cartoons that make you go "drat!", he has opted for lower-hanging fruit, tending to sit back and call Republicans crazy and stupid. Basically, his opinions are correct, but they don't really discuss the issues, and they are just different ways of saying "conservatism bad." Which is fine once in a while, but it'd be nice to see something with a bit more substance and relevance to current news as opposed to cartoons you can put out literally any time of the year. Nonetheless, Bennett is a considerable cut above the rest, and every so often you do see that spark that made him a thread favorite.


One of the more loathed persons here, Rall is what happens when you give a person with no talent a platform. I don’t think anyone in this thread is more egotistical than Rall, who sees himself as the champion of far-left causes. His art is horrendous (he defends it with the tired “style” argument), his arguments tend to be contrarian, and he cannot help but make everything about him. Even movements such as Black Lives Matters, where he went on a personal crusade against the LAPD when he got a ticket. He lost, but to this day still rails about it. Rall will typically attack both sides and us, the people, for not rising up against them…until we do, in which case he criticizes the protests (see OWS, various Trump protests). Rall just genuinely sucks and is on the shortlist for being banned from the thread.


Matt Bors is a protege of Rall, and therefore the only good thing I can think off that Rall has produced. A younger cartoonist, Bors tends to come at humor from more of our angle: he goes for meta humor over visual metaphors, multiple panels over single images, and dipping his toes into memes every so often. Unlike a lot of cartoonists, Bors also knows that art is kinda important to the humor, and thus a lot of laughs come from both the facial expressions and the jokes he sets up with them. Bors is also trying to get political cartooning as an actual career you can do without being a legacy cartoonist from 30 years ago. He founded the Nib, which hosts up-and-coming political works, runs books on Kickstarter, and works on collabs with others. Bors is good people.


The cartoonist for the Onion, Kelly is without a doubt the most beloved and cherished cartoonist in the thread. Defying the political spectrum, Kelly operates solely within the boundaries of the original political party: common sense. Once a week, you can rest a bit easier knowing that Kelly knows your pain, be it nagging wives or confusing gizmos. A winner of the Thurston Bronze Quill Award, Kelly is a veteran artist in the industry, employing a more classical style of art that employs old-fashioned materials and know-how. There have been rumors that Kelly is actually just a satire of political cartoons from known has-been and hack, Ward Sutton, but it's safe to assume these are nothing more than jealous lies spread by Sutton and his tasteless followers. So put that out of your mind, pour yourself a whiskey sour (or three), and enjoy the finest political cartoonist of a generation.



John Rose (better known as JRRose!) is probably better known outside this thread as the writer and artist for the venerable newspaper strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith and of the Kids' Home Newspaper. As you might guess from that, Rose's cartoons tend to have padded corners and soft edges; they're rarely incisive, and mostly fall into the "A Thing Happened" category. Rose is conservative, but seems to be the rare "gosh golly all this progress I tell you what" centrist-conservative who really just wants everybody to get along and doesn't understand why everybody's so angry all the time.

Scott Stantis and Eric Allie
Scott Stantis leans to the conservative side of centrism. It's rare to see his work posted here because his political cartoons are almost never national anymore; he almost entirely focuses on Illinois and, specifically, Chicago. He's on this list because he created the nationally-syndicated newspaper comic Prickly City, a Calvin and Hobbes ripoff -inspired strip about a young Latina and an anthropomorphic coyote who live in the desert and nominally represent the conservative and liberal viewpoints, respectively. He's paired with Eric Allie because, although neither of them seem inclined to admit it, Eric Allie's been writing and drawing (well, copy-pasting whenever he can) PC for years. Allie's political cartoons are decidedly more conservative than Stantis's, but despite this, Allie maintains a staunch nothing-matters centrist approach to PC, with the result that the strip itself almost never says anything or comes to any real conclusion.

Ben Garrison
Ben Garrison was once merely a milquetoast conservative, but when his cartoons caught 4chan's eye and they started editing them into Nazi propaganda (earning him the nickname "Zyklon Ben" in the process), he leaned into it full-bore and went full Qanon nutjob. He is among the most reprehensible of the cartoonists regularly posted here, not merely for his views but because he is a propagandist at heart; the more ultra-conservative and Trump-worshiping he is, the more he gets paid, and since ol' Ben loving loves money, he's willing to ram his head hard against the right end of the political spectrum in the hopes of dragging the Overton window with him . He's also well-known for feminizing any man he doesn't like, fetishizing any woman he draws, and drawing Trump like a male model.

Eli Valley
Valley's art is grotesque and resembles woodcut prints; he is an unabashed Jewish leftist and pulls no punches against conservatives and against anti-Semites in particular, and he takes particular delight in pinning anti-Semites who accuse others of antisemitism to the wall. Naturally, he's been called an anti-Semite himself for doing this to conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro, largely by people who don't know how words work.

AF Branco
Where Eli Valley's art is grotesque in an artistic sense, Branco's art is grotesque in an "an elementary-schooler drew this" sense. AF Branco largely shares space on the political spectrum with Ben Garrison, but where Garrison is driven by a love of money, Branco is fueled by pure hatred of anyone even slightly to his left. He's incapable of drawing even the people he likes in an attractive way, and any time Donald Trump shows up in his cartoons, he's presented as Calm Hitler to the liberals' Dumb and So Goddamn Crazy. Branco is also known for publishing on multiple related right-wing websites, although which website gets credit in a given cartoon seems to be purely random without any tie to the subject matter.

Rob Smith, Jr.
Rob Smith is mostly a Twitter cartoonist, and is notable for being just about the dumbest cartoonist to regularly feature in the thread. His claim to fame is getting angry at the post office for not being able to deliver a package that he'd put the wrong address on.

Pat Cross
Pat Cross hates LGBTQ+ people almost as much as he hates abortion. It's a red-letter day when one of his cartoons isn't hate speech.

David Pope
David Pope is an Australian cartoonist, on the political left, and unlike most of the artists in this thread, a skilled caricaturist. Most of his work deals with Australian politics, but occasionally he branches out into global affairs. Published in the Canberra Times.

Stephen Collins
A British cartoonist with a painterly style, Stephen Collins describes his work as "stupid stuff and hopefully lots of animals". He has firmly Good Opinions and is far more concerned than most of the artists in this thread with actually being funny. He eschews single-panel cartoons in favor of long multi-panel strips, but unlike Prickly City and Mallard Fillmore, his strips actually have gags and payoffs. Collins's art has been turned into avatars for many users on these forums.

(Who else should go here?)

SneezeOfTheDecade fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Jun 23, 2020

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I'm honored to be the first person this decade to say "gently caress you, Ted Rall."

Because gently caress you, Ted Rall.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Heyo, I'm here! I may or may not read this thread, I had stopped reading the previous one in mid-December and it seriously improved my day quite a bit, so if I see I'm relapsing I'll just leave here without a fuss.

Clerical Terrors
Apr 24, 2016

I'm so tired, I'm so very tired
I propose we hold a vigil in this thread until Tinsley returns.

oobey
Nov 19, 2002

A dying thread, in a dying forum, for a dying art form. How apropos.

:getin:

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy
Speaking of dying, did we get an awards thread going before the year decade imploded? :v:

Cloud Potato
Jan 9, 2011

"I'm... happy!"
:britain: Happy New Year! :yayclod:

Guardian:

"Rebecca Hendin on 2020 and the climate crisis – Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks became contentious this year as the country faces an unprecedented bushfire crisis"

Telegraph:


Independent:


Times:

Corbyn rebuked as new year address fails to mention election loss

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Oh boy i cant wait to continue being loving infuriated at the scribblings of our greatest minds.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007


:rolleyes:

Apple Pie Hubbub
Feb 14, 2012

Take that, you greedy jerk!

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




Happy new year, everyone.

Also, could we potentially add Eli Valley and Ben Garrison to the cartoonist highlights? For better or worse, they’re two of the most influential ones in the field at the moment... though I totally understand if no one really feels up to doing a write up on them.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Regalingualius posted:

Happy new year, everyone.

Also, could we potentially add Eli Valley and Ben Garrison to the cartoonist highlights? For better or worse, they’re two of the most influential ones in the field at the moment... though I totally understand if no one really feels up to doing a write up on them.

I'd much rather add Ben Garrison's head to the inside of a toilet bowl and then flush it, honestly.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

Starting the year off right :discourse:

Jurgan
May 8, 2007

Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Will you please add a link to the wiki? It was intended to supplant the extremely long OP’s, but everyone seems to forget it exists. https://wikisours.karlstrom.se/wiki/Wiki_Sours

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Pilchenstein posted:

Speaking of dying, did we get an awards thread going before the year decade imploded? :v:

Search has failed us, so I'm scraping the old thread to get the nominations. Once I have that sorted, I'll fire up a Gaybies thread if no one else has gotten around to it.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

Blower thinks this is good.

The Wiggly Wizard
Aug 21, 2008


Besesoth posted:

Search has failed us, so I'm scraping the old thread to get the nominations. Once I have that sorted, I'll fire up a Gaybies thread if no one else has gotten around to it.

Can we still nominate the traditional way?

Spiffster
Oct 7, 2009

I'm good... I Haven't slept for a solid 83 hours, but yeah... I'm good...


Lipstick Apathy
Should I avoid this thread to keep my blood pressure low?

Nonsense this is an election year! :getin:

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

I can make the gay abortions thread, but I'm going to ax like 90% of the categories because this is a ridiculous amount of time and effort spent on political cartoons.

It'll be: Worst Cartoon of the Year, Best Edit of the Year, Worst Cartoon of the Decade (nominees will be from prior Gaybies), Best Edit of the Decade (ditto).

That's it.

Pander
Oct 9, 2007

Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.



Spiffster posted:

Should I avoid this thread to keep my blood pressure low?

Nonsense this is an election year! :getin:

Open the blood pressure gates!

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Pants Donkey posted:

I can make the gay abortions thread, but I'm going to ax like 90% of the categories because this is a ridiculous amount of time and effort spent on political cartoons.

It'll be: Worst Cartoon of the Year, Best Edit of the Year, Worst Cartoon of the Decade (nominees will be from prior Gaybies), Best Edit of the Decade (ditto).

That's it.

"This is a ridiculous amount of time and effort spent on political cartoons" is the gaybies motto.

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

The Wiggly Wizard posted:

Can we still nominate the traditional way?

I don't see why not!


Pants Donkey posted:

I can make the gay abortions thread, but I'm going to ax like 90% of the categories because this is a ridiculous amount of time and effort spent on political cartoons.

It'll be: Worst Cartoon of the Year, Best Edit of the Year, Worst Cartoon of the Decade (nominees will be from prior Gaybies), Best Edit of the Decade (ditto).

That's it.

Please feel free if you want to. :) I'm almost done scraping (it's not a difficult process, I've just got a delay between page fetches so I don't get rate-limited), but I wouldn't mind not having to collate and post. ;)

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
gently caress cops.

Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...

oobey posted:

A dying thread, in a dying forum, for a dying art form. How apropos.

:getin:

On a dying planet, even! :yayclod:

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Ague Proof posted:

Blower thinks this is good.

It's infuriating how much he tows the line. Every other paper at least makes fun at the government's biggest fuckups, but Blower and the Torygraph are near Garrison levels of hero worship.

cant cook creole bream
Aug 15, 2011
I think Fahrenheit is better for weather

This feels weird.

By the way, what strip is your avatar from? She looks so disillusioned. In her Catwoman cosplay.

MrUnderbridge
Jun 25, 2011


You're not just being a tease, are you?

My Face When
Nov 28, 2012

Hide your healthcare.
Hide your wife.


Is that a new strip?

I missed Zelda a lot.

Nea
Feb 28, 2014

Funny Little Guy Aficionado.

Is Zelda back??? :allears:

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


A new political cartoon thread. Has that new “pit of despair and hellish insanity” smell to it. For all the new people who stumble in here for the first time

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Jurgan posted:

Will you please add a link to the wiki? It was intended to supplant the extremely long OP’s, but everyone seems to forget it exists. https://wikisours.karlstrom.se/wiki/Wiki_Sours

Whoops, I missed this entirely. I've added a link, thanks for the reminder!

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

We got Cartoon Sign!

1
You know they were gonna jack over this for a bit.

2
Ugh.

3
The Senate is corrupt and we can naught but drink our woes away.

4
Now remember, not everyone can respond with "Lowtax?"

5
Why the gently caress is Chewie there? He's not even going to be in any major Star Wars media in 2020.

6
It'd be really cool if you actually cared about the rich being above the law, as opposed to just jumping on a bandwagon because one of the Clintons may be involved.

7
Dude even Biden has competitive numbers against Trump.

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012
I can't believe I'm still reading this thread

Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Neopie posted:

Is Zelda back??? :allears:

No, just an old strip I haven't posted before.

itskage
Aug 26, 2003


Vincent Van Goatse posted:

"gently caress you, Ted Rall."







Starting the year off right.

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loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

getting my inaugural post ITT in now while page 1 is still available

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