Cartoon Violence Keeps Its Eyes On Its Own Work
Friday, March 17th, 2006
The issues facing the country and the body politic are, these days, distressingly non-visual. Which presents some challenges to our nation’s caroonists. How to depict the prospect of a showdown with Iran? The lobbying scandals? The political fallout of the ports deal?
As our resident cartoon expert the Comics Curmudgeon learned this week, you do it with jokes about Dick Cheney shooting a guy in the face! And references to the difficulties faced by pimps out here!
Our weekly roundup of the general suckiness of Today’s Cartoons, after the jump.
Now look, ABC: we’ve known plenty of people who’ve taken drugs that do that, and they usually just end up babbling all night about Radiohead and going home with someone creepy — they don’t commit genocide, fer chrissakes. 