If you follow me on Twitter or friends on Facebook, you have already seen today’s cartoon update at In Contempt. If not, then follow the link and stare blankly in the headlights of my brilliance, like a deer about to ruin the front end of my car yet walk away without a scratch.
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Penny Arcade, the pioneer of gaming-obsessed webcomics, posted a funny, sadly accurate parody of mainstream political cartooning today.
Sure, the meta take on this is new media crowing over its take-down of old media. Yet cruise the AAEC, Daryl Cagle or Slate galleries and see how much difference you can spot between the parody and the [...]

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Jeff Danzinger is a great political cartoonist. I love his work. But this is racist:

No, not in intent. In portrayal. Squinty eyes, buck teeth. You can practically hear the “ah, so.” I mean – bowlers? Really? How Charlie Chan can you get?!
Which is too bad, because otherwise this would be a funny cartoon.
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Josh Fruhlinger wants to know (and so do I):
I’m completely uninterested in discussing the didactic content of this cartoon, but it does bring up a question I’ve always found completely fascinating, which is: why are large, wooden barrels the Universal Comics Symbol For Poverty? I mean, I know I’m a decadent 21st century denizen who [...]

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