Political Toons

[bill_g]

[MN-Skeptic]

A tweet, not a political cartoon, but close enough -

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[Estiveo]

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[p0rtia]

Okay, that's weird.

What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.

[sugar magnolia]

Okay, that's weird.

What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.

The circus comes to town?

[p0rtia]

Okay, that's weird.

What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.

The circus comes to town?

Yeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.

[sugar magnolia]

Okay, that's weird.

What's the reference, please? My classical education has failed me again.

The circus comes to town?

Yeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.

On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/

[AndyinPA]

Good one! I like the horror element.

[RTH10260]

cause I looked it up:

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, and the second book in his Green Town Trilogy. It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern home, Green Town, Illinois, on October 24. In dealing with the creepy figures of this carnival, the boys learn how to combat fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark", who seemingly wields the power to grant the townspeople's secret desires. In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who, like the carnival, lives off the life force of those it enslaves. Mr. Dark's presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, the janitor of the town library, who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something ... es_(novel)

[p0rtia]

The circus comes to town?

Yeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.

On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/

Thank you. Definitely SWTWC (even without tattoos), a favorite in my youth. PS Bradbury rocks.

[poplove]

Yeah, that was my reaction, but the style is so distinctive--and then there's the crow. I figured it's got to be a pastiche.

On the cover: The illustrator Justin Metz borrowed the visual language of old Ray Bradbury and Stephen King paperbacks to portray a circus wagon on its ominous approach to a defiled Capitol. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s 1962 masterpiece, was a particular inspiration. We believe this to be the first cover bearing no headline or typography in The Atlantic’s 167-year history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/press-relea ... ns/679752/

Thank you. Definitely SWTWC (even without tattoos), a favorite in my youth. PS Bradbury rocks.

It as also a 1983 movie. I saw it once and that was enough.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[roadscholar]

I saw it as Trump having seized and kidnapped the R party (the elephant).

[sugar magnolia]

I saw it as Trump having seized and kidnapped the R party (the elephant).

Or delivering the elephant to the White House to stomp around and destroy things, while leaving huge mountains of shit in their wake. Like they did before.

[sad-cafe]

I saw it as a funeral carriage

like he killed the repubic party

[Dave from down under]

All the above

The art is working

[Dave from down under]

Note the cruelty implied by the whip..

[pipistrelle]

Harlan Crow.

[Mr brolin]

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem Washington to be reborn?"

[June bug]

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem Washington to be reborn?"

Excellent, Mr brolin!

[bill_g]

[northland10]

I just liked the shades of red.

[keith]

Thank you. Definitely SWTWC (even without tattoos), a favorite in my youth. PS Bradbury rocks.

Yeah, big Bradbury fan here, but I started SWTWC at least 5 times and just couldn't get past 20 or 30 pages. Don't know why.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[neonzx]

[bill_g]