Brodner's Take on the Primaries
February 7, 2008 10:28 PM Subscribe
Cartoonist Steve Brodner sketches the American candidates for president as Odd Couples in a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Best. McCain. Evah.
I think I'd find McCain more amusing if he hadn't promised to send thousands of my countrymen to their meaningless deaths in a godforsaken desert.
posted by Mitrovarr at 10:47 PM on February 7, 2008
posted by Mitrovarr at 10:47 PM on February 7, 2008
Is there any way this cartoonist could, you know, just show me his fine cartoons without talking to me?
posted by davejay at 12:16 AM on February 8, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by davejay at 12:16 AM on February 8, 2008 [2 favorites]
Can't he draw Obama without him looking like a goblin?
posted by kyleg at 1:01 AM on February 8, 2008
posted by kyleg at 1:01 AM on February 8, 2008
Can't he draw Obama without him looking like a goblin?
Are you racist?
Australia's Larry Pickering was drawing nude pollies 30 years ago.
Y'all sick of me comparing Oz funnymen vs. USA funnymen? Just say the word.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 3:41 AM on February 8, 2008
Are you racist?
Australia's Larry Pickering was drawing nude pollies 30 years ago.
Y'all sick of me comparing Oz funnymen vs. USA funnymen? Just say the word.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 3:41 AM on February 8, 2008
I love the shell-shocked look on naked Hillary. McCain's caricature was meh.
I don't know, though, how successful Brodner's work here was as an implementation of an idea. It's a bit of a stretch to portray HRC as working-class Homer and Obama as a fussy Marge.
Speaking of naked politicians, I remember reading Doug Marlette's In Your Face: A Cartoonist at Work, where he reminisces about drawing Nixon's face in a very ribald way (the man had very suggestive jowls and nose). Editorial cartooning can be powerful stuff.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:12 AM on February 8, 2008
I don't know, though, how successful Brodner's work here was as an implementation of an idea. It's a bit of a stretch to portray HRC as working-class Homer and Obama as a fussy Marge.
Speaking of naked politicians, I remember reading Doug Marlette's In Your Face: A Cartoonist at Work, where he reminisces about drawing Nixon's face in a very ribald way (the man had very suggestive jowls and nose). Editorial cartooning can be powerful stuff.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:12 AM on February 8, 2008
His style reminds me of Bill Plympton's. I think Plympton is slightly raunchier and messed-up, though.
posted by not_on_display at 1:17 PM on February 8, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 1:17 PM on February 8, 2008
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