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From all the US satirical cartoons I have seem they seem rather crude and tame compared to the UK and still rely rather old tropes that always seem to require l
by C1sc0cat 7y ago
From all the US satirical cartoons I have seem they seem rather crude and tame compared to the UK and still rely rather old tropes that always seem to require labelling "oh look its the cat with $ signs for eyes and labelled "wall street"
whereas in the UK a cartoon might make a reference to a cartoon from 50-60-70 years ago and you would be expected to understand the reference with out labelling
- fiblye 7y agoDo you have examples of these sorts of cartoons? I've never seen one so I can't imagine what they're like.
- pmyteh 7y agoSo here's an example of a Steve Bell editorial cartoon. He's a leftwinger, in the fairly angry and vicious tradition of British satire, but this is a fairly restrained one: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/jun/05/steve-bell-75th-anniversary-d-day-cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/jun/0... It's a comment on the pageantry around the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and directly refers to a famous cartoon from WW2, which was published on VE Day by the (also socialist) cartoonist Philip Zec: http://www.cartooncounty.com/serendipity2/uploads/Zec2site.JPG http://www.cartooncounty.com/serendipity2/uploads/Zec2site.J... The whole genre isn't self-referential, but it's not unusual for leader cartoons to refer to other cartoons, famous paintings, television, or other things.
- skocznymroczny 7y agoAnything by Ben Garrison https://grrrgraphics.com/cartoons https://grrrgraphics.com/cartoons
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoNew Yorker cartoons are not political cartoons. They are general humour, albeit of a sort that might strike most readers as highbrow.