Political Cartoons XIII: The GOP Strikes Back

[classical_hero]

 

[_random_]

Dark.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Love it

 

[Agent327]

Politics must be slow these days...

 

[Mise]

Very dark, but yeah, "good day to bury bad news" indeed.

 

[Arakhor]

The political bias of the cartoon was pretty obvious if you read the headlines. The image would have worked just as well without leading headlines.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

In before weather does not = climate.

Yeah, a winter that lasts until April is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

 

[Tee Kay]

Here we've got a summer that lasts until April.

So boo.

 

[Daedwartin]

Here we've got a summer that lasts until April.

So boo.

The point where the dimensions of Pain and Death intersects geographically with Earth does not count for the purpose of debating when winter ends in the northern hemisphere.

 

[choxorn]

The political bias of the cartoon was pretty obvious if you read the headlines. The image would have worked just as well without leading headlines.

True. Or, heck, one about abortion and one about drones, or the NDAA, or something.

 

[dragonprobably]

Instead of giving us news that matter, give us some bullcrap about celebrities we don't care about.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[dragonprobably]

Why are the Bushes invisible?

 

[Tee Kay]

Trudeau depicts RL politicians as symbols.

According to Wiki

During his term as Vice President, George H. W. Bush was first depicted as completely invisible, his words emanating from a little “voice box” in the air. This was originally a reference to the man’s perceived low profile and his denials of knowledge of the Iran-Contra Affair.

George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop the same invisible point, because he was Governor of Texas prior to his presidency (Trudeau accused him of being “all hat and no cattle”, reiterating the characterization of Bush by columnist Molly Ivins). The point became a giant asterisk (a la Roger Maris) following the 2000 presidential elections and the controversy over vote-counting. Later, President Bush’s hat was changed to a Roman military helmet (again, atop an asterisk) representing imperialism. Towards the end of his first term, the helmet became battered, with the gilt work starting to come off and with clumps of bristles missing from the top. By late 2008, the helmet had been dented almost beyond recognition.

 

[Cutlass]

The cartoonist never directly pictures real people. Except sometimes face obscured. And as Tailless says, with certain people he replaces a picture of them with a symbol representing them, or nothing at all.

 

[dragonprobably]

Trudeau depicts RL politicians as symbols.

The cartoonist never directly pictures real people. Except sometimes face obscured. And as Tailless says, with certain people he replaces a picture of them with a symbol representing them, or nothing at all.

That is actually pretty original. Very different from what I'm used to, which is abstractist charictures. Maybe I'm just used to that because the only political cartoonist I follow is Gerald Scarfe.

 

[Ailedhoo]

 

[Daedwartin]

that is definately not up to date. North Korea has China as among the states against it now.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Define "against". China is certainly not throwing Kim under the bus.

(No, he's not dead.)

 

[CocoIsKing28]

Jesus, that last one terrified me.