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 Another year passed and another year of horrible cartoons to vote on. Welcome to the Fifth Annual Gay Abortions! Previous Years' Gay Abortions: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mid-term, 2015, 2016 Mid-Term Process: Any poster may submit cartoons until 23:59 EST on January 8th. Please only submit a single cartoon for each category. Please only submit a specific cartoon to a single category, the exception being Overall Worst Cartoon. A post does not require a nominee for each category. Everyone is allowed one post in which to nominate cartoons. If you would like to change your nominees, please edit that post before the deadline on January 8th. Please do not submit anything produced after December 31st of 2016. What was submitted to the Mid-Term Repository will be automatically entered for nomination consideration. Worst Flint Water Crisis Cartoon will be moved to Worst "Tragedy" Cartoon. Worst Clinton 'Scandals' Cartoon will be combined into a new category of Worst 2016 Election Cartoon. 'Nonsense, This Is An Election Year' is getting canned. We tried it last year and ehhhhh... Not all submissions will be in the final lists. Lists will be cut to avoid bloat. If your nomination did not make the list I am sorry. Voting will begin immediately after the submissions are compiled into the post below this one. Voting will last till 23:59 EST on January 15th. The votes will be tallied and results announced as soon as tallying is done. Vote for each category by naming the category and the letter indicating that political cartoon. A template ballot will be provided. Judges: Spiffster and I are this year's tyrannical judges. Koishi Komeiji and Abyssal Squid will be helping with tallying votes. The judges may agree to veto any submission or trim a list if there are too many nominees. Please ask if you have questions about the Gay Abortions Awards or any part of the nomination and voting processes. Rules and Suggestions: Standard D&D rules apply. Please don't quote all the images from a nomination post unless you intend to discuss all them. For discussions about current politics not related to the Awards, please take it to the regular Political Cartoons Thread. Post political cartoons of at least some prominence. Any thread regular or syndicated cartoonist is fine, pulling cartoons from a nobody's DeviantArt account is not. Categories:
-  WinnersWorst Cartoon about Brexit 1st  2nd  Cristina Sampaio won with 30%, taking the lead by just one vote over Kirschen. Worst Cartoon about the Pulse Shooting 1st  2nd  Two week lead, 60 hours research and 38% of the vote gets Tinsley the prize. Summers was not far behind with 31%. Worst 2016 Election Cartoon 1st  2nd   Yeah... Branco gets the award with a whopping 44%. Garrison is second.Worst Cartoon about Gun Control 1st  2nd  Ramirez wins with 32% Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy 1st  2nd  Rall remembers a tragedy from 2015 to remind us of what is really important: Ted Rall can't find work. He got 28% of the vote. Jarlsberg is close behind with 24% Worst Obituary Cartoon 1st  2nd  'Somebody died and young people suck' McKee for 25%. Wise gets 22%. Worst Caricature 1st  2nd  Ramirez drew a jellyfish and called it a man. He got 28%. Kirschen's nightmare Sanders got him 25%. Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon 1st  2nd  Emad Hajjaj with 28%. Ramirez second with 24%. Worst Cartoon about a Movie 1st  2nd  Garrison gets an astounding 73% of the vote for this dreck. Worst Label 1st  2nd  Ramirez wins by 25%. The rest are fairly even with their votes. Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon 1st  2nd  Leak's cartoon was so bad it drew the attention of the HRC and rightly wins with 25%. Gary takes second with 22% Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon 1st  2nd  gently caress you Branco. 38% Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon 1st  2nd  Why even bother filling in the stars all the way? Gary goes for gold with 31% Most Easily Reinterpreted 1st  2nd  The nazi who doesn't want to be called a nazi gets 45%. Tinsley is a distant second. Overall Worst Political Cartoon 1st  2nd  Garrison proves his loathsomeness by taking both first AND second, 21% and 20% respectively. Best Edit/Parody 1st  2nd   World Famous W wins with 36%. Rorus Raz is not far behind with his excellent Kelly edit.Thanks to everyone who participated this year and to the people who helped! See you all next year (if we're all still alive)! We're all going to die World Famous W fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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Worst Cartoon about Brexit: Worst Cartoon about the Pulse Shooting: Worst 2016 Election Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about Gun Control: Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy: Worst Obituary Cartoon: Worst Caricature: Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about a Movie: Worst Label: Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon: Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon: Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon: - Most Easily Reinterpreted: Overall Worst Political Cartoon: Best Edit/Parody: Rorus Raz/rum sodomy Rainbow Dash/Pants Donkey posted:Due to my strong personal convictions, World Famous W fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Worst 2016 Election Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about Gun Control: Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:  Worst Obituary Cartoon: Worst Caricature:  Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:  Worst Cartoon about a Movie: Worst Label: Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:  Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:  Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:  Most Easily Reinterpreted:  Overall Worst Political Cartoon: Best Edit/Parody:  by SexyBlindfold Thanks for doing this again, W. Trogdos! fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Jan 1, 2017 20:06
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Trogdos! posted:Most Easily Reinterpreted: So uh... I've not been in the polititoons thread this last year because it's just too much for me, but given the category, is this cartoon in fact trying to say that the poor put-upon neo-nazis aren't getting a fair shake? Because if so holy poo poo I've never seen such a slam-dunk for this category.
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Mister Adequate posted:So uh... I've not been in the polititoons thread this last year because it's just too much for me, but given the category, is this cartoon in fact trying to say that the poor put-upon neo-nazis aren't getting a fair shake? Because if so holy poo poo I've never seen such a slam-dunk for this category. Yes. Racists get really mad when you call them racists.
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Worst 2016 Election Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about Gun Control: Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:  Worst Obituary Cartoon:  Worst Caricature:  Worst "A Thing Happened' Cartoon:"  Worst Cartoon about a Movie: Worst Label:  Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon: .jpg) Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon:  Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon:  Most Easily Reinterpreted:  Overall Worst Political Cartoon:  Best Edit/Parody: 
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Why is there a category about gun control? Were there really that many cartoons about that this past year?
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Why is there a category about gun control? Were there really that many cartoons about that this past year? It sure as hell was during the extended stint of almost-daily shootings.
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Jan 1, 2017 22:59
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Trogdos! posted:
I don't know, I think it sums up last night rather well.
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Jan 1, 2017 23:28
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Did this happen before Trump started crushing hard on Vlad or something?
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Jan 1, 2017 23:37
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Samurai Sanders posted:Did this happen before Trump started crushing hard on Vlad or something? This was back in June, when Trump tweeted that Hillary got paid to approve a Uranium trade deal with Russia.
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I can't believe I'm only now noticing that Vote D shirt in that Branco.
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Hello. As the author of 'Smartephant and the rear end', I'd just like to say that I get a warm feeling every new year when these awards pop up in the forum. (I've always completely forgotten about them in the meantime.) It's a small, strange, and incidental honour, but an honour nonetheless.
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Jan 2, 2017 02:13
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Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon: This one for sure.
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quote:Someone isn't handling the Clemson loss well.
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Mister Adequate posted:So uh... I've not been in the polititoons thread this last year because it's just too much for me, but given the category, is this cartoon in fact trying to say that the poor put-upon neo-nazis aren't getting a fair shake? Because if so holy poo poo I've never seen such a slam-dunk for this category. Yes, Redpanels is pretty much Nazi propaganda.
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Jan 2, 2017 05:54
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Previous nominees of Worst Caricature have been weird abominations. But this year, would anyone consider going in the other direction with Ben Garrison's Donald Trump, a handsome, not at all flabby, manly man whose mouth certainly doesn't look like a cat anus, as the worst caricature?
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Jan 2, 2017 07:07
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Dr Christmas posted:Previous nominees of Worst Caricature have been weird abominations. But this year, would anyone consider going in the other direction with Ben Garrison's Donald Trump, a handsome, not at all flabby, manly man whose mouth certainly doesn't look like a cat anus, as the worst caricature? By that standard, Bolling's Donald is also in the running for depicting him in an adorable Calvin and Hobbes-style.
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Dr Christmas posted:Previous nominees of Worst Caricature have been weird abominations. But this year, would anyone consider going in the other direction with Ben Garrison's Donald Trump, a handsome, not at all flabby, manly man whose mouth certainly doesn't look like a cat anus, as the worst caricature? I think in 2018 we're definitely going to need a Most Ruggedly Handsome Trump entry - the guy looks like he's going to keel over from a pizza overdose at any second but the right wingers can't draw him unflatteringly because HE'S ON OUR SIDE
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Starshark posted:I think in 2018 we're definitely going to need a Most Ruggedly Handsome Trump entry - the guy looks like he's going to keel over from a pizza overdose at any second but the right wingers can't draw him unflatteringly because HE'S ON OUR SIDE I think we should just put everyone's Trump caricatures into a tournament and have them battle it out.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:I think we should just put everyone's Trump caricatures into a tournament and have them battle it out. My money's on Toles' - you seen how wide he draws that fucker?
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Technowolf posted:
So why are this frenchman and eskimo mad at each other?
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Worst 2016 Election Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about Gun Control: Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy:  Worst Obituary Cartoon:  I don't know if it's actually the worst but it's the one I laughed at the most. Worst Caricature:  Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon:  Worst Cartoon about a Movie: Worst Label:  Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon:  This and this would also be excellent candidates. Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon: Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon: Most Easily Reinterpreted: Overall Worst Political Cartoon: Best Edit/Parody: ajkalan fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Jan 3, 2017 00:59
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I object to that Laziest entry because A. knowing about Bosch requires a least a little investment in art history and B. It is loving rad.
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7c Nickel posted:I object to that Laziest entry because A. knowing about Bosch requires a least a little investment in art history and B. It is loving rad. That's fair, it's mostly here because it was the only cartoon I had bookmarked that fit the category and I'm done looking through terrible cartoons for today. (Also I remember someone else doing this same cartoon earlier in the election?)
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The comic doesn't quite belong, but I gotta say it is seldom so soothing to see a depiction of Hell. It's not the greatest comic in the world but it's the best on the page. Every post should end with a non-excremental comic so we can occasionally give our souls a little rinse while we wade through all this.
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Worst 2016 Election Cartoon It goes without saying that stupid alt-right conspiracy theories were horrible, and were probably responsible for Clinton collapsing on the campaign trail. That she just can't be sick like a normal person without people thinking she has hybrid brain AIDS/cancer and felt compelled to push herself was just vile. Particularly galling when your candidate is a geriatric Homer Simpson. Worst Cartoon about Gun Control  There's something distasteful about making a victim your strawman. Worst Cartoon about a Tragedy  When some cops were killed by a gunman last summer, Gorrell's response was to steal the image of their badge and photoshop over it. This is such an awful, not even half-assed attempt at sympathy that I think it's more disrespectful than no cartoon at all. Worst Obituary Cartoon  This seems to be a thing in modern works, but let it be known: a flaw does not stop existing just because you acknowledged it. Worst Caricature  I don't even know where to begin with this one. It's like a fleshy jellyfish with a label. Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon   Worst Cartoon about a Movie  I swear Payne got paid to make this piece of poo poo. Worst Label  This could have been improved by actually drawing a massive pile of bodies instead of a stupid loving label. But that's why the label is so bad: Stantis doesn't actually care about black people in Chicago. He just wants black people to shut up about police. That's why it's the "worst" label; it shows how little he actually cares about the issue at hand. Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism) in a Cartoon  Jesus. So bad it got mainstream attention. Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon  Most assholes at least put a man in a dress or wig. Branco takes it one step further with this loving...thing. Laziest Non-Gorrell Cartoon  When I first saw the thread a few years ago, I remember the gif of this cartoon being reused. Only fitting the 2016 edition get the nod. Most Easily Reinterpreted  Uh....... Overall Worst Political Cartoon That shitheads like this still have regular, mainstream jobs kinda sums up the mentality of 2016. Best Edit/Parody 
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zyklon ben should get a lifetime achievement award and be retired from competition
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Pants Donkey posted:
Christ. On the one hand, I don't really feel as much like this is "A Thing Happened" as the ones I'd give it to, because it feels like it takes more of a political stance, but its thoughtless, mean-spirited, smarmy, petty, myopic and pointless nature sort of give it that political cartoon infamy. Its somehow got all the vitriol and even less sophistication and effort as that meme your racist uncle shares, but this time as put together by a guy who regularly does that with a Far Side rip-off style. *kisses fingers and immediately begins vomiting* What a fine vintage, this 2016.
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Technowolf posted:
Uh...what the hell was Ramirez trying to say here? At first I thought it was whatever, and then I saw what I'm guessing is supposed to be Uncle Sam bent under Obama, so now I'm confused.
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Mr Interweb posted:Uh...what the hell was Ramirez trying to say here? At first I thought it was whatever, and then I saw what I'm guessing is supposed to be Uncle Sam bent under Obama, so now I'm confused. A bunch of sailors got captured by Iranian coast guards after some dysfunction on their boat made them drift in Iran's territorial waters. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/30/politics/iran-navy-capture-investigation-report/ quote:In a stunning finding, the report said the sailors veered off course almost immediately after heading out to sea and had no idea where they were when a mechanical failure struck one of the boats. Now while the sailors in question were disciplined for the gently caress up, what they were reproached were poor mission planning, poor maintenance, poor knowledge of rules of engagement, and poor conduct while in custody. Editorial cartoonists, however, reproached them not to have fought off the Iranian navy in their crippled boat. Basically Ramirez is saying that Obama is a dog-eating surrender monkey.
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Jan 3, 2017 15:51
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I may add more later, but I just spent an hour of my morning searching for this. Best Edit/Parody: 
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Syfe posted:I may add more later, but I just spent an hour of my morning searching for this. Beat me to finding it.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Why is there a category about gun control? Were there really that many cartoons about that this past year? Ragnar34 posted:Every post should end with a non-excremental comic so we can occasionally give our souls a little rinse while we wade through all this. World Famous W fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: Worst Cartoon about a Movie:  Worst Label:  Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT) in a Cartoon: 
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Jan 3, 2017 22:54
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Holy poo poo that Leslie Jones cartoon. Reminder that Milo basically called her ugly and a bunch of racist poo poo and had his followers threaten her with violence and racist language for her vile actions of supporting a movie she was in. But yeah, she's the crazy one and he's the above it all badass.
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Jan 4, 2017 01:55
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Cat Mattress posted:A bunch of sailors got captured by Iranian coast guards after some dysfunction on their boat made them drift in Iran's territorial waters. No, no. I'm aware of that incident. What I'm confused about is Obama on his knees surrendering, but ALSO Uncle Sam underneath him (getting sodomized, I'm assuming).
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Mr Interweb posted:No, no. I'm aware of that incident. What I'm confused about is Obama on his knees surrendering, but ALSO Uncle Sam underneath him (getting sodomized, I'm assuming). I don't think Obama's in that picture. I saw some of the same thing as you, but I think it's just a trick of perspective. Sam's legs are spread wide, and his coattails are going in a different direction than his pants, so it looks like two different people but it's not really.
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