Ted Rall Makes More Enemies

Not that I'm going to vote for dubya.

no, it's a much more evil message than that. it's a complete lie. the message is clearly meant to be read as, "THEY deserve it because THEY flew those planes into our buildings." which of course they didn't actually do. that higgins cartoon is pretty much the entire lie of the iraq war laid bare.

I'm also bothered by the image of the kids in the Higgins cartoon. It's attempts to assert poignance and innocence, but stop me if I'm wrong -- don't Iraqis have children too?

I never heard of Rall before today. Reading this thread it seems he doesn't come across too well. I was searching to see if anyone had read this book

http://www.amazon.com/Silk-Road-Ruin-Central-Middle/dp/1561634549

maybe he's a better writer than cartoonist?

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/trall/2007/trall071022.gif
....

chortle

And now he might as well be Kelly at the Onion:

http://opinion.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c7de353ef0147e26e56ae970b-500wi

Wow the one posted above that is disgusting. I've got friends in Iraq who are most definitely not stupid. Of course he gives the idiot at the end an "I heart sports" shirt, as though sports fans are dumb lol. Is there a level of satire that I'm not picking up here or is he really this terrible?

He is really this terrible.

Yeah, I just read the whole thread. He writes (and draws) like a 13 year old with big "problems with the world" (aka things that Ted Rall dislikes). I know because this is EXACTLY the sort of thing I would have done as a 13-year old cartoonist when I drew comics for my middle school; just like, "here's my viewpoint and I don't care if it is correct"

I think I was 16 or 17 when I kind of had an epiphany, that a cartoonist's job is always to make the material FUNNY first and make your point second, because it's hard to really tie the things together sometimes and everyone's just going to disagree with you anyway. That's where I had heard of Ted Rall; he sued some cartoonist who pulled a prank on him for $1.5 million and the guy ended up really suffering, which seemed just like a shit thing to do to someone in the same line of work as you. I made a comic about Rall comparing him to Jim Davis, basically saying that Garfield is written by making jokes about pretty broad personality traits (Garfield is fat, lazy, always hungry, cruel, etc., Jon is a loser, etc. etc.), and that in the end Davis could do a political comic strip as well as Rall could do one, or that Rall was barely qualified to write Garfield, I really can't remember...have to dig that one up.

There was some mention of Tom Tomorrow...I was a big fan of his in the pre-Bush era. Since then he's gotten a lot angrier and progressively less funny; satire turned into ranting. I wonder what he's up to these days. Maybe (as suggested) the Bush era just kind of took all the urge to just be funny and start getting angry, which is death for a political cartoonist.

Will THIS finally put paid to the guy. (It's the preceding editors' note that needs the focus here.)

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-lapd-crosswalk-tickets-20150511-story.html

Checking in:

http://rall.com/comic/bernie-sanders-endorsed-hillary-clinton

http://22i18l42a516x0glw28vyk8x4k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/7-15-16-768x580.jpg

After a hard-fought primary campaign, Bernie Sanders capitulated and endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton for the presidency. In the final analysis, Clinton gave up little more than lip service to Bernie’s agenda of a $15 minimum wage, free college tuition at public universities, and universal healthcare. To the contrary, Clinton is now moving to the right, considering a general as vice president and asking the platform committee not to oppose the TPP free trade agreement.

http://rall.com/comic/pokemon-go-hillary-trump

http://22i18l42a516x0glw28vyk8x4k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/7-19-16.jpg

The video game sensation “Pokemon Go” has led players to weird places like the National Holocaust Museum, Rikers Island prison in New York, and even drug sales locations. Hey, maybe this app can be used to do good!

http://22i18l42a516x0glw28vyk8x4k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/7-25-16.jpg

http://rall.com/comic/hillary-clinton-a-disaster-for-democrats

The party candidate isn’t true to its basic principles, lies, is ruthless, breaks the law and has record-high disapproval ratings in the polls. How the hell did America’s oldest political party wind up with such a terrible candidate? Easy: they plotted and schemed.

http://rall.com/comic/hillary-clinton-lesser-evilism

http://22i18l42a516x0glw28vyk8x4k.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/7-27-16.jpg

The 2016 Democratic national convention is being highlighted by the discussion over whether or not to vote for Hillary Clinton as a so-called lesser evil.” Even if you don’t like her or her policies, mainstream Democrats say, it’s important to vote for her because otherwise, Donald Trump will be elected and he will be worse. But what happens if, in the next election, Donald Trump runs against someone worse than Donald Trump? Would Donald Trump be the best choice then? If so, why would be unjustified to vote for him now?

i don't think the moral of that is the one he intends.

this guy is prob my least favorite cartoonist in the world, comparing him to jim davis is an insult to davis

like even apart from his obnoxious views and weirdly high opinion of himself his style is just ugly and unappealing and incompetent

that's true of 99% of contemporary political cartoonists

it's really not. it's almost like he takes special care to not give a shit about his backgrounds and layout.