2/ another cartoonist that found boomer fame by pretending Nixon was the most evil politician in American history, sleeping through the Clinton and obama years, reviving his boomer cred through the bush years, etc..but when you think of it, all pop political cartoonists are hacks
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13/ ditto for Ben garrison... notice the word "effective", is art effective on a deeper level? Good art is (well unless you are Kant, and art should be disinterested beauty, that's another thread)..but political cartoons are effective in a different way..pic.twitter.com/P2AvAQmu8y
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14/ they are "effective" in a purely utilitarian and operational way, the way clickbait headlines are effective, designed to pull in the viewer and in a lot of cases denigrating the political subject matter because they create mockeries, simplified metaphors and memes, in short..
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15/ propaganda and nothing else. So at lest imo, political cartoonists of all stripes are not "real artists", as pretentious as that sounds.pic.twitter.com/fWlK6Go85k
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apparatus, a visual replicator of ideology that lacks the profound insight of a real artist, but only possesses a vile "cleverness" by juxtaposing image