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The Sad Ballad Of Hillary Clinton

By the Comics Curmudgeon
In the wake of her defeat in North Carolina, and her win in Indiana that wasn't winny enough for most people's tastes, Hillary Clinton now heads a campaign haunted by the lingering stench of death. The question is, has her nose been so damaged by snorting the metaphorical cocaine of white working class approbation that she can't smell it? Check out America's cartoonists' take on the death march, after the jump. More »

12:10 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By jfruh
5,873 views, 28 comments

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Grumpy Naked Elephant-Sexing Americans Aren't Bitter

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Americans, we know you're bitter! But if you read this site you're probably a member of the chauffeured liberal elite, so I'm guessing you're not really clinging to religion or guns. No, you're doing those hillbillies one better: you're actually clinging desperately to your own bitterness! More good reasons to seethe, after the jump. More »

11:25 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By jfruh
3,433 views, 23 comments

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Pennsylvania's Cartoon Hangover

By the Comics Curmudgeon
Are you tired of Pennsylvania primary news, now that it's over? Ha ha, just kidding, obviously you were tired of it weeks and weeks before it even happened. Nevertheless, we feel that the following cartoons about America's favorite "Keystone State" will help bring a sense of closure to this dark period in our lives, and get you ready for the next stage, which will involve wishing you never, ever heard the word "Indiana." More »

1:30 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By jfruh
3,537 views, 10 comments

Latest by louisev: we have to ask ourselves at this point, will we ever look at Obama's face again without seeing Grinchlike features? more »

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The Horrifyingly Bitter Cartooninated Week That Was

By the Comics Curmudgeon

You may faithfully tune in daily to America's favorite filthy-minded political blog, but I'm betting that you actually have very little idea about what's going on in the so-called "news," am I right? Sure, you could listen to the bloviation on broadcast TV or the high-pitched shrieking on cable, but that will kill your soul by degrees. Wouldn't it be great if you could get a quick recap of the week's important stories ... in cartoon form? If you said "yes," then today is your lucky day, my friend. More »

1:40 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By jfruh
4,241 views, 19 comments

Latest by Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.: @Naked Bunny with a Whip: Clearly we have a furry in out midst. Bear hug! more »

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A Delightful Menagerie Of Economic Chaos

Do you understand how the economy works? Ha ha, of course you don't. Nobody does! Our "robust economic system" is a dense network of horrifying gambles, pyramid schemes, and pure scams that were mostly made up on the fly for short-term gain so that somebody could cash out and move to some island safe from the eventual looting. Nevertheless, our noble political cartoonists have done their best to help you understand the anarchy that is destroying your retirement fund (such as it was): by portraying it as a series of adorable animals! See the poverty zoo, after the jump. More »

1:50 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By jfruh
3,864 views, 22 comments

Latest by southerndem: Our witch doctor friend is actually a "voodoo economist"... pretty funny if you ask me. more »

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Nightmarish Horror Visions A-Go-Go

Americans! Do you feel that your politics do not supply you with adequate amounts of disturbing images? Do this and this not satisfy you in this regard? Are you some sort of masochistic sicko? Well, your political cartoonists are working to satisfy you. After the jump, what our politicians would look like to someone who's just consumed some horrifying mixture of peyote and benzene. More »

12:05 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By jfruh
3,430 views, 20 comments

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I'm Swell, My Opponent Is A Necrophiliac/Hobo/Graceful Figure Skater

Hey, did you know that it's only March? That's right, you have another seven months of this stupid election to endure. Since it's already gone on for eleventy billion months already, everything of remote substance has already been hashed out and forgotten, so now all we have time for are the wild accusations. And everyone knows wild accusations are more fun in cartoon form! More »

12:40 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By jfruh
4,033 views, 26 comments

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Everyone's A Whore

Are you tired of looking at pictures of prostitutes? Ha ha, liar! America's political cartoonists have determined that hookers are an "In" visual icon these days, and, being shameless, have no shame about transforming many aspects of our beloved nation into whores for polemical purposes. Find out which abstract concepts you'd pay to fuck, after the jump. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By jfruh
4,409 views, 10 comments

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Klansmen, Cowboys and Angelina In Cartoon Hell

Is drawing a political cartoon really so difficult? Only if you care about the results! This week in Cartoon Violence, we offer some tips on coming up with ideas for political cartoons as quickly as possible. Let's take an over-labeled journey to an ordinary American Hell packed with cowboys and klansmen and Angelina Jolie's lips. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By jfruh
4,507 views, 17 comments

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Cartoon Violence Is Crazy For John WALNUTS! McCain

Each week, The Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today's Cartoons. Republicans! All hail your new president, John Walnuts McCain! You and the rest of us will presumably be seeing a lot of his rheumy, liver-spotted mug on the teevee and the newspapers and, if you have the ill fortune to live in a "swing state," possibly in horrifying person. If you're like most decent, sensible people, you've ignored politics completely for the entire duration of the campaign so far and thus have no idea what this clown looks like. How, then, are to you distinguish him from any run-of-the-mill insane old man yammering nonsense? The cartooning community is here to help! More »

12:55 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By jfruh
3,378 views, 13 comments

Latest by JacobFreeze: McCain Leads Clinton in New Poll! more »

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Cartoon Violence Is A-Scared

Each week, The Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today's Cartoons. Most political discourse is a bunch of blah blah blah talky talky jaw jaw crappy crap. Political cartoons have the unique ability to short-circuit all that, with their purely visual representation of important world and national events (assuming they don't get out of control with labeling everything). But what if political cartoonists used the power of visual images ... for evil? More »

2:29 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By jfruh
3,923 views, 28 comments

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Cartoon Violence Knows What's Really Going On

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! With a mere 97 months or whatever until the election, the negative attacks are beginning in earnest! For instance, you may have heard that Obama is a dirty plagiarist, and that McCain has sexy sex with sexy lobbyists, and that Hillary eats Christian babies! That’s all true, but how can you tell when the negative stories you read about the candidates are actually totally false bogus lies? Fortunately, we here at Cartoon Violence are here to separate the truth from the fiction — at least, when the fiction is in political cartoon form. More »

11:41 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By jfruh
3,829 views, 19 comments

Latest by Tukla_in_Iowa: I seethe with jealousy every time I see Barack with that donkey. Barack! Fulfill your beastialicious fantasies with *me*! Once you go rabbit, you'll make it a habit! more »

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Cartoon Violence Takes The Easy Way Out

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Political cartoonists’ jobs are a lot like yours. Some days they get to work full of vim and vigor and inspiration and promise for the future, and some days, they … don’t. But even when nothing that exciting or thrilling comes to mind for our cross-hatching classes, there’s still a deadline rapidly approaching, and a top editor lurking just out in the hall muttering about outsourcing to Russia, so they’ve got to come up with something. This week, Cartoon Violence offers the aspiring cartoonist a primer on churning out acceptable filler when the clock is ticking. More »

11:43 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By jfruh
2,790 views, 11 comments

Latest by RevG: Brimstone is sulpher, so no brimstone is raining. Sorry BaldBaby. more »

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Cartoon Violence Just Wants Us All To Get Along

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Welcome to our new confusing, post-Super Tuesday world! Since Republicans are good at falling into line once the true alpha male is revealed, they seem to have their plan figured out, while the Democrats, with their rampant overthinking and argumentativeness, are beginning to realize that they’ll be processing about who should get the nomination for months and months and months. Is there an alternative to Howard Dean choosing a name out of a hat? As ever, our political cartoonists are here to help. The white lady or the black fellow? Find out how we can pick, after the jump. More »

12:47 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By jfruh
3,174 views, 9 comments

Latest by IanJ: Oh god, now all I can think of is creamy, frozen scoops of human flesh served up on a jaunty waffle cone! Try the negro! It's delicious! more »

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Anything You Can Spare For Cartoon Violence

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

It has come to our attention that the economy is in a bit of a pickle. As financial and macroeconomic experts, we’re all too aware of what this portends: hobos! Yes, thousands of shabby, unshaven, impoverished tramps will soon be spreading out onto America’s streets — and America’s editorial pages! In this week’s Cartoon Violence, we offer up a guide to the coming hobocalypse that will help you make it through with your bindle intact. More »

12:06 PM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By jfruh
3,964 views, 26 comments

Latest by kindofabigdeal: @Lazy Media: I beg to differ. I know lots of bums that aren't homeless. Old joke: What do you call a cartoonist that just broke up with his girlfriend? Homeless. Update: What does his girlfriend call him? A bum. See? Not interchangeable. more »

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Cartoon Violence vs. the 22nd Amendment

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Hey, weren’t the ’90s great? With your stock bubbles and your grunge rock and your Lou Dobbs not ranting about Mexicans and your long-winded outraged public discussion of fellatio and … such! It was a golden era for our political cartoonists, too, because they got to draw Bill Clinton for eight years. Can the good times ever return? More »

11:37 AM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By jfruh
3,194 views, 9 comments

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Cartoon Violence Blinded Me With Science

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Who says the Republicans are against science? That’s a vicious slander. “Social Conservatives” are only against science when science comes up with results that are at variance with the things they already believe or want, and in that sense they’re exactly like everybody else. More »

12:45 PM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By jfruh
3,593 views, 35 comments

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Cartoon Violence Explains It All

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Hey whoah there what happened with the electing and the caucusing and WHOAH looks like Obama and Huckabee are our new FRONT RUNNERS and everyone else is pretty much screwed old news done over with but then wait hold on hold up those crazy New Hampshirians or whatever they’re called CHANGED EVERYTHING and now Hillary and Walnuts are back in the saddle they’re underdogs who came from behind even though a year ago they were in the lead and OH MY GOD WHO CAN UNDERSTAND IT???? More »

1:16 PM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By jfruh
2,500 views, 16 comments

Latest by jbd: @gurukalehuru: Yeah, I was kinda hoping this was one of the KRAZY Russian cartoons. No dice on that, I guess. more »