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The Satire Of Prez #1 Is Shown Up By Actual British News
A satirical take on modern day politics and society that sees a young woman elected President on Twitter due to trending on YouTube after getting her hair caught making corndogs. As you do. Except the problem with this comic is that reality isn't sitting back and waiting for Prez to happen It is that Britain is beating you[...]
A Cartoonist At The Guido Fawkes Tenth Anniversary Party #GF10
The Daily Politics show on the BBC two days later ran a piece And as friends watching the bit texted me, they felt it was like playing "Where's Richie" – I seemed to keep popping up in the background. Feel free to join in the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psY3mtEQVyY And you can see the full awards presentation and introductory speech[...]
Archie Comics Goes Gender Swapping
Courtesy of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. In August's edition of Archie Comics, Archie becomes Archina, and Betty and Veronica become Billy and Ronnie. It's time for a heady examination of gender politics in the lives of teenagers. And, yes, yes, Archie does indeed appear to be stacked. Via BuzzFeed. We've had political candidates Gay military interracial marriages[...]
Bill Willingham On Sex, Death And Politics
[Laughter]  And I'm glad you brought up your beliefs, because digging deeper into Fables, it's clear that your personal worldview is innately tied to the series.  Now, I don't know if you follow Bleeding Cool, and have seen some of the recent discussions — From time to time. Oh, great.  I don't know if you've seen the[...]
That Doonesbury Cartoon
This is the first of a series of Doonesbury cartoons running this week in... slightly less newspapers than usual. Targeting legislation in a number of
Thursday Trending Topics: Hero Politics
  There has almost always been an element of the politics of the times in our comics Even if you ignore policital cartoons and cartoonists — many of whom were hugely influential on the architects of the American comic book industry — the confluence of the height of the Golden Age of comics with World War II assured[...]
Friday Runaround – It's All About The Politics
PoliticsWatch: New Zealand cartoonist Haden Currie has released a free comic book both satirising and celebrating the current Prime Minister John Key, before this Saturday's General Election. PoliticsWatch2: He might not have the same luck in Russia though, Russian comics from communist parties have been banned for presenting President Putin in an unflattering fashion, suffering from[...]
Sinestro Corps Keeps Fear Alive at Stewart/Colbert Rally
With key congressional elections just days away, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert staged a rally to — in the Washington Post's words — "redeclare Americans' ability to get along and work together, regardless of their ideological differences,"  and poke fun at the typically overheated media conversation that surrounds US politics in the process. The rally drew[...]