batshit rightwing cartoons: 2012 and imaginary romney presidency years edition

I live on a different planet than these people

It's been said before on one of the many past threads, but if there is a legitimate reason to look at this stuff beyond wanting to scare yourself (or feel better about yourself), it's that through cartoons you can get a really quick, shorthand glimpse into this alternate universe. No long essays to read, no links to click on, but the simple stipulation "this is intended to be funny" makes you start to realize all the kinds of crap that has to be ASSUMED AS TRUE for the rest to hang together. And indeed..it's a different planet.

People who voted for the re-election of George W. Bush with great enthusiasm, demanding to know how Obama could let Benghazi happen.

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"Biggest story since Watergate"

They're desperate for a smoking gun in the right-wing blogosphere aren't they? It's not enough to hate Obama's policies - he has to be guilty of corruption, impeached, imprisoned. But they keep coming up with nothing. It's like the Clinton years before Lewinsky, only more intense.

DRAWING A SPEECH BUBBLE COMING OUT OF A BUILDING DOES NOT MAKE YOU GARRY TRUDEAU YOU STUPID TWAT

(okay, deep breaths)

That's a building? I thought it was abandoned Donkey Kong.

HALF-BILLION

I do appreciate that he tried ("tried") to render the actual specific NYT building, rather than like a generic skyscraper or something.

Really bugs me how many of these people not only cannot draw but just haven't made the slightest effort to improve. Day By Day has existed for a decade and still looks just as shitty. By contrast, Trudeau made huge strides in the same length of time. I guess the same gripe could apply to a lot of webcomics - something like Sluggy Freelance, which I haven't read regularly in a lonnnnng time, still basically looks like it did in 1998....but it's just a silly gag adventure/soap strip with no pretenses to be delivering THE HARD TRUTHS from a position of moral superiority so maybe I find the simple craft appealing rather than a sign of some sort of hypocrisy between talent and posturing...

A bold departure from his usual strategy of delivering Breitbartish talking points via the medium of bosomy women.

Dudes i can't believe Obama is in with Chinese government banks. Thankfully Romney has the good sense to have never ever done business with China (or Iran for that matter).

Really being a right wing cartoonist seems like the easiest job in the world. The jokes pretty much write themselves don't they?

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they really, really love this angle. Again, it's funny to realize, in Foxland, this is one of Obama's most famous remarks - I strongly doubt how much anybody else has any idea Obama said anything at all along these lines.

I remember it

It was the main laugh-line in Romney's convention speech, in fairness.

"Laugh line it RNC" doesn't really contradict "well-known in Foxland" though.

Yeah, but it suggests it's known outside as well.

i'm am kinda amazed and amused at the ones that try to blast obama's handling of sandy w/ 'SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING'

BRING EM ONNNNN!

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also, apparently the "revenge" thing got really big over those last couple days

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Poor sad white lady.

I don't understand the mitty casey one, is the strap line even a sentence.

Chuck Asay is a dick.

Betmatrho has it wrong. Obama's first name isn't derived from Hebrew (lightning) but from Arabic, meaning 'blessed'. The Hebrew cognate would be Baruch.

>>>I don't understand the mitty casey one, is the strap line even a sentence.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml

Unless you mean that extra 'is' in there, in which case no that's not really a sentence.

The extra 'is' was what I was getting at but the poem reference would still have passed me by, thanks,

Maybe, "There Is No Joy" is some dog-whistle shorthand for Obama, like did he once say something that could be misquoted and misconstrued as saying that America has no joy or something? So, "There Is No Joy" is in Mudville?

By contrast, Trudeau made huge strides in the same length of time.

by hiring assistants to do the actual drawing for him

I don't think it's any deeper than mighty Romney went to bat for conservatives and struck out.

And wtf the incompetent and biased media didn't tell me Romney is rich? Had I only known!

by hiring assistants to do the actual drawing for him

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thought this came more in the late '80s, my bad. Huh. Did I imagine this or is there a decent-looking behind-the-scenes Doonesbury book out now, talking closely with his collaborators and so on?

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zing!

More than the words I am astonished by the weirdness of the drawing in the second panel. How did her head get turned around like that? This is why you don't use Barbies as a reference.

doc c, i'm not sure abt the chronology or whatevs, and like you, wld v much like to read a behind-the-scenes bk abt doonesbury - was just trying to suggest that it's not entirely fair to compare these talentless goons w/ trudeau if only because the poor saps obv can't afford to 'outsource' their work

how about http://www.amazon.com/Doonesbury-G-B-Trudeau-Brian-Walker/dp/0300154275

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this is like those garfield sans garfield strips. People go to the trash, walk away, the trash is there, Obama signs are thrown in the trash. ?_?

xxxpost No, I'll totally concede that. Just, I mean, practice usually makes some kind of difference in this stuff. Thinking also of like, the PVP or Penny Arcade artists, who have gone through a ton of experimentation and tweaking in their style over the same span of time. Actually think both got kind of over-stylized after a certain point but you at least get the sense of people trying hard to improve their techniques. Also speaking as a guy who used to draw a lot of comics purely as a hobby, fell out of it years ago but part of the satisfaction really was looking back over a few years of work and being like, shit, I used to draw like that? Not that I ever necessarily got even as "good" as DBD guy but, y'know.

and that's exactly the Doonesbury book I was thinking of! Will keep my eye out for a super-cheapo copy.

what exactly does "celebrity in chief" mean?

Wow, had no idea that Trudeau had collaborators. Kind of mindblown at the moment. I mean, I know that a bunch cartoonists have them -- does Mort Walker even read Beetle Bailey anymore? -- but assumed Trudeau was a one-man show.

According to Wiki: Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.

I think there have been other assistants, too, and I wonder how 'complete' Trudeau's pencils are

By and large, most American newspaper strip artists have had assistants - producing a daily comic strip is sheer hard work! Schulz is the most famous exception to this

I don't think Scott Adams gets any help. Then again Dilbert doesn't seem awfully hard to make!

Watterson was proudly assistant-free, and took a thinly-veiled dig at Walker, something like "the assistants do all the work, and the person taking the credit is on the golf course."

Scott Adams started getting help for a while when he developed a weird nerve condition in his hand

Berke Breathed presumably assisted by mountains of coke

Breathed used to send his boards via air to the publishing company because he would work so close to deadline and miss the mailing date.

And sometimes, he'd even finish them up on the plane.

Scott Adams started getting help for a while when he developed a weird nerve condition in his hand

hmph, didn't know about this

was about to mention Bill Watterson too, especially since his strip was arguably the one with the most attention to detail (and the best writing by far)

Calvin and Hobbes unquestionably the greatest latter-day newspaper comic

but that's a different thread

already dated

https://twitter.com/LuisCastanon/status/788848438117036033

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BenGarrison Cartoons ‏@GrrrGraphics 31m31 minutes ago
Big #Thank you to Jeff Widener for kind note on Tank Trump Cartoon- respected photographer took "Tank Man" image http://Www.jeffwidener.com

he doesn't seem to provide any more information about the "kind note" - has Widener actually commented on this? is Ben Garrison being trolled by someone pretending to be Jeff Widener? confusing

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what's going on with the octopus holding the hotdog, pizza, pentagram, and three children?

i'm sure there's a logical reason it's there

Podesta pizzagate/spirit cooking refs. Hot dogs were part of the child molestor code iirc

it's all very straightforward really, see here:

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guessing it might actually be time for a new thread at last. the imaginary romney presidency seems so long ago.

Dutifully mentions the Rothschilds in upper left. No Protocols of the Elders of Zion to round things out, though.

I like the way that despite this guy being pro-Trump he is too incompetent a draughtsman to make Trump look like anything other than a witless oaf in all of his cartoons

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crescent roll hair

Looks like S**** A**** now feels emboldened enough to start pushing his political views through his Dilbert comics now.

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Wow. Well, it's about as funny as its ever been...

hoo boy, take that demoCRAPS

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i started a new one, btw!

batshit rightwing cartoons -- 2017 unto eschaton

whoops, i guess that filtered it out. it was a post that simply said at reagan.com

You believe having control of your privacy is important. You also believe Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in your lifetime - a man who honored the Constitution and the Rights expressed therein.

We agree, and that's why we started this company - to give you the privacy you deserve and the ability to share the Reagan name with every email you send.

at 33 bucks a year i admit i'm tempted

i wonder if 'fuckronald' is an available username

give it a shot! my email address was gay✧✧✧@catho✧✧✧.o✧✧ for like a decade. (yes, this was a questionable decision on my part, but it was twenty years ago.)

even better with the email munging

I can usually sort of make out what Ben Garrison is going for in his cartoons, but this one is utterly incomprehensible.

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i... think the idea is that memes are driving the left crazy? And that he is claiming all meme culture on behalf of right wing fucknuts? those big game production right wing ganon-ites are the worst.

ben garrison seems deeper into left wing memes than anyone i know

although, i guess by virtue of being on the batshit rightwing cartoons thread i'm deeper into right wing memes than anyone i know except my dad

how many people who aren't right wing lunatics know any of these?

Explanations needed for....every single one of those

https://grrrgraphics.com/meme-nightmare has links... no, wait, twitter handles

tt cube has a total of 6 videos with the most popular having 22k views.

TDS is Trump Derangement Syndrome, not the nazi podcast.