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You can call a controversial comic’s work an ‘artwork’. But this doesn’t change its shocking subject matter.
American cartoonist Robert Crumb has repeatedly depicted scenes of rape, incest, paedophilia and bestiality. Many of his works have racist overtones. We should be discouraging him from publishing, and I was relieved to hear yesterday that he had cancelled his Australian tour.
Robert Crumb is a self confessed “weirdo“, whose work promotes exploitation of women and minors. We should not be celebrating him.
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Scooby-Doo and the crime-fighting gang are some of the most beloved children’s TV characters of all time.
The original series Scooby Doo, Where Are You! debuted in 1969 and the show ran for 17 years. Its latest syndication of films and straight-to-DVD movies makes Scooby-Doo the longest lived TV cartoon character.
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A beautiful summation of the show, Claire. My 4 year old and her little friends adore it and can’t get enough of it. Funnily enough, the networks are obviously onto this because recently I have seen the show in various incarnations on up to 3 different channels at once. The… Read more »
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Wham bam! Islam!
DC Comics is about to publish a series in which the Justice League of America fights crime alongside The 99 – the world’s first Islamic superheroes.
Jabbar the Powerful joins forces with The Incredible Hulk. Burqa babe Batina the Hidden teams up with Wonder Woman, the Not So Hidden. Just imagine the conversation.
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Religion PTY LTD says:
God is an imaginary friend for grown ups! If an adult talks to an imaginary friend they have mental issues! If more than one adult talks to the same imaginary friend it’s called a religion! If a deity doesn’t believe in it’s self is that blasphemy? Monotheism! I can’t believe… Read more »
I’ll be honest, I was looking for an excuse to dig up John Howard’s caricature one last time and give it a good flogging.
There’s something about the reach-for-the-sky eyebrows, go-forth-into-the-night bottom lip and mouthful-of-dental-cotton vocal lilt that as a satirist, I find irresistible.
All I needed was a reasonable context, and Tony Abbott’s ascension to the Liberal leadership provided the perfect opportunity.
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Lucien says:
@Robert - keeping a plug in Tony’s cakehole worked well enough for the premise of this sketch, but it was also a convenient way of hiding the fact that I haven’t nailed his vocal caricature yet. That’s going to take a lot of listening to his voice. Possibly more than… Read more »
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Robert King says:
@acker; Ouch! On re-reading the third paragraph of Lucien’s post, I realise I’ve gone off on a completely ‘unfounded’ tangent. Thanks for helping me steer the ‘HMAS Mateship’ on a course more acceptable to you. Please go on more about what you think the thread is about… you’re really quite… Read more »
In 2007, for the first time in its history, The Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning was awarded to a cartoonist whose submission consisted of both print cartoons and animations.
America’s editorial cartoonists, already under siege from dwindling newspaper circulation, syndication and political correctness, were quick to circle the wagons around their craft. “What next…the Family Guy gets a Pulitzer?” bleated USA Today’s Scott Stantis.
They miss the point. Anybody who’s ever picked up a pixel and tried to churn out an animation knows how laborious, how mind-numbingly tedious, how frustrating a process it can be.
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