abigserve posted:

for reference, several videos have emerged on mainstream media (think about that) of firies calling out the PM for being a fuckwit while literally fighting a bushfire.

These comics are signalling for the greenies-are-behind-it-all chuds

Cat Mattress posted:

Also I'm the royal crown on the Eagle representing the USA. I though it was a Republic, Garrison, what happened to that? You'd rather have a monarchy, now? Huh.

Amoeba102 posted:

Also note that the animals lifting the log are a cat and a fox, introduced predators. They are lifting the log to get at the animals hiding underneath it.

SimonChris posted:

China is demanding an apology from Denmark for this outrageous cartoon.

SimonChris posted:

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200128/china-demands-apology-over-danish-newspapers-cartoon-flag-insult

Jyllands-Posten seems to have talent for making super tame drawings that somehow provoke international outrage.

Sandpuppy posted:

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1231972713574653952

Wipfmetz posted:

Yeah, but how many people actually believe that? It must be like the religion of the spaghetti monster: most are in for ~irony~.

Xander77 posted:

Odds of the cartoonist actually having even the vaguest clue re: what Adam Smith actually ever wrote.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Leak, Son of Leak:

there wolf posted:

THIS IS NOT A JOB MCNAUGHTON PAINTING! That's why it makes no sense, because an actual artist painted this instead of a hack who never met a metaphor he couldn't belabor to the point of comedy.

The painting is called Hanky Panky and it's by a queer Cree artist called Kent Monkman. It's supposed to be about the failure of the justice system in dealing with the insane amount of sexual violence first nation's women in Canada face. In general, a lot of his work deals with colonialism, gender, sexuality, and the interrogation and deconstruction of classical Western art. The sexualized and stereotypical figure in the center is Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkman's alter ego who shows up in a lot of his paintings. I dig this one, Trapper's Bride


Monkman's work is pretty provocative and Hanky Panky in particular is down right controversial, so if it leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth that's probably valid. But it's art that makes you think about why it bothers you, and that's more than McNaughton has ever been able to achieve.

cheetah7071 posted:

I step away from this thread for a few days and come back wondering what kind of crazy cartoons must be happening

not a single one that represents the reality of the situation. Not one that even comes close to having a take on the events that are actually happening

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Given that he was very obviously very ill, I'm saving my piss for the graves of the Stantises and Ramirezes of the world. At least he's at peace, I hope his cats are looked after.

MrUnderbridge posted:

So did the occupant.



And according to the gossip sheets, so did his wife. Like, really well.

MokBa posted:

there wolf posted:

Ugh, insomnia strikes again. I read that whole thing about mental health as a joke the first time around because of how patently ludicrous it is.

By popular demand posted:

Seems like that after the first response stage no one had grossly hosed up execpt for the US.

Sandpuppy posted:

5

Vib Rib posted:

I'm too brain poisoned from this thread. I have to assume this cartoon was in favor of the man, pointing out how hard he'd struggled and fought and sacrificed to reach this point only to be told to slow down just when it was in his grasp. But after so many AGCs and open spite I could also read it as "well if he was more slow and didn't rush he wouldn't have gotten hurt!"

Wikipedia posted:

Mauldin was not without his detractors. His images—which often parodied the Army's spit-shine and obedience-to-orders-without-question policy—offended some officers. After a Mauldin cartoon ridiculed Third Army commander General George Patton's decree that all soldiers be clean-shaven at all times—even in combat—Patton called Mauldin an "unpatriotic anarchist" and threatened to "throw [his] rear end in jail" and ban Stars and Stripes from his command. General Dwight Eisenhower, Patton's superior, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone; he felt the cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations. "Stars and Stripes is the soldiers' paper," he told him, "and we won't interfere."[10]

In a 1989 interview, Mauldin said, "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.[11]

Mauldin's cartoons made him a hero to the common soldier. GIs often credited him with helping them to get through the rigors of the war. His credibility with the common soldier increased in September 1943, when he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino.[4] By the end of the war he received the Legion of Merit for his cartoons. Mauldin wanted Willie and Joe to be killed on the last day of combat, but Stars and Stripes dissuaded him.[6]

Pants Donkey posted:

Jesus Christ

SubG posted:

The Anti-Masonic Party was a single-issue conspiracy theory, the outlines of which everyone is probably already familiar with: a secret cabal of Masons is secretly controlling everything from behind the scenes, and the Anti-Masons would...???. In addition to conspiracy theories and right-wing reactionary politics, the Anti-Masonic Party's durable contribution to modern political life is the nominating convention. Prior to their introduction of nominating conventions, the party (whichever party) would largely just line up behind a chosen candidate and demonstrate party unity. But to a wild-eyed Anti-Mason that looked an awful lot like a Masonic conspiracy, so they decided to select candidates by publicly ranting insane garbage at each other until consensus is reached, the process used by the major parties today. The first presidential candidate they selected by this process was William Wirt, a second degree Freemason.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

3

Trapezium Dave posted:

First Dog on the Moon: It seems everyone is 'fleeing to the regions' (aka a fleechange lol)

Six-Of-Hearts posted:

Saying a prayer for all you regulars of this thread today and in the next month.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Pope:

Education minister Dan Tehan. One of the signature policy changes in the new budget is reworking university funding, and one of the signature changes in that is an attempt to kill off humanity courses by making them ludicrously expensive.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

3

UZworm posted:

I'm happy that everyone cheering on the MAS win is also specifically calling out Elon Musk

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

He deleted it but this is a real tweet