Monday 14 February 2011

wisdom from the mouths of cartoon cats & spiders

[rights: Jim Davis]

Who would have believed that a dissident could escape the censorship of
the Murdoch media monster and produced an anti-war message?

Jim Davis did a great job, right smack on the last US Veteran's Day (2010).
Garfield is toying with the house spider.
The spider bravely talks of its posthumous glory:
"they will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honour"
The implicit message is that he will be killed without any
logical reason, like 99% of all soldiers (and civilians) killed
by the US or its erstwhile 'enemies'.
The remembrance ceremony in the next square,
showed how the majority of us scaredy-cats view soldiers
'Better those idiots than me.'
In such cases, I think that artists truly
'channel' the zeitgeist of the populace and can't help themselves.
Bless those cartoonists.

Later: Steve Bell (the Guardian) at LSE talking about cartooning and politics
He's the guy who portrays PM Cameron as a weeny with a rubber on his head.

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>