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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

(Original image courtesy of escapegoat; font is Action Man)

Welcome to the 2021 Political Cartoons Award Thread!
The Kellies (previously known as the Gaybies) are our annual celebration of the best and worst in political cartooning.

The initial purpose of this thread is to collect any nominations not made in the original thread (I will gather go back and gather all the previous nominations). Please read the 2021 thread and share your nominations here. Feel free to discuss your nominations and reasoning. You don't have to nominate in every category, and comics can be nominated in multiple categories at once.

New This Year: Kelly's Kommandos
I need volunteers to help get wiki sours up to date. Let me know if you can help with adding material to the wiki; it's a big task, so I'm looking to split it up and do it in phases. Members of the Kelly Kommando Kre- uh, I mean, the people who help out will get a free forums upgrade of your choice.

Nominees
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Prizes

:siren:Voting on all parts ends Midnight, April 23!:siren:

Previous Years' Awards threads:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Mid-term, 2015, 2016 Mid-Term, 2016, 2017 Mid-term, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Nomination Deadline
Nominations close on March 4. After that point I will restructure the thread for voting, listing all currently nominated comics. Voting will be easy: all nominees will have an alphanumeric code. Just pick your preferred winner in each category you want to vote in, and post the code.

Nomination Rules and Suggestions
  • Feel free to discuss your nominations and reasoning.
  • Don't quote all the images from a nomination post unless you intend to discuss all of them.
  • Only nominate cartoons that were published in 2021.
  • It's okay to nominate a comic for multiple categories.
  • Post any new nominations in new posts. This ensures I do not miss them.
  • If multiple people nominate a comic for a given category, the first nominator is considered the official one.
  • Only submit one nomination per category in this thread.
The Kings of Kelly
The creator of the winning “Best Edit/Parody" and the user with the most winning nominations will both receive a forums upgrade of their choice.

Special K Awards
Please inform me of any cartoonists who have retired or died in 2021. Additionally, mention any “lifetime achievement” or similar awards you believe should go out.

Kellies Kategories
Note I may condense or expand categories based on nominations received.
  • Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon
  • Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon
  • Best AGC Interpretation
  • Best Edit/Parody
  • Best Overall
  • Laziest Non-Gorrell
  • Least Concealed Bigotry (General)
  • Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+)
  • Least Concealed Bigotry (Race)
  • Most Easily Reinterpreted
  • Most Hypocritical Combo
  • Most Incomprehensible
  • Most Willfully Dense
  • Overall Worst
  • Worst Caricature
  • Worst Cartoon About a Tragedy
  • Worst Concern Trolling
  • Worst Gaslighting
  • Worst Label
  • Worst Obituary

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:07 on May 16, 2022

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Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
Whoops, Prizes are now thisaway!

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:05 on May 16, 2022

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
C'mon buster, are you Rob Smith Jr. or something? I already said the prizes are thisaway!

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:06 on May 16, 2022

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe
OK so "Most Incomprehensible" is Sinfest (all of it) right? Is there anybody else that even comes close?

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

readingatwork posted:

OK so "Most Incomprehensible" is Sinfest (all of it) right? Is there anybody else that even comes close?

Yer gonna have to pick one, and be sure it's nominated.

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Most Easily Reinterpreted


Best Cartoon

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
God drat it, I had thought the search function indexing error was fixed. The in-thread search still doesn't index text within tags, meaning anyone who, for example, bolded the word "nomination" wasn't getting caught up in my search and indexing. I'm going to have to manually search all 500 pages of the previous year's thread. This may cause some additional delays. It also means we have a lot more nominees than previously anticipated.

Progress report: having had to almost restart from scratch, I am 20% of the way through.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Feb 6, 2022

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
You use a spreadsheet right? I could probably whip up some vba to automate your process somewhat. But I'm not sure exactly what your process is.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

You use a spreadsheet right? I could probably whip up some vba to automate your process somewhat. But I'm not sure exactly what your process is.

I use a spreadsheet and tabulation that can partially auto-format the input into the structure of the nominations post. I'll probably stick with what I've got for this year, then I'd be grateful if I can share it with you and we can see how it may be improved.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Sure thing.

I have an idea (which is now half-materialised because I was bored this morning) for extracting the data at least. The human input is:

1. Open page of thread
2. Ctrl+U, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C (i.e. view page source, copy all of it to the clipboard)
3. Click button in spreadsheet

And then a bunch of code mines the data for nominations, providing usernames, post content, image links etc etc.

You could even automate those 3 steps with... er... i forget the name of the software but it allows you to script keypresses etc.

If you send me what you got so far I might even be able to provide something later today (I am ill, so I'm sitting around at home doing nothing). Otherwise, I will await next time :)

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
We're almost ready for voting to begin! However, we currently have very few nominees in the following kategories- they're all right on the border at present.

Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon
Best AGC Interpretation
Best Overall
Worst Obituary



To keep them viable, please nominate additional cartoons from these kategories. You can nominate cartoons by PMing me, or by posting here - don't worry about making sure your nominations are unique, I'll handle that.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 24, 2022

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
Kellies Voting: Part 1

It begins! We have too many nominees, and too many comments about the nominees (see: Garrison), so I have to split voting into three sets. Voting on this set of nominees will continue until March 13.

How to vote
Each category has a letter or letter combo, and each cartoon has a number.
Make a post with the number of each entry you're voting for and what category it's in. I'll take either the letter or the category name.
You get one vote per category, and you do not have to vote in all categories. If you want to change your vote or add a vote in a category you haven't already voted in, please edit your existing post!

Prizes
The creator of the winning "Best Edit/Parody" and the user with the most winning nominations will both receive a forums upgrade of their choice! The first person to nominate a cartoon gets credit.

Kellies Kategories and Nominees
Notes: I removed or condensed a couple categories because they got no or only one nomination. Listed dates are posting date for the image. Unless otherwise stated, any text following a nominee is context from its original posting or nomination -either commentary from the thread and the nominator, or an accompanying statement by the artist.

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon

A-1 Michael Ramirez, 3/10/2021


A-2 Steve Kelley, 3/13/2021


A-3 Mark Knight, 4/27/2021


A-4 Joe Heller, 5/1/2021


A-5 Steve Breen, 5/9/2021


A-6 Ben Garrison, 6/10/2021

quote:

CICADAS FOR THE WIN!

Cicadas have been in the news recently. Once every seventeen years, the cicadas hatch and emerge to enjoy the summer. The insects lay their eggs, die off, and begin the seventeen year cycle anew.

This year they are ready to rumble. They don’t call them the “17” year cicada for nothing.

The cicadas know Biden is a weak, illegitimate president who is part of a regime determined to convert America into a globalist, Marxist, disaster. A few days ago a cicada swam took out the Biden press plane as they flew into the engines, delaying the fight to Europe.

Then as the Cheater in Chief was giving his departure speech, a kamikaze cicada hit Biden in the neck causing him to squeal to the press, “A Big Bug just got me.”

It is reassuring to know our insect friends are red pilled!

GRRRTeam

quote:

I don't get the 17 in quotes. Or really most of that rant.

quote:

Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet

A-7 Al Goodwyn, 6/25/2021


A-8 Robert Ariail, 7/21/2021


A-9 Rob Smith Jr., 7/28/2021

quote:

So I'm not misreading that cartoon, a sports team name change is likend to the slaughter of the native Americans?

We might have to split the racism Kellies to racial categories to keep up with all the poo poo takes.

quote:

I love how Rob Smith Junior still can't resist adding a loving feather to the baseball player who he's supposedly honoring.

quote:

"Changing the name of a baseball team and not using a racist caricature as a mascot is just as bad as killing that race"- A white man

A-10 Dana Summers, 7/31/2021


A-11 Michael Ramirez, 9/3/2021


A-12 Michael Ramirez, 10/13/2021

quote:

RAIDERS™ RAIDE

A-13 Tom Stiglich, 12/19/2021


A-14 Michael Ramirez, 12/27/2021

quote:

Wtf So let's break this one down. They discovered a fossilised egg with a dinosaur in it. So, 2022 is the egg here, it was... going to hatch the radical left? (I thought the radical left won when Biden won but let's ignore that for the moment). So the radical left was going to come to prominence in 2022 (how?!? Are they expected to sweep the midterms?) but some outside force (not pictured or labelled) is putting a stop to it and the radical left will be dead forever. Either that or 2022 is going to safely contain the radical left forever, as containing things forever is something that eggs famously do instead of incubating them until they're ready to come out



Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon
AD-15 Christian Adams, 5/27/2021


AD-16 Steve Breen, 7/21/2021

quote:

God drat. Did Breen see Gorrell's comic and panic? Because this is some first class phoning it in.

AD-17 Michael Ramirez, 10/27/2021




Best AGC Interpretation
BAGC-18 HootTheOwl, 7/14/2021

quote:

The terrorism inside Afghanistan is still secured by a deadbolt and it's own lock. Only someone from the outside could release it. AGC.

quote:

Regarding

BAGC-19 Brawnfire, 7/16/2021

quote:

Racism is as real and important a force in our lives as buoyancy is to a swimmer

Teaching people intelligent interaction with these forces instead of wild thrashing will save their lives

AGC?

quote:

Regarding

BAGC-20 Michael Ramirez, 11/10/2021

quote:

U.S. Border security lets in anything white without an issue, showing it’s racial bias. AGC

quote:




Least Concealed Bigotry (general)
BG-21 Loren Fishman, 9/28/2021

[vox sez: nominated for “Least Concealed Bigotry (Defending Nazis)”]

BG-22 Joel Pett, 7/29/2021

[vox sez: nominated for “Least Concealed Bigotry (gender)”]

quote:

I interpreted it three times before I finally settled on the meaning I think it's supposed to have

The first: Guy on the right is really happy he can gently caress without having kids
The second: Guy is really happy this will make women he doesn't like sterile
The (probably) actual interpretation: Guy is happy it will make pro-vaxxers sterile

It's just a bad loving comic no matter how you slice it

quote:

I think you're wrong on all tries, or at least the last one. No one who says ""what if the vaccine makes me sterile?"" aloud is or ever has been or will be pro-vaccine. The woman in the cartoon is a solid pro-pandemiccer and the man, confusingly, wishes her belief was true so that she couldn't have progeny and not vaccinate them. Which is a paradox, because if she won't have the vaccine then she won't become sterile.

At least there's a good doggy. Who's a good doggy? Yes, you are! Yes you ARE!

BG-23 Gary Varvel, 12/8/2021

[vox sez: nominated for “Least Concealed Bigotry (gender)”]

BG-24 Michael Ramirez, 8/20/2021

[vox sez: nominated for “Least Concealed Bigotry (Jingoism)”]


Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+)
BLGBT-25 Gary McCoy, 1/27/2021

quote:

Get hosed forever McCoy. Also the loving gall of this rear end in a top hat whining about rubber stamping EOs after four years of Trump. Maybe don’t mention penmanship class in your cartoon if your own writing consists of barely legible squiggles. Also I know "don't touch the poop" is an (un?) official thread rule, but I went looking for this shitbag to tell him to go gently caress himself to his face. He's on twitter, but his entire feed consists of bot posts about how many people followed and unfollowed him on a given day; his political cartoons are not on Gocomics; and I tracked down his syndication page, on which this strip and several others have exactly zero comments. Is this guy published anywhere? Because I'm getting some real strong "shouting slurs into the void" vibes from him. (Also gently caress you again. Just for good measure.)

BLGBT-26 Tony Branco, 1/31/2021

quote:

Women athletes are apparently scrawny waifs. You know Branco is definitely watching a lot of women’s athletics.

BLGBT-27 Pat Cross, 1/31/2021

quote:

Cancel Culture doesn’t actually silence anyone, so bigots can stop whining about it.

BLGBT-28 Ben Garrison, 2/28/2021

quote:

Okay, so, new Garrison, and holy gently caress is it transphobic.

quote:

THERE ARE TWO GENDERS, MALE AND FEMALE. THAT IS ALL- CLAIMS OF ANYTHING ELSE IS MENTAL ILLNESS Senator Rand Paul questioned health nominee Rachel Levine on the process of gender ‘reassignment.’ Only there is no such thing as reassignment.

Wishful thinking and medical mutilation won’t change the fundamental DNA structure that resides in every cell of our bodies. Our sex is part of who we are—not an ‘assignment.’

One’s sex cannot be changed. Neither by means of surgery, nor hormones.

Yet for some reason we live in an age where the ’trans’ delusion is getting ’normalized.’ Wishful thinking is now considered science. We can’t debate the issue without being smeared as a hater or ’transphobic.’ Transgender people are the new sacred cows. One can no longer reasonably question the delusion. Government said so. Stooges representing science said so. Biden said so. Burly boys can claim to be girls and compete alongside them in sporting events—and they usually win. They also get to go into the girls’ locker rooms and we’re not supposed to question that, either.

As a libertarian I don’t care if men and women think they can transmogrify into the opposite sex. If they are adults and not hurting others, that’s their business. I do have a problem when it comes to minors wanting trans surgery and big government overruling parents who don’t want their kids mutilated. Teenagers aren’t mature enough to make such a life-changing and irreversible decision. It’s also why I don’t think children should be allowed to vote. They lack life experience and will usually vote for socialism and free stuff.

Senator Paul knows it’s impossible to ’transition’ from one sex to the opposite and he asked Levine simple and straightforward questions about whether we should allow children to make decisions that have permanent and major health implications—both mental and physical. Levine dithered. Paul finally stated it as clearly as he could:

“I’m alarmed that you’re not willing to say absolutely that minors shouldn’t be making decisions to amputate their breasts or to amputate their genitalia. For most of our history, we have believed that minors don’t have full rights and that parents need to be involved, so I’m alarmed that you won’t say with certainty that minors should not have the ability to make the decision to take hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life. Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?”

Levine still refused to answer the question and repeated “her” memorized statement:

“Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field. And if confirmed to the position of Assistant Secretary of Health, I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of this field.”

It’s not a complex and nuanced field. It’s not medicine. It’s doing harm to the bodies of children and doctors are supposed to do no harm. Why wouldn’t she answer the question? Her disingenuous response disqualifies her from office.

Paul was quickly attacked as being transphobic. We aren’t supposed to question the supposed science behind transgenderism because the trans people’s feelings might get hurt. To protect their feelings, any criticism of the transgender fad is labeled as ‘hate speech.’ Trans people have become a special caste and immune from any criticism whatsoever. A book that explained the transgender delusion was recently removed from Amazon. They said the book was ‘hate speech.’ This type of online book burning sets a very dangerous precedent.

We must be able to criticize government officials regardless of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. We must be able to debate and ask questions without fear of getting cancelled by identity politics.

—Ben Garrison

quote:

I think this might be the grossest Garrison I've ever seen.

And of course the usual irony of talking smack about Amazon (and not for the good reasons) just before an Amazon referral link.

quote:

I'm so tired.

quote:

nope. my brain just refused to process this poo poo, I'm taking the day off.

quote:

Since he compared banning hate speech to book burnings, I am compelled to point out that one of the things the nazis destroyed in their actual book burning ceremonies was the entire body of research on trans people and gender dysphoria that existed at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft

BLGBT-29 Gary Varvel, 3/3/2021

quote:

Oh no, my butt gender!

(And yes, you absolutely apologize to Rockwell for using his work to peddle bigotry, rear end in a top hat.)

quote:


BLGBT-30 Tony Branco, 3/30/2021

quote:

I had no idea what this is referring to, as the only thing I can find about $630 million is it going towards environmental items such as parks and then towards the arts. I had to visit a right-wing site to see that arts bit includes LGBT PEOPLE DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to find two beehives to wear over my chest because I’m very current with the latest in transgender fashion.

quote:

Hell yeah. I love how all these people tell on themselves by drawing the US taxpayer as a tubby white guy probably 10-15 years younger than they are and with a fuller head of hair, but always in male boomer fashion favorites like t-shirts tucked into jeans or the khakis/polo combo.

BLGBT-31 Steve Kelley, 5/28/2021

quote:

Also Worst Opposite of Reality

BLGBT-32 Michael Ramirez, 6/24/2021

quote:

For those who don’t know, Ratjen refers to Heinrich Ratjen, an intersex man who was AFAB due to some confusion regarding identifying his genitals. He went on to compete in the women’s team Olympics, and this was rescinded when everything came to light. I am using male pronouns as Ratjen seemed comfortable identifying as a male, but this all happened nearly 100 years ago so who knows. He did identify as a man until his death, so I’ll go off that. He later tried spinning his story as the Nazis forcing him to compete on the women’s team to defeat Jewish competition to avoid embarrassing Hitler’s regime, but seems to just be a fabrication…that got used as the basis of a movie in 2009!

No idea how much Ramirez knows about Ratjen, but this could go from “gently caress you” from thinking trans people approve of that whole situation, or “gently caress yooooooooou” for thinking trans people would approve a literal Nazi plot to cheat against Jewish people. Considering he likely saw the movie, gently caress yooooooooou, Ramirez.

quote:

"Trans women could destroy my schlubby rear end" - Michael Ramirez

quote:

Ramirez must be terribly insecure in his masculinity to be this scared of burly, strong women.

quote:

Ramirez is unfamiliar with weight classes.

BLGBT-33 Gary Varvel, 6/30/2021


BLGBT-34 Mike Lester, 7/7/2021


BLGBT-35 Tatsuya Ishida, 7/10/2021

quote:

"Okay here we go."

BLGBT-36 Chip Bok, 7/23/2021

quote:

And this is a good time as any to point out the Wi Spa thing was a transphobic hoax done by a woman who was later found out to be closely associated with the Heritage Foundation. I know I'm going to sound crazy now, but it was literally a false flag designed to specifically target trans women and paint them as predators to advance the chud agenda.

quote:

It's also as good a time as any to remind you that the Wi Spa thing involved armed right wing gangs attacking people: https://twitter.com/TinaDesireeBerg/status/1411770220683792385 https://twitter.com/VPS_Reports/status/1411370746622791682

BLGBT-37 Michael Ramirez, 8/16/2021


BLGBT-38 Tony Branco, 10/18/2021

quote:

New Teacher The Left wants to indoctrinate our kids with radical Ideas about sex and pornography.

quote:

My high school didn't offer Gay Sex Role Play so I took Latin instead.

BLGBT-39 Tony Branco, 10/23/2021

quote:

Bombshells Eat your heart out China, You may have your first Hypersonic missile but we have a transgender 4-star general.

quote:

Don't be so quick to dismiss this as transphobia. That's a pretty racist caricature as well.

BLGBT-40 Mike Lester, 10/27/2021

quote:

Wow gently caress you Lester you transphobic bigot

BLGBT-41 Scott Stantis, 10/23/2021

quote:

While I'm sure it doesn't have much of a chance at year's end, something about this one really pisses me off more than a load of more overtly offensive ones, so I don't want to see it passed over.

quote:

I love how Stantis actually brings up ignoring the AIDS epidemic and tries to follow it up with ""But on balance""

Like, even if you ignore the horrifying politics surrounding the decision, over 700,000 people have died in the US alone, many of these deaths could have been prevented if decisive action had been taken early on.
The fact that he actively ignored the epidemic is already unforgivable.

But when you look at the politics you realize that he and the other higher ups seriously hoped that the epidemic would be the answer to gays existing.
They wanted AIDS to kill off the gay community, so they stood by and did nothing.
So, to put this simply:

You can't balance out genocide you gently caress!

BLGBT-42 Gary Varvel, 12/27/2021

quote:

Tatsuya Ishida's last Patreon supporter.

BLGBT-43 Pat Cross, 12/30/2021




…whew. Time for a palate cleanser, with Best Overall
BO-44 Kevin Necessary, 3/23/2021

quote:

[vox sez: nominated for best (gutpunch)]

BO-45 Stan Kelly, 6/17/2021

quote:

"Prize Fighter"

BO-46 Tony Branco, 7/20/2021

quote:

Vacation!
Taking a short summer break… I’ll be back right around the 27th. Please check out the numerous cartoon in the archives. Till then God bless!

BO-47 Clay Bennett, 9/5/2021


BO-48 Rob Rogers, 6/12/2021

quote:

Goddamn



Sorry, but now it’s time for Least Concealed Bigotry (race)
BR-49 Gary McCoy, 1/5/2021

quote:

5 days…

BR-50 Tony Branco, 3/4/2021

quote:

Custody Battle: Biden immigration policies would not help protect children from human trafficking at the border.

BR-51 Bruce Tinsley, 3/7/2021

quote:

gently caress me more papers need to fire this dude

BR-52 Michael Ramirez, 3/7/2021

quote:

I actually muttered "mother fucker" when I saw this, die in agony Ramirez

quote:

I didn't know illegal immigration from USA to Mexico was such a phenomenon.

BR-53 Ben Garrison, 3/13/2021

quote:

George Floyd had a violent, drug-riddled criminal history. He was convicted of armed robbery and served time in prison. Big and muscular, he worked as a bouncer at a Minneapolis night club.

Still, when I saw him trapped under the knee of a cop and begging for mercy, I was outraged. Clearly the police officer had choked Floyd to death. I drew a cartoon to express my disgust. I thought it was an open and shut case—shocking police brutality, then murder.

Yet at the time I didn’t know the entire story. Tucker Carlson recently showed additional video footage on his program. Something was clearly wrong with Floyd as he sat in his car and begged not to be shot. He was already panicking before the police laid a finger on him. The cops calmly promised they wouldn’t shoot him—they simply wanted to question him for passing a counterfeit bill. Floyd kept begging for mercy and the police eventually asked him if he was ‘on’ something. It was that obvious. It was unlikely Floyd was even fit to drive.

As it turned out, Floyd had a tremendous amount of Fentanyl in his body, along with methamphetamine. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid drug known to be very dangerous. Most of it is produced in China and shipped to America via Mexico.

To my surprise, the police officer was using acceptable and department-approved procedure with his knee maneuver. Supposedly it was ’safe.’ That strikes me as absurd, but a drug addled Floyd could easily have died from Fentanyl. The stress he was under probably triggered life-ending symptoms.

Here are symptoms of a Fentanyl overdose:

Low blood pressure
Drowsiness
Dizziness
Limp body
Slowed or stopped breathing
Decreased heart rate
Reduced or loss of consciousness
Coma

Of course, the left and their ‘fact checking’ sites will tell us drugs had nothing to do with Floyd’s death. His martyrdom must be protected! The socialists used Floyd’s death to incite the BLM and Antifa to burn, loot, and destroy cities across America last summer. We were told Floyd was a saint, a great father, and an all-around exemplary human being. Clearly he wasn’t the latter, but regardless, he didn’t deserve to die in the street in such a manner. The City of Minneapolis admitted this when they awarded Floyd’s family a record $27 million payout.

If the police officer is found not guilty, look for the socialists to go on a violent rampage once again.

quote:

Goddamn, Ben coming out swinging for the racist fences on this one

quote:

loving die, dude: you are scum.

BR-54 Steve Kelley, 3/14/2021

quote:

I know, compared to so many others, this one is minor, but "Meghan deserved everything she got" is a pretty awful take.

BR-55 David Hitch, 3/14/2021


BR-56 Bob Gorrell, 4/6/2021

quote:

"Reforms."

BR-57 Lisa Benson, 4/7/2021


BR-58 Chip Bok, 4/14/2021

quote:

gently caress YOU you racist shithead

BR-59 Michael Ramirez, 4/15/2021

quote:

Oh look, the fire Ramirez needs to die in.

quote:

Great loving timing on this one today, Ramirez.

quote:

Also the really strong implication that young Black children are disconnected from their communities and that Black people aren't thinking through their actions

gently caress that Ramirez is really, really bad

quote:

okay, im officially in ""if i see Ramirez in real life i dont think i could stop myself from beating the poo poo out of him until someone physically pulls me off of him."" territory

Like.. didnt the kid literally get shot because he did the hands up when he was told hands up

BR-60 Mike Lester, 4/19/2021

quote:

I don't think it's going to beat out Ramirez, since Lester is only good at beating his wife, but it's still a contender.

quote:

1) The only reason Lester cares about the detention and abuse of Uighurs in China is because it's a way for him to say China Bad. If it were happening in any other country he wouldn't give a poo poo about a Muslim population being oppressed.
2) Note the bartender, who is Black-coded and is playing the role of ""background character who agrees with Lester and is looking into the camera to indicate this"". (Lester often includes this character in his cartoons; when he's talking about race the character is almost always Black or Black-coded.)
3) Note the difference in skin tones between the first and second speakers; the second is clearly meant to be Standard White Person, and the first is... :chloe:

quote:

Holy poo poo, gently caress you Lester.

quote:

I can only read that Lester as "THIS IS WHAT CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY BELIEVE". We're led to think he's a hypocrite liberal, but this is just face value conservative gatekeeping.

quote:

He's going for a double ""You're the real racist.""

Hypocritical libs and black people are both the Real Racists because they both think that slavery only ever happened to Africans.
It's on the same Greatest Hits album as ""Actually, the Africans are the ones who were doing the most selling other Africans to the whites"" and ""Irish people can't be racist because they were also slaves""

BR-61 Tony Branco, 4/21/2021

quote:

Jesus Christ these people are just reveling in any excuse to be racist.

quote:

Also allow me to say gently caress you Branco, you racist turd

quote:

Really not sure how Maxine Water's comments impacted the trial as the jury was supposed to be sequestered in the first place. But yes, thank you for acknowledging all of this was because of someone kneeling on another person's neck, you racist piece of poo poo. I can only hope that you suffer a karmic death at the hands of the police you love so much.

BR-62 Tony Branco, 5/9/2021

quote:

Lifeline Alert!
Some feel Maxine Waters and Biden are guilty of jury tampering during the Chauvin trial.

quote:

You gotta give me the empty thought balloon!

quote:

Branco is the one person that I can say with absolute certainty that he loving hates the people he draws, with every fiber of his being. It's practically oozing out of the jpeg.

BR-63 Tony Branco, 5/10/2021

quote:

Immigrating Masochists
Despite being such a racist white supremacy nation millions of people of color still want to live here.

quote:

The Worst Concealed Racism/Bigotry award is simply called the Branco because goddamn

Also gently caress YOU Branco

BR-64 Bob Gorrell, 5/18/2021


BR-65 Mike Lester, 5/18/2021


BR-66 Bruce Tinsley, 6/13/2021

quote:

gently caress off. I wonder who thinks that Latines are good for just those two occupations, Tinsley?

quote:

Now, now. Tinsley certainly believes that there are many jobs that Hispanic immigrants can hold: MS-13 mule, MS-13 lookout, MS-13 thug, MS-13 assassin…

BR-67 Tony Branco, 7/31/2021

quote:

Superspreader In Chief
Biden’s open border policy has become a major superspreader event while he imposes more restrictions on American citizens.

BR-68 David Horsey, 8/21/2021

quote:

Just now, the news media and Congress are obsessed with the images of a chaotic American retreat from Afghanistan, but, if the only lesson Americans learn from the nation’s longest war is that the exit needed to be better planned, we may be doomed to repeat this 20-year tragedy.

The larger lesson should have been learned in Vietnam when so many of our political leaders, foreign policy experts and military commanders let a limited mission expand into an attempt to build a Jeffersonian Democracy in a foreign land caught up in civil war. In Vietnam, we thought throwing enough money and troops at the problem would, eventually, fix it. It did not work there and it did not work in Afghanistan.

A very poor, tribal land like Afghanistan was never a very good prospect for nation building and all the hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into that country failed to create a sustainable, modern democracy. What that vast flood of money did do was fuel massive corruption among the ruling elite, including the president who recently fled the capital, Kabul, reportedly with an enormous cache of cash.

Our high-tech, superbly-trained military is the envy of the world, but, as one former state department official observed recently, over two decades our troops fought the same war 20 times. Commanders would rotate in and out every year, each one claiming to have made progress but, in reality, having merely engaged in another 12-month game of cat and mouse with the Taliban.

And the Taliban, like the Viet Cong, were fighting on their own turf, prepared for a generational battle. They simply had to wait until Americans got weary of the fight and departed. Unless the United States is prepared to act like a classical empire and impose its will by maintaining permanent hegemony in far flung regions of the world, this will always be the result.

It is hubris and folly to believe that American wealth and power can always achieve any starry-eyed mission that our leaders and experts concoct. From Ronald Reagan through the administrations of the next six presidents, the U.S. has meddled in Afghanistan, usually with idealistic intentions. There were some successes, like the killing of Osama bin Laden, but the biggest social reform — the partial emancipation of Afghani women — was totally dependent on the U.S. military presence and the other supposed achievement — the creation of a large, modernized Afghan army — evaporated as soon as American advisors and air power were withdrawn.

At last, we have a president who has recognized that we cannot do for the Afghanis what they will not do for themselves. If Joe Biden deserves blame for the messiness of this moment, he also deserves credit for seeing the hard truth more clearly than his predecessors and then acting upon it.

quote:

I think you need the accompanying rant to really emphasis the racism. Upon first look, I thought the backwards country statement was just something the imperialists would say, and not a sincere belief held by Horsey.

BR-69 Robert Ariail, 8/24/2021


BR-70 Yaakov Kirschen, 8/28/2021

quote:

Seriously, holy gently caress

BR-71 Jeff Danziger, 9/10/2021

quote:

Haha, look at these whacky middle easterners bringing their livestock to the meeting and demanding a woman serve them.

BR-72 Tony Branco, 9/10/2021

quote:

Flight Risk Biden in allowing thousands of unvetted Afghan refugees into the U.S. including possible future terrorists.

BR-73 Ben Garrison, 9/20/2021

quote:

STOLEN ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

As the invasion worsens along our southern border, Joe Biden took decisive action. He went back on vacation.

Joe and his Marxist masters are intentionally destroying America in order to build it back better. How do thousands of Haitian poor achieve that? It’s unlikely they’re doctors, lawyers, or educators. It’s more likely they are criminals, gang members, or people here to collect free stuff.

We are supposed to be a country of laws and we lave immigration laws, but Biden and his operatives refuse to enforce the laws of the Constitution. Instead they operate their spin machine and tell us everything in just fine. Biden did that in Afghanistan and now he’s doing it here by refusing to allow drone coverage of the invasion.

Where will this invasion head next? Certainly, they won’t be camping out on the White House lawn. More likely you’ll see them in your neighborhood. Look for crime to skyrocket.

quote:

Well, at least the mask is fully off now?

quote:

Well, Garrison just went full "Camp of the Saints".

BR-74 Tony Branco, 9/22/2021

quote:

Breaking and Entering
Trump left a secure border that Biden has turned into a complete disaster.

BR-75 Michael Ramirez, 9/23/2021

quote:

It’s always easy to tell when Ramirez is super mad about something. In this case…refugees.

BR-76 Gary Varvel, 9/24/2021

quote:

Why is that bad, Varvel?

quote:

Did he not label the bottom of florida because that has immigration he's okay with

BR-77 Michael Ramirez, 10/10/2021

quote:

Jesus Christ :stonk:

quote:

This is some Uncle Ruckus level racial self loathing, godDAMN.

quote:

Looking forward to Ramirez' 4th of july cartoon where he will tackle all the evil poo poo that USA did.

quote:

This picture but its columbus cutting off native americans hands because he thought he was god

quote:

Christopher Columbus, noted for his complete lack of murder.

quote:

I reflexively stuck my middle finger at my monitor upon seeing this.

quote:

Holy shiiit if there was ever a reason for him to get the gently caress fired out of a cannon.

Also, Christians are probably the last people who would benefit if we started to showcase cultures solely from their worst sides.

BR-78 Tom Stiglich, 11/25/2021

quote:

Yeah, is that comic literally just "oh you think white people are the big threat? Wrong!! What about black people?! They're way more scary and dangerous!"

BR-79 Tony Branco, 12/9/2021

quote:

Georgia 22 On Her Mind Stacey Abrams lied when she says she accepted the 2018 Georgia Governor’s race as she tries for 2022.

quote:

Because holy poo poo.



Worst Caricature
C-80 Chip Bok, 3/10/2021


C-81 Mike Shelton, 4/1/2021

quote:

What the gently caress is that?

C-82 Jeff Danziger, 4/11/2021

quote:

C'mon! Tucker is literally the Platonic ideal of "gormless white man". How could you gently caress that up?

C-83 Steve Kelley, 4/17/2021

quote:

I know that Court Packing isn't supposed to be anybody specific, but goddamn, those eyes gotta count for something.

C-84 Tony Branco, 4/21/2021

quote:

Jesus Christ these people are just reveling in any excuse to be racist.

quote:

Also allow me to say gently caress you Branco, you racist turd

quote:

Really not sure how Maxine Water's comments impacted the trial as the jury was supposed to be sequestered in the first place. But yes, thank you for acknowledging all of this was because of someone kneeling on another person's neck, you racist piece of poo poo. I can only hope that you suffer a karmic death at the hands of the police you love so much.

C-85 Steve Kelley, 4/30/2021

quote:

(Kamala Harris)

quote:

I just noticed she's the same colour as the cupboards. Cupboards aren't normally green either but, being made of wood, I bet they're often brown.

Somehow that particular brown ended up a green across the whole panel. :iiam:


E: also the woman has no right arm. That coffee mug, along with some fingertips (:stonk:), is just hovering

quote:

You mean to say, she's not an olive cylinder with doopy eyes? Yeah, I concur. Kellies nomination: worst caricature

C-86 Tony Branco, 5/9/2021

quote:

Lifeline Alert!
Some feel Maxine Waters and Biden are guilty of jury tampering during the Chauvin trial.

quote:

You gotta give me the empty thought balloon!

quote:

Branco is the one person that I can say with absolute certainty that he loving hates the people he draws, with every fiber of his being. It's practically oozing out of the jpeg.

C-87 Jeff Danziger, 5/19/2021

quote:

My brain keeps interpreting that "Kavanaugh" as a weird caricature of a Chinese mandarin or something.

C-88 Tony Branco, 5/20/2021

quote:

Stand Your Ground Many on the like Tlaib of the Squad and the MS Media are screaming at Israel to ceasefire while Hamas continues to fire rockets at their populated cities.

quote:

I feel like half the time Branco should be excluded from that category in the same way Gorrell is from the laziness one given how he intentionally draws everyone he doesn't like as ugly as possible

C-89 Mike Luckovich, 6/4/2021

quote:

How can a professional artist be so absolutely terrible at their job that they don't know what a loving scythe looks like? The grim reaper with his big, curved scythe is one of the most iconic images imaginable. How do you even screw that up?

quote:

I found the reference:

C-90 Jeff Stahler, 6/15/2021

quote:

For Europe

quote:

I MEAN LOOK AT IT https://i.imgur.com/2jtd8gs.png

quote:

This is a big day for the Secretly Enormous Faroes

quote:

As someone living in Scotland, I really can't agree with anyone who doesn't think a trench 30 miles wide shouldn't be dug across the border line. Hell, we'll even take it on our side - we'd be sinking half our Tories into the sea.

C-91 Ted Rall, 7/2/2021

quote:

The Truth is In Here: The US intelligence community released its long-awaited UFO Report confirming that a series of mysterious flying objects have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades and that they might not be of known terrestrial origin.

quote:

That is a real bad gillian anderson.

C-92 Michael Ramirez, 9/4/2021

quote:

Because what the hell is this?

quote:

the longer i read through this thread and browse through the comics en masse, the more all these ridiculously garish caricature styles start to blur together and i start to see the entire medium of political cartoons as engaged in a sort of visual/mental revelatory degeneration

it's like that artist that did self-portraits that got wackier and more abstractly garish as he succumbed to alzheimers


it's like the slow vortex of boomer brainwormdom as the medium cranks smoke and starts dying like a fat star

C-93 Tony Branco, 11/4/2021

quote:

[for Boris Johnson]

quote:

Sleepy Joe Duty
Biden, again, makes a mess of things on the world stage all while falling asleep.

C-94 Ted Rall, 11/15/2021

quote:

AOC

C-95 Michael Ramirez, 12/3/2021

quote:

some iteration of Sleeping Venus.




Worst Concern Trolling
CT-96 Mike Lester, 6/5/2021

quote:

I know that isn't a category, but I'm suggesting it should be if we're going to keep getting poo poo like this.

CT-97 Michael Ramirez, 6/9/2021

quote:

Because I'm determined to make this a category :arghfist::saddowns:
And also because you know Ramirez already has a dozen unnecessary crosshatches ready to go about how owning guns is cool and necessary and endorsed by White Baby Jesus himself.

CT-98 Mike Lester, 7/7/2021


CT-99 Mike Lester, 9/16/2021

quote:

No, I'm pretty sure conservatives suddenly care about racism now, for real. Let's hear them out!

CT-100 Loren Fishman, 9/21/2021


CT-101 Henry Payne, 10/2/2021


CT-102 Michael Ramirez, 10/3/2021

quote:

Yes Ramirez, because you cared so much when this was happening under Bush, Obama, and Trump. loving hack

quote:

It's even worse than that because his argument is that occupying Afghanistan forever would be more humane somehow

As though we wouldn't keep murdering kids and aid workers with drone strikes anyway, in addition to the troops on the ground raping and murdering civilians with that personal touch

CT-103 Chip Bok, 12/8/2021

quote:

Ah, yes, the clever strategy of fighting systemic racial injustice by kowtowing to the system that created it. How’s that panning out for you, an Asian person in the United States, right now, during the Covid pandemic? Ohh...
Also was the plan to wheel yourself back all the way from the school, or just sit there outside all day?

quote:

Holy poo poo I guess :tinsley: isn't the only one using this dumbass talking point anymore.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Apr 7, 2022

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Worst "A thing happened": A-6
Worst "Two Things Happened": AD-17
Best AGC: BAGC-19
Least Concealed Bigotry (General): BG-21
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-41
Best Overall: BO-47
Least Concealed Biogtry (Race): BR-62
Worst Caricature: C-80
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-101

I Am Just a Box
Jul 20, 2011
I belong here. I contain only inanimate objects. Nothing is amiss.

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: 14
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): 33
Best Overall: 44
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): 59
Worst Caricature: 82
Worst Concern Trolling: 96

Technowolf
Nov 4, 2009




Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: 9
Best AGC Interpretation: 20
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): 21
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): 26
Best Overall: 48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): 55
Worst Caricature: 82
Worst Concern Trolling: 102

Skios
Oct 1, 2021
A-14
BAGC-20
BG-23
BLGBT-42
BO-48
BR-77
C-80
CT-103

God-drat, the LGBT+ bigotry category alone is the most competitive it has been for years.

bartok
May 10, 2006



Especially vile crop of poo poo cartoons this year.

A-9
BAGC-20
BLGBT-41
BO-48
BR-77
C-94
CT-102

Twelve by Pies
May 4, 2012

Again a very likpatous story
A-13

AD-16

BAGC-19

BG-22

BLGBT-38

BO-48

BR-77

C-80

CT-96

Some comments: Worst "A Thing Happened" I almost gave to the Rob Smith Jr. cartoon, but it at least took effort to draw that lovely racist thing, and it took effort to spin "Cleveland baseball team changes name" into that loving thing. Stiglich though took no effort. Draw a Santa face, slap an "OMICRON" on it, done by 10 AM.

Worst LGBT+ bigotry cartoon was a hard choice, there were some especially vile contenders. That specific Branco won out for me not only for its gross depiction of trans women (which was in many of the other ones) but also for pushing the lie of "trans activists showing school children gay porn" poo poo.

Least concealed bigotry (race) was also a really loving hard choice, I was prepared to give it to McCoy right off the bat for that Stacey Abrams caricature, then I saw the Ramirez about "burning and looting" and went "nothing can possibly beat this one." And then I saw the Indigenous People's Day cartoon and it was no contest, at least burning a police station is a thing one could be mad about regardless of the context. But getting mad at honoring native peoples and responding by portraying them as violent savages? That's some loving racism right there.

Rampant Dwickery
Nov 12, 2011

Comfy and cozy.
A-9

AD-16

BAGC-20

BG-24

BLGBT-28
but holy poo poo that's a tight race

BO-48

BR-55
, but 50, 59, and 77 come REAL goddamn close in a cesspit of worthwhile contenders. gently caress you, Branco, and fuuuuuuck you, Ramirez.

C-87 because wait is that actually supposed to be Kavanagh?!

CT-101 even if I want desperately to give it to 98 for also being an especially vile representative of the BLGBT pool.

Ambitious Spider
Feb 13, 2012



Lipstick Apathy
A-14
AD-16
BAGC-18
BG-22
BLGBT-36
BO-45
BR-61
C-86
CT-101

some very tough choices this year

Barrel Cactaur
Oct 6, 2021

A-6 for being very unhinged about a thing that happened, also superman posing flys
AD- 16 because that's just lazy
BAGC-20 though 18 is a contender
BG-22 for being the quantum superposition of all bad takes
BLGBT-28 :gop: the lifetime achievement award goes to Garrison
BO-45 :rubby: Weak nominations
BR-68 "actually we needed to try imperialism harder":shepicide: (this category honestly needs a domestic and foreign split)
C-92 Wave a pen at a page and end up with """""""ART"""""""
CT-101 Pet issue, and one of the few bad takes not eligible in a different category

Kevino07
Oct 16, 2008
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon - A2
Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon AD-16
Best AGC Interpretation BAGC-20
Least Concealed Bigotry (general) BG-22
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+) BLGBT-28
Best Overall BO-48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race) BR-77
Worst Caricature C-84
Worst Concern Trolling CT-101

ajkalan
Aug 17, 2011

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: A-7
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): BG-23
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-40
Best Overall: BO-48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): BR-61
Worst Caricature: C-86
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-96

Ragnar34
Oct 10, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
A-9 - Others are lazier, others are even less important, but this gets my pick for being especially racist. It could have made multiple categories.
AD-16 - Gorrell tier.
BAGC-20 - A correct response to Ramirez ramping it up especially hard these days. Nice work on those wood textures though.
BG-22 - (Kramer-slides in out of nowhere with some incel poo poo)
BLGBT - Too close to pick. I hope Hell is real.
BO-48 - The strongest and clearest nominee even if it's not all that original, but shout-out to that metal as gently caress drawing of death. And Benson, that is a copy of your best comic ever and it's a pretty anemic adaptation for this metaphor. What happened to you, man?
BR-78 - Stiff competition, but I'm picking this one just because I'm pretty sure he's implying that the newscaster and the suspect are the same person. That nose is practically copypasted. It's also possible Stiglich can't draw more than one black man, tbf.
C-92 - stick to wood, Ramirez. That's not even a person.
CT-103 - Blatant erasure of the history of civil rights agitation. But you're right, we're still fighting -- "Chinese virus," anyone?

Ramirez is Branco levels of human garbage this year. Obviously he's always been, but now he's being open about it. It's like he lost interest in the veneer of respectability.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Ragnar34 posted:


Ramirez is Branco levels of human garbage this year. Obviously he's always been, but now he's being open about it. It's like he lost interest in the veneer of respectability.

I can't go back and check atm, but fwiw I think Ramirez has consistently won the racist and worst overall categories in a number of years. Whatever his other output, he seems to produce something absolutely rage-inducing a couple of times a year.

No.1 Special
Apr 4, 2011
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: A-9
Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon: AD-16
Best AGC Interpretation: BAGC-19
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): BG-23
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-28
Best Overall: BO-48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): BR-79
Worst Caricature: C-86
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-98

Holy poo poo. There were some close ones.

Teketeketeketeke
Mar 11, 2007


Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: A-7
Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon: AD-16
Best AGC Interpretation: BAGC-19
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): BG-23
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-38
Best Overall: BO-48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): BR-77 ..... FUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU RAMIREZ (couldn't decide between 59 and 77)
Worst Caricature: C-86
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-101

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.
A-9
AD-16
BAGC-19 Brawnfire
BG-24
BLGBT-31
But also gently caress Stantis for "But on balance, it's cool that Reagan let gay people die of AIDS, because money is more important than human lives"
BO-45 Venerated Iconoclasts
BR-59
C-82
CT-103

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Separating the Worst LGBTphobic from Worst Racism was a really good idea, thanks.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

DalaranJ posted:

Separating the Worst LGBTphobic from Worst Racism was a really good idea, thanks.

Thanks! I did it based on number of nominations, there were only a couple sexism nominations, so I put those in a generic category.

I welcome any feedback, especially critical, on how the Kellies are being run.

Gen. Ripper
Jan 12, 2013


A-13
AD-15
BAGC-20
BG-23
BLGBT-33
BO-48
BR-77
C-82
CT-102

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
A-1
AD-16
BAGC-20
BG-23
BLGBT-33
BO-45
BR-59
C-94
CT-101

Kaza42
Oct 3, 2013

Blood and Souls and all that
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon
A-7

Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon
AD-17

Best AGC Interpretation
BAGC-19

Least Concealed Bigotry (General)
BG-23

Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+)
BLGBT-36

Best Overall
BO-45

Least Concealed Bigotry (Race)
BR-59

Worst Caricature
C-88

Worst Concern Trolling
CT-96

Tevery Best
Oct 11, 2013

Hewlo Furriend
A-9
AD-16
BAGC-20
BG-24
BLGBT-38
BR-50, Branco is immensely strong in this category, but it might end up splitting his vote!
C-87. Danziger's drawings barely resemble people and I was of the opinion that his art is some of the worst in the thread for months now. He is, amongst the cartoonists whose works do not get your blood pressure up too far, by far the worst in the thread.
CT-97

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Tevery Best posted:

Danziger's drawings barely resemble people and I was of the opinion that his art is some of the worst in the thread for months now. He is, amongst the cartoonists whose works do not get your blood pressure up too far, by far the worst in the thread.

I've actually looked into him a bit and will share some background as part of the Kellies this year.

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level
A-11

AD-16

BAGC-20

BG-24

BLGBT-39 - This was a very full category (with lots of honestly quite similar comics) but I'll give it to this one because it's like a literal version of what the "JDAMs are such a gemeni thing!" meme was parodying.

BO-47

BR-79 Lots of choice here, but this one is some A Wyatt Mann poo poo (along with trying to "both sides" the big lie)

C-94

CT-101

Raised By Birds
May 5, 2013
A-14

AD-16

BAGC-20

BG-23

BLGBT-28

BO-48

BR-59

C-87

CT-103

Gonna echo the sentiment that the BLGBT and BR categories had a lot of contenders. Unfortunately.

ZeeToo
Feb 20, 2008

I'm a kitty!
Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: A-11
Best AGC Interpretation: B-18
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): BG-22
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-27 (wow, seriously, gently caress this one, I'd forgottne)
Best Overall: BO-47
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): BR-49
Worst Caricature: C-81
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-96

barometz
Feb 14, 2010
Worst "A Thing Happened" cartoon: A-1 – There are probably worse from a triviality standpoint, but, eh… if nothing else, I doubt Harry pronounces 'duty' the American way.

Worst "Two Things Happened" cartoon: AD-17 – I'm actually kind of surprised that this is the only one of these here.

Best AGC interpretation: BAGC-18 – Locks. How do they work?

Least concealed bigotry (general): BG-22 – Seriously, she's not even doing anything for him to be whinging about. Beyond existing, at any rate.

Least concealed bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-38 – Wait, this isn't the one I nominated. See, I told you that Prickly City wouldn't have much chance, even if it still raises the bile inside of me. When it comes to 'least concealed' though, Branco just crams everything and the kitchen sink into this one, giving it the edge (for lack of a better word) over the rest of this poo poo.

Best overall: BO-48

Least concealed bigotry (race): BR-61 – A difficult choice, but this one here, god, it so heavy handed it's like a parody.

Worst caricature: C-80 – Ramirez and Rall seem like easy mode here, so I figured I'd opt for something different. I'm not sure which caricature we're meant to be referring to here (I assume Oprah's), but they're all dreadful in some capacity.

Worst concern trolling: CT-102 – Another difficult choice. I kept being tempted by the Lesters but nearly went for that Bok at the end. Instead we're getting Ramirez for basically the reasons mentioned in the nom.

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KennyMan666
May 27, 2010

The Saga

Okay yeah there are multiple ones here I had multiple choices for but I don't want to look at these horrors any more

Worst "A Thing Happened" Cartoon: A-7
Worst "Two Things Happened" Cartoon: AD-16
Best AGC Interpretation: BAGC-18
Least Concealed Bigotry (general): BG-23
Least Concealed Bigotry (LGBT+): BLGBT-38
Best Overall: BO-48
Least Concealed Bigotry (race): BR-77
Worst Caricature: C-86
Worst Concern Trolling: CT-102

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