Hyosho posted:

what happened to that slew of "racism would disappear if all you liberals would just stop talking about it!" cartoons we had a while back?

Hyosho posted:

what happened to that slew of "racism would disappear if all you liberals would just stop talking about it!" cartoons we had a while back?

axolotl farmer posted:

This is Donna Barstow



She makes crap like this:



Somehow she's published in the New Yorker

http://cartoonbox.slate.com/donnabarstow/

raruler posted:

Some Gizmo:

SA Support Robot posted:

This person sent us a nasty email demanding we remove her stolen works from this forum thread. I'll maybe post more details later... I want to see where this goes first after I reply.

Fuego Fish posted:

This is the best thing I've heard all day

edit: posting Donna Barstow's epic work entitled "borat dot gif"

Barstow's blog posted:

This tweet below, from a man who is one of the best selling single-panel cartoonists in the country - his drawings of big nose, big feet, bug eyes, to go with his obvious gags, must please the most obvious editors, obviously.

I do so many tech cartoons, I figure it’s time to get on Twitter and see what it’s all about.

Ya think?

This is why single panel cartoons and magazine cartoons are a dying breed. There are many cartoonists like him, using a style they learned 40 years ago, with the same type of 1950’s humor – ie, puns, a word twist, easy stuff. No thought or research required. Stuck in their own rut, afraid to try anything new. Whatever works, right?

I’m a pragmatic capitalist, so yeah, up to a point.

But it’s not art, and you’re not trying, and you don’t care, and I could never call you a good cartoonist. Even though I wish I had your income.

SA Support Robot posted:

This person sent us a nasty email demanding we remove her stolen works from this forum thread. I'll maybe post more details later... I want to see where this goes first after I reply.

Fuego Fish posted:

This is the best thing I've heard all day

edit: posting Donna Barstow's epic work entitled "borat dot gif"

Saint Sputnik posted:

CUOregoon posted:

new lang

Saint Sputnik posted:

Saint Sputnik posted:

SA Support Robot posted:

this person sent us a nasty email demanding we remove her stolen works from this forum thread. I'll maybe post more details later... I want to see where this goes first after I reply.

her blog posted:

Some good things happened in May, but I can’t think of that many right off the bat. Mostly I was dealing with having my cartoons stolen and used in certain liberal hate websites. I certainly haven’t finished with that yet. And then being called the R word (r-acist) in those hate sites. (I told an editor at the LA Times that this crap had happened and that I was being called the “r” word. He said, “What do you mean?” I blushed a little (even though it was on the phone) and said, “r- acist“, and he said, “Oh. I thought you meant Republican.” Those wacky LA Times editors! Oh, and it was Tony Pierce. )

* I got Wonkette to stop using my cartoons, after weeks of the most vicious, vile, sexist comments there, in the usual spewing Gawker way. Also, their hotlinking is not cool, and is theft of bandwidth. Actually, I notice Wonkette hardly links to anyone. Great, non-2.0, selfish policy you got there, people.

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* I gained 5 pounds this year, which is most decidedly NOT good, and I know it’s because of the stress of adding on political cartoons, and Slate. But I’ve lost one of those pounds, and hope I’m on the way down now.

No X In Nixon posted:

Feinne posted:

The angles in that are just all wrong, it's like H.P. Lovecraft's Laptops in the Witch House.

Barstow posted:

For Illustration Friday, subject: Perspective.

When I first started cartooning I realized that I knew nothing about perspective. I looked at other cartoonists’ work and was amazed at how they had several things in the drawing, all the proper size!

I bought (easy) books, asked people, but most of all I practiced, and studied how other cartoonists did it.

Eventually, I realized that it. doesn’t. matter. But that took years! It’s okay to ad lib, and even better to be spontaneous.

I know there are some artists who naturally think in 3 dimensions. Sculptors, maybe painters, those types of people. But not me. Two dimensions all the way. You could call me Flat Donna, and take me with you wherever you go, and I’d be happy.

I think it was Mick Stevens who drew an amazing desk in one cartoon, all trapezoid, where you could see the whole surface and it was extended all the way towards the bottom.

I’m still trying to draw that desk. This was a good try.

Saint Sputnik posted:

donna barstow is a woman who googles herself obsessively


oh my word no totally not raci-


also from the same entry


ack!

No X In Nixon posted:

an AOL joke in 2010, let that sink in.

handbags at dawn posted:

it's funny because she's doing the same thing on her blog: http://opedcartoons.com/2010/07/11/the-8-oil-spill-cartoons-you-have-to-see/

http://opedcartoons.com/2010/06/16/june-political-cartoons-on-obama-helen-thomas-soccer-and-oil-spill/

http://opedcartoons.com/2010/04/04/editorial-cartoons-for-the-los-angeles-times-opinion-section/

Grave $avings posted:

handbags at dawn posted:

it's funny because she's doing the same thing on her blog: http://opedcartoons.com/2010/07/11/the-8-oil-spill-cartoons-you-have-to-see/

http://opedcartoons.com/2010/06/16/june-political-cartoons-on-obama-helen-thomas-soccer-and-oil-spill/

http://opedcartoons.com/2010/04/04/editorial-cartoons-for-the-los-angeles-times-opinion-section/

her oil cartoons article posted:

Dana Summer’s cartoon of the little Mermaid drowned in oil made me laugh! So much more amusing than dead pelicans, which are WAY overdone, guys, and also very sad.

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I also picked this one by Michael Ramirez, the last fulltime opinion cartoonist for the Times. He actually lives here in SoCal. Did anything happen with Israel this week in the news? I don’t know. I don’t know that much about middle east issues. But I assume Michael does. Sometimes cartoons are used to instruct, or point something out to us, and the Times deserves an international cartoon. I like the design and rhythm in this.

Fish-O posted:

Obv.

Fish-O posted:

Obv.

Toffile posted:

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but I assume Michael does

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(boo, hiss, even though I don’t have all the environmental facts yet. Just because I don’t trust Obama.)

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Since I’m editor here, I shan’t go into my personal stuff – like my car accident, dealing with 2 insurance companies, aftereffects of the accident, a new problem in the car, which wouldn’t start, and now is in the shop for a possible VERY expensive bill, which may or may not be connected to the accident, my dentist as a result of the accident, and the fact that malware infected my computer for 4 days, and completely disabled my internet connection as well as my Task Manager, which I finally eradicated through an antivirus program with the regrettable name of SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition. But it worked. Most of the others wouldn’t.

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I do think (Ted Rall is) super smart and educated, and does some clever cartoons. However, he has the same (only?) flaw as I do: sometimes he tries to make too many points at the same time, kind of jumping around, and not everyone gets convoluted cartoons!. (I’ve seen Ted a few times lately in the LA Times, and even though I live here, I’ve only understood one cartoon out of 4.)

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I also see from these intrepid and hard-working cartoonists that Helen Thomas may have spoken thoughtlessly. I had to look up what the White House Press Corps is – just the reporters who apparently write down every golden word in all the conferences. I didn’t know it was an elite group. Anyway, she said some mean things, and now she’s gone

SA Support Robot posted:

This person sent us a nasty email demanding we remove her stolen works from this forum thread. I'll maybe post more details later... I want to see where this goes first after I reply.

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I didn’t know the games were in Africa until I saw this

axolotl farmer posted:

Just chillin' at the bottom of the ocean, farting unempoyment.