Cartoon Violence Is Squinting At It, But It Still Doesn't Really Look Like That
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Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today's Cartoons. You know what would be pretty cool? Or, well, if not cool, then at least interesting from the standpoint of aesthetic philosophy? I'd like to see a sort of Dogme 95 manifesto for political cartoons. You couldn't depict your targets as animals, or metaphorical objects, or fetuses, or whatever, or have them flying in space, or floating underwater, or going to parties with Hugo Chavez, or any of that crap. Caricature would be permitted, obviously, within limits; your characters would have to be recognizable, and human, and even the non-famous ones have to be based one real human beings (you may use friends and family members for this purpose). And no labels. For
Cartoon Violence Is Squinting At It, But It Still Doesn't Really Look Like That
Cartoon Violence Is Squinting At It, But It…
Cartoon Violence Is Squinting At It, But It Still Doesn't Really Look Like That
Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today's Cartoons. You know what would be pretty cool? Or, well, if not cool, then at least interesting from the standpoint of aesthetic philosophy? I'd like to see a sort of Dogme 95 manifesto for political cartoons. You couldn't depict your targets as animals, or metaphorical objects, or fetuses, or whatever, or have them flying in space, or floating underwater, or going to parties with Hugo Chavez, or any of that crap. Caricature would be permitted, obviously, within limits; your characters would have to be recognizable, and human, and even the non-famous ones have to be based one real human beings (you may use friends and family members for this purpose). And no labels. For