Political Cartoon Thread - Build the Rall!

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Mar 22, 2019 6:03 pm

Epic-Length All-In-One 24-Page Issue! Meet the Infernal Realms’ most inclusive super group! Lesbiana Hombre! Gay Chicano Female trapped inside the White Masculine body she never made! Redwood City! He may look like a tree, but he’s actually a mid-sized metropolitan California tourist destination (and excretes his own pine cones!) Borderline Bobbiey! Amazingly, he changes gender identity every time you refer to her by a different pronoun! Just watch him! You go, girl! Belvedere! Tired of being a stallion centaur Belvedere demands her right to give birth as a broodmare! Watch, as the strangest heroes of all tgo head-to-head with Cerebus!

This is gonna be the worst thing, huh?

(?) · Post by **Perrydotto** (?) » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:11 am

I liked Sims better when he wasn't making anything anymore and just rambled a lot of bullshit. Now he's going back to making his bullshit into art and yeah, thanks, I hate it!

Strangething · Post by **Strangething** (?) » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:11 am

The sad thing is, someone thinks this is clever.

(?) · Post by **Perrydotto** (?) » Sun Mar 24, 2019 4:07 pm

Strangething wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:11 am
The sad thing is, someone thinks this is clever.

But enough about Dave Sim!

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Mon Mar 25, 2019 3:20 pm

How dare they not be tolerant of my homophobia!

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Mar 29, 2019 7:24 pm

That new Dave Sim comic blew up on Twitter. I love that most of the reactions upon seeing his name trending is "Ugh, what did Sim do THIS time?"

Sums it up

minty · Post by **minty** (?) » Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:09 pm

If the comic is half as terrible as the cover it will be really terrible.

Perpetual Motion · Post by **Perpetual Motion** (?) » Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:24 pm

That has got to be the worst case of side-mouth I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog art.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:27 am

According to someone who has a copy of the Diamond catalog, the solicitations for Sim's new book literally ran the next page

Strangething · Post by **Strangething** (?) » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:25 pm

Perpetual Motion wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:24 pm
That has got to be the worst case of side-mouth I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog art.

Yeah, Cerberus is in danger of biting his own eyeball.

Princess Flufflebutt · Post by **Princess Flufflebutt** (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:41 am

I found an interesting gallery with a bunch of cartoons from the 80s condemning video games. Pacman seems to be the favourite.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:01 am

PAC-MAN IS TEARING OUR FAMILY APART

I swear, some of those I can imagine as Onion's Kelly cartoons.

minty · Post by **minty** (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:22 pm

I don't know what's better, Pied Piper Pacman or that woman marrying a video game system.

SlateSlabrock · Post by **SlateSlabrock** (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:16 pm

me irl

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:20 pm

While were on transphobic cartoons...

Readers were unhappy when this comic strip ran in a New Zealand paper. They have since apologized

Stephanie is a recurring character in the comic, too, reading the article.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:13 pm

I don't even understand the joke they're trying to make.

Also "a transgender"

Davyinatoga · Post by **Davyinatoga** (?) » Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:39 pm

Holy crap, that Stephanie character appears to be nothing but blatant transphobic propaganda, based on "her" character arc (quotation marks aren't mine btw, the comic is p. aggressive in making the character's transition as unauthentic as possible). How the heck does this trashpile of a comic even run at all????

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:20 pm

Davyinatoga wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:39 pm
How the heck does this trashpile of a comic even run at all????

Octavia wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:32 pm
The types of people that still have newspaper subscriptions are definitely also the types of people who would vote for Trump.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:00 pm

There's also a lot of organized transphobia in the UK ("Alex" is a British strip)

minty · Post by **minty** (?) » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:42 pm

I made the mistake of looking up her character profile, which misgenders her.

And it's so rare to see transgender male characters, so I guess it's only fitting that they made a terrible one.

I'm sure it's possible to make a narcissistic ladder-climber character who happens to be a transgender woman and make her funny, but not at the expense of her gender if that makes sense?

They did drop the strip though.

Skipper · Post by **Skipper** (?) » Wed Apr 17, 2019 1:33 am

minty wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:42 pm
They did drop the strip though.

Good.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:57 am

I guess comic book stuff kinda fits here. Remember Chelsea Cain, who did that "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda" cover for "Mockingbird"? She's a TERF, apparently.

Her new comic is about a disease turning menstruating women into were-cats. Yeah

minty · Post by **minty** (?) » Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:32 pm

Everything is terrible, but what's with the line "We are girls, then we're menopausal"? It implies that a 30-year-old mother who still gets periods is a child.

And yeah, I resent how people who are assigned female at birth are assumed to be that. Especially since lately there's been a push to be as feminine as possible if afab. There's nothing wrong with being feminine, but I hate the implication that it is for everyone. It can be really alienating sometimes.

Madeline · Post by **Madeline** (?) » Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:25 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:57 am
I guess comic book stuff kinda fits here. Remember Chelsea Cain, who did that "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda" cover for "Mockingbird"? She's a TERF, apparently.

Her new comic is about a disease turning menstruating women into were-cats. Yeah

Minor correction: Chelsea Cain wrote the series, but didn’t draw that cover. She got harassed out of Marvel Comics by gaters, and then turned out to be a TERF.

In conclusion, nobody should ever be put on a pedestal for anything, including randos like me.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:37 pm

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:39 am

Sina Grace wrote about his experience writing Iceman for Marvel. Wasn't exactly the most pleasant experience, I'm sorry to say

From the get-go, my first editor asserted that Iceman would be DOA if it were “too gay,” while also telling me to prepare for a cancellation anyway, given that most solo X-Men titles don’t last beyond a year.

minty · Post by **minty** (?) » Sat Jun 29, 2019 1:54 pm

We need a war because someone made a comic book superhero gay. Right then.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:47 pm

Octavia wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:37 pm

Turns out this cartoon got the cartoonist fired.

(?) · Post by **Perrydotto** (?) » Mon Jul 01, 2019 3:55 am

It's pretty fucking chilling to read that a newspaper fires a cartoonist critical of Trump because of their business ties in the US:

Tyrell says that, although Brunswick News Inc. is a Canadian company, its business ties within the United States influenced their decision.

"Trade has been an issue since Trump took office," Tyrell said. "And the President himself is an unknown quantity who punishes those who appear to oppose him."

Trump's constant bashing of critical media makes media wanting to profit eager to criticize him less. He doesn't need to directly order newspapers to stop being mean to him for his disgusting attitude to have an effect.

SlateSlabrock · Post by **SlateSlabrock** (?) » Mon Jul 01, 2019 5:43 am

He's not the only one. Rob Rogers, a Pittsburgh political cartoonist, got fired last year after the newspaper was sold to a right-wing owner who had the paper start canning all of his strips critical of Trump.

Strangething · Post by **Strangething** (?) » Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:32 am

I feel like this sums up most of 2019 in one image.

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:04 pm

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:45 am

Apparently Doug TenNapel is going to appear at a panel at SDCC this year. Suffice to say, not everyone is happy about it, given the history of Doug being an asshole

Also, holy shit this story:

The thread has more (he tried to get the black cartoonist to say the "N" word), but yeesh. Sounded like a trashfire

Strangething · Post by **Strangething** (?) » Tue Jul 16, 2019 12:23 pm

Wow, what a trainwreck.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:01 pm

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Fri Jul 26, 2019 3:17 am

Several Idaho lawmakers have been getting this postcard drawn by a far-right artist protesting Boise State University's program supporting LGBT students

More info here. Fitting that a clown drew this

Strangething · Post by **Strangething** (?) » Fri Jul 26, 2019 12:55 pm

The clown world meme is just white nationalists approaching self-awareness.

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:27 pm

This is the worst. Just for context, he's a Disney artist with a long list of credits

Also, "I made a mixed baby"

(if you find his instagram page, don't read the comments. Seriously)

Mr. Big · Post by **Mr. Big** (?) » Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:30 pm

Newspaper apologizes for transphobic cartoon

Octavia · Post by **Octavia** (?) » Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:41 pm

Mr. Big wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:30 pm
Newspaper apologizes for transphobic cartoon

There's an entire subreddit devoted to the fact that the right only has the one same joke.

Here's a pleasant cartoon to offset it.