In the Dry Bones begging for change comic, he wrote "JIGGLE JIGGLE" under the change mug instead of "JINGLE JINGLE" and that is the funniest thing he will ever do.
Yaakov Kirschen has no excuse for his weird English diction and strange mistakes like "JIGGLE JIGGLE" -- the guy was born in New York City in 1931 and moved to Israel in 1971. At most he should be writing "on line" instead of "in line" and other New Yorkisms, instead he sounds like a Sabra (I thought he had immigrated from Europe in the late 1940s.)
if y'all weren't so dead sure that it's a mistake i'd almost think it had something to do with the fact that jiggling a cup full of change is one of the most common and straightforward ways to get said jingle jingle out of said cup full of change but since there's NO way to tell that he's jiggling the cup I must fall in line oh but wait he's asking for money his cup is literally empty there is nothing to jingle jingle when he jiggle jiggles it. what a fool i have been. an absolute nimrod. just a just a real maroon i shoulda thought out what I was gonna say before i said it, now i'm no better than the man himself!
I spent years thinking Ben Garrison was a brilliant liberal satirist making fun of right wing political cartoonists. It blew my mind to find out he was actually being sincere with that ridiculous shit.
@@lukasthesmileyguy8126 yeah I did. I didn't read his stuff daily, but whenever I saw one it was a perfect satire of how the GOP was thinking. I only found out recently that he was actually a right wing nut job.
@@Nozoki Is everyone who's right wing a nut job to you? It should've been obvious from day one that any and all politicians are enemies and that political cartoonists are always weird idiots.
@@blacktiger974 Alex Jones is the love child of Art Bell and Rush Limbaugh. If you put his segments in any sketch comedy show and it would kill. Figuratuvely!!! Like, as in dying from laughter. Not like his current show, which literally gets people killed(allegedly).
I did actually guess that the image was AOC, not because I looked anything like her mind you, it was just a woman drawn by a conservative political cartoonist so AOC is like the safest guess.
Clinton would actually have been the _safest_ bet sight unseen, but right-wing political cartoonists care WAY too much about race to draw Clinton that dark.
I saw the flower and earing, and realized there was only one Hispanic woman in politics a conservative would bother going to the effort to stereotype in a drawing
I do love people trying to make puns on “politically incorrect” that actually make them sound like they’re describing themselves as being wrong. Comically incorrect shows up in this one, but I’ve also seen “politically right, not correct”
@@TheGyrocop Because it implies that they’re just so bad and incorrect that they’re funny. Almost as if it was satire. It really says something about a political cartoonist when them accidentally implying that it’s satire makes them look better than saying it’s real…
There's nothing worse than an artist publicly declaring that the praise given to another artist should be given to them, instead. Just repress that shit like the rest of us artists do and draw some big butts.
And don't lie about liking those butts OR be conservative with the S I Z E of drawn butts. Actually,.....you're new task is to say, or think the phrase "Of drawn butts" randomly once a day.
@@PvblivsAelivs why would they sadly some likely do, but you expect an lgbt+ person to accept the lgb crap?! Thats just transphobia. Also every community has drama. And very different people. But pretty sure most call that out. Rall is an embarissing bad cartoonist, but there are worse things, he should really critizized as that. I mean rall has better text than the later ones , but horrible flow and akward.
@Hunter Rayna I mean, that's what the liberal political machine has been doing for the last 20 years... giving lip service to racial issues by doing idpol. I'm a leftie, and want lefty policies to succeed. That includes understanding what real intersectional politics are, instead of accepting false promises and surface inclusion from mainstream movers and shakers.
Ben Garrison seems like a fetish artist who is trying desperately to channel all of his horniness into extremely conservative comics, but even that can't always keep him at bay. And in a few years, I expect Michael Ramirez's style of drawing people to become just a single vertical line with a circle near the top to represent the ear.
5:08 You can't tell me this is a comic. These are fucking paragraphs with illustrations. Dude literally wrote his thoughts out in Times New Roman and then copy-pasted them into MS paint and patted himself on the back for a job well done.
Garrison's original infamy came from 4chan's /pol/ board making highly offensive edits of his comics. He used to get angry, like frothingly mad, at it and that only encouraged the edits. It, uh, seems to have eventually broke his brain around the time Trump started his campaign, and he suddenly was in the same boat as /pol/ in wanting the spray tan in the office. Sad!
I actually did guess that AOC one. Only because it looked like a caricature of a latina woman, and I figured to conservatoid weirdos the fact that she is latina would be her most distinguishing physical feature.
Same. WAR magazine used to use a very similar depiction for Latino women for their racist comics. WAR went down like 30 years ago, yet their comics, and the style they created, is still what is used by these types of cartoonists today.
The focus on political cartoonists only really addresses half of the issue. A lot of political cartoonists double as what you'd call "Boomer Comic" makers. For the uninitiated few out there, Boomer Comics mostly make commentary on life in the 2020s through the lens of middle-aged resentment and both social and technological isolation. Classics in the genre involve any visual gag that involves someone's spouse being a casual alcoholic or mentioned as being the object of hatred, any gag that satirizes the use of smartphones or other items of mobile tech, or any commentary on the supposed "destruction" of social or gender norms. A lot of them feel like they're trying to channel Bizarro - albeit very, very poorly.
I hate boomer humor...do you know any examples of artists who are doing both? I want to look them up. It would explain an awful lot about political cartoons.
@@rachelagron3414 Bill Whitehead comes to mind. I don't think he's syndicated, I've only found reposts of his work on Boomer Comic Reddits and on his own Facebook group dedicated to his strip, Free Range. I've always suspected that a lot of editorial cartoonists keep Boomer comics as an unpaid, anonymous side-line, as hard as it is to get a bead on creators.
@@jcspoon573 No worries; Gen Xers are less prone to caterwauling, in my experience. Boomers tend to be in their late sixties and early seventies, of late. Some of my Gen X cousins can match Boomers in technophobia, but it's about where the buck stops. For reference, I'm currently 38 years old and mostly fall in the Old Millennial category.
Ben Garrison is truly a waste of talent. His artstyle is really good and he's good in making his drawings resemble people. Yet his comics are very heavyhanded and in-your-face. He don't NEED to draw people's names.
ACTUALLY I figured it out. Michael Ramirez's "ultra-styled" style looks like he did that drawing exercise where you draw something with your non-dominant hand, and then just kept that as the final artwork.
I think you will be delighted to know that MS Paint allows gradients now, so.... mystery solved! (Also semi-transparent brushes for that artistic flare! Do we even NEED Photoshop any more?)
@@sanityisrelative Yeah I'm a bit pissed off at Adobe I've had creative suites and real versions going way back and I wanted to re-register an older version cause I just don't have much money lately and they pretend they can't find my old accounts :/ I was hoping I could try and get back on my feet after a massive trauma. Death by a thousand papercuts and adobe is like 20 of them at least.
Even if in the past people were reliant on Adobe, there is a lot of alternatives to it now a days. MS Paint sadly, is a little obtuse, and if you dedicate yourself to your art, its not a end be all. As much stuff that you can give GIMP, its free and its a middle step towards a better direction.
Mallard Fillmore is worth checking out due to how awful it is. The artist is still making "metrosexual" jokes as of 2020 and that's not even the most embarrassing part
I was going to mention this. I must admit I find it somewhat admirable that someone can get away with selling the same picture of a duck for weeks on end while just ripping takes/jokes from r/libertarian.
One of my "favorite" rall moments is the 'Fat Teacher' comic he did in response to a news story about a teacher trying to defend students from a tornado, saying she had to be super fat in order to protect them from being whisked away (obviously the only sole dangerous thing about tornadoes, no way was she possibly defending them from flung debris), all because he was so so upset that there was someone being called a hero who wasn't Ted Rall.
Love that the TH-cam algorithm has pushed this to the front for a lot of people because it scanned the transcript and noticed references to Palestine so it thinks it is about the new war
@@donovanmahan2901 nuance is very important, but online leftists do have a problem with lack of brevity. i feel like there's ways to have both brevity and nuance, as opposed to copying a paragraph of a book written 100 years ago and pasting it onto a picture of an opossum.
As an avid left-tube viewer with ADHD, I agree there is a big problem with brevity. Like I love Philosopytube and HBomb and many other video essayists who tackle really interesting and important topics, but I can barely get through their videos because they're so long. I wish there were more leftist content creators who would put out videos that were short (like 10-20min) that I could pay attention to all the way through and learn
I hoped it would be the guy behind Dry Bones. His comics have ruined a number of reference image searches for me just because I get blind-sided by garbage when I'm trying to draw a skeleton turtle from Mario :( I figured nobody else had seen it. I'm glad I'm not alone but I weep for all of us.
@@PetitPoneyDuVercors26 I looked it up and that seems to be the French name for Dry Bones? That's pretty cool! The German names for the little guy are really funny; "Knochentrocken" (Dry as a Bone) and "Skelett-Koopa". I hope our Skelerex fan finds these new names helpful! If not, maybe just adding "Mario" to the search will narrow it down
@@neferacronia6798 Yes I'm french so I know them by the name skelerex, "squelette" is skeleton and the rex is from T rex (same term in french and english) I think (quite a dinosaurs feel in the bowser's minions designs) The german name seems to be constructed in a similar way too with skeleton term base Dry bones I felt sad about this name, skelerex works too in english 😂😂
Ted Ralls drawing what is CLEARLY Saving Private Ryan as a cite for "blind american exceptionalism" is...fucking wild as hell to me because, like... Saving Private Ryan depicts the glorious heroism that we're taught about as it actually was: A brutal, horrifying meat grinder, where men were blown apart without rhyme or reason, where nobility and sacrifice just led to death, death, and more death, and finally, where two laughing, jeering Americans GUN DOWN SURRENDERING SLAVE-SOLDIERS who are DESPERATELY trying to say "we're not Germans, we're Czech" Like... Come on, my dude!???
@@kostajovanovic3711 Yeah...though, I think that you are supposed to come away with a distinctly ambivalent feeling. Since, like, a bunch of people die to save one person...feels kind of like a waste of lives. That might just be me though >.>
Watched this one like three times and entirely missed Ted Rall's "Adolfa" comic. Now that I've seen it I would love it if through some circumstance Ted Rall was no longer capable or willing to pick up a pencil and draw.
I thought stonetoss might get a mention, but then it said "non-Nazi". But no joke, when you said there there were worse cartoonists than Ben Garrison, I got a jolt of morbid curiosity.
Thought Slime did a video on Stone Toss and, if I remember correctly, he finds him to be a pretty effective propagandist. So I don't think he'd go down as one of the "worst" political cartoonists anyway, given the definition Thought Slime's going with here.
@@DanCicala I just rewatched the stonetoss video, and yeah he's not a bad political cartoonist, he's a bad person but he is good at conveying his awful ideas through cartoons.
@@brennanrogers2525 I think the one who doesn't know what a nazi is it's you bud. Probably cause you a re so use to it. The rest of the normal world doesn't seem denying the holocaust and saying that Jews control everything very normal.
idk if it counts but it’s stonetoss for me. Ben Garrison has a weird charm to him, like peering into the way his incredibly stupid brain works is weirdly fascinating. stonetoss hurts in every way EDIT: nvm, missed the “Non-Nazi Edition” subtitle
Nah not really, I've seen leftists agree with stonetoss in more than one instance, but I've never seen a leftist agree with garrison. But hey, I also don't think either of them are neonazis.
@chad kaminski it wasn't a joke and I don't remember explicitly saying anything about IQ. You aren't helping your case by conflating IQ and the more generalised concept of intelligence :o
@@beckenhamboy1995 woah bud you're getting awfully close to sounding like a pretentious left wing political cartoonist. you got what he meant, and you're nit picking about the terminology used, the words are interchangeable in regular speech
I had the great privilege of meeting Art spiegleman when he visited my college and taking part in a small lecture and Q&A session with him (where he introduced me to the idea of HoloKitch when talking about the depiction of the Holocaust in modern media). He is such an amazing thoughtful artist who really poured his soul into Maus and his other works, and that single shot of the cartoonist making fun of maus makes me so irrationally angry lol
Tim rall is the bad future version of me. He's me if I didn't learn healthy coping mechanisms for feelings of inadequacy and instead let them fester until I was blaming every other content creator for my lack of success in art/videos/streaming
Must admit. The Maus thing was stupid in trivializing it. It takes guts to put out something raw and with such full on immersion in an original approach. Spiegleman goes way back to the beginnings in Underground comics. Ted Rall was wearing a diaper then. Kinda like a bushy haired Hippie acid rock guitarist dissing an old Bluesman.
Have you considered that maybe Grumbletum needs actual food in addition to the Likes, Comments, Subscriptions, and Patreons that he also clearly needs? Maybe try an orange, that's a nice fruit :D
@@ThoughtSlime perhaps a handful of acorns then? As a treat, to go along with the Likes, Comments, Subscribes, and Patreons that Grumbletum clearly needs too.
@@TheDaniel9 I think the Patreon *is* the treat, with likes, comments, and subscriptions being the main sustenance. But I’m not an expert on woodland creature husbandry either, so maybe I’m also wrong.
BOMBARASSSSS - I just come to look up in Slime beautiful face and den I look at the description and see my prolix name 😩first Khadija, now you?! Yuh ga give me a heart attack 😂Thank you so much, comrade. In the words of the ever problematic Morrissey, now my heart is full ❤️💜💙
@@ForeignManinaForeignLand You are entering a world not of mind but of sight, a mysterious abyss that watches you 👀 long after you yourself have looked away...
I know mildred said "ladies, gentlemen, and nb's" but the CC's said "enemies" so now I can think of my non-binary gender as being an enemy of gender and I like it...
3:43 The funniest part about this political cartoon is that Abraham Lincoln was a fan of Karl Marx and his work so most leftists don't dislike Lincoln lmfao
@UnkillableJay - There were school board members in San Francisco trying to rename Abraham Lincoln High School. There had been a battle of Native Americans and the U.S. Army and the Army wanted to execute all the captured prisoners. Lincoln intervened and pardoned most of the prisoners, but not all of them. The "not all of them" is why they wanted to cancel him. These same people wanted to rename a separate school because they found a guy on Wikipedia with the same surname as the school who was a racist. They didn't bother to figure out who the school was actually named after. Excesses like these have helped the right wing and their terrible cartoonists.
Deadass I had no idea "Branco" was a man's name I thought it was shorthand for "Bran Company" like that was some kind of publisher for a random weirdo's political cartoons
Oh my god Dry Bones, I can’t believe you’ve heard of it. It’s absolutely the worst, it gets put in our weekly shul newsletter and it is mind numbingly bad every time.
@@voiceofreason2674 I have seen people online accusing Jewish people of being nazis because they said they were Ashkenazi, so I'm really glad you googled first.
That whole "Citizen Kane is boring" thing pisses me off to great extent. First of all, that's a personal, subjective opinion. Ebert was trying to argue the objective merits of Citizen Kane, but this guy went "yeah, I agree, but I think it's boring therefor it sucks."
It could be fine from an entertainment to analysis to film theory, and then one side saying its boring, but its a big piece of film history too. There is an angle to poke fun at but that isnt it.
I agree with this. I personally find the film to be very boring to watch and kind of overrated but you can't deny it's historic value and the impact it has had on cinema.
@@marocat4749 Eh, as time goes on those so called classics of cinema history become more of a chore and less relevant. Humans just won’t be capable anyway if viewing everything “classic”.
@@asmrtpop2676 it was a trendsetter like evangelion. And i didnt watch it but it has aplace, that people dont have to watch, and unless you do media studies, no one should be forced to. No one should be forced, but if not, but not forme should be way more common added to ots boring. Even if you dont care there, knowing other perspective exist is an exercise in empathy we as society need. Just boring without not for me or other reasonsmentioned showing people actually watched it, is personally dismissable as criticism. And learning to critizize better, is good for everyone. Ok sorry for the rant, i guess its for the discouse and that engaging there can give life lessons like, people think different, its fine, things change a lot. Broadening your view on the world. That ot can ruv off positively to teach respect in doscoirce, and negatively just saying boring without a hint why.
I don't want to say that it's not weird, but it _does_ make sense from the wrong perspective. Sexuality isn't always about pleasure or admiration; sometimes it's a matter of control, dominance, power. Sexualizing women Ben doesn't like could be an attempt to diminish them, to reduce them to sexual objects rather than subjects capable of expressing contrary opinions. Or maybe he's just horny.
As someone who lazily slaps together stupid memes in MSPaint all the time, as soon as I saw those fill tool issues I knew that guy had to be using MSPaint.
actually, I have another theory. Considering how long he's been around he probably still draws his comics on paper (text included) and then scans them in. Doesn't matter what type of editing software you use from there you'll get the same results with the fill tool.
@@Nirual86 I suspect that's not the case. The text looks very regular so it's likely a computer font. You can compare it to the text saying "RABBI" at 11:33. That text is far less regular and thus likely made by hand (whether on paper or with software), likely because the text is at an angle.
8:27 I'm from Israel, and my friend thinks that Yaakov's style is deliberate. She said that in Israel, it's mainstream the idea that "the content is more important then the visuals" in caricatures. She said that Yaakov's main problem is the content
@@charliekahn4205 It's repetitive about what? Because if it's about the stuff that Thought slime showed, then these topics are popular to talk about in Israel. Moaning and complaining about these stuff.
The problem is, if you're using a visual medium like cartoons, the art has to play a part in your message. If Yaakov doesn't think the art is important, he should write essays, not cartoons. Imagine a movie with flat, boring, repetitive scenes, and the director comes out and says "It's not the scenes, it's the dialogue." Might as well write an audiobook or radio drama if you don't plan on shooting footage.
I'm sorry, I know it's not the purpose of the video, but Citizen Kane is one of those films that reads better from a leftist perspective. It gets somewhat explicitly anti-capitalist in multiple places, especially considering the final confrontation between Kane and Walter Thatcher (the banker character who raises Kane at the behest of his mother). Kane says in simple terms that if he hadn't been rich, he would've been a better person, and if he could do it all again, he would represent everything Thatcher hated. This, coupled with how isolated Kane is by his wealth and Welles' own progressive politics, adds to a firm Marxist reading of the text. Ted Rall is dumb for that and the rest of the Ebert, considering he also stood up for progressive causes and celebrated anti-establishment films. Films such as The Battle of Algiers, Battleship Potemkin, Guelwaar, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Blade Runner (yeah, way to use his review for the botched theatrical cut to misrepresent his feelings, Rall), Samurai Rebellion, and M. I know this is going to be lost in the sea of comments and is me showcasing my Ebert love to an irrational degree. However, my man deserved better than being written off by a guy whose big-brain take was "Citizen Kane is boring."
Even without the leftist take, the themes and story of Citizen Kane are compelling. The power of the press and how Kane thought he could turn that into his own personal power, how Kane's personal power had limits, like failing hard at politics or how he could buy his wife an opera house but couldn't make her a talented and celebrated opera signer.
I had never watched Citizen Kane before because I assumed, being an olde-timey movie, that it would be boring to me, someone who has generally been bored to death by other movies from that era. And then a few years ago I actually watched it for the first time, and was shocked to discover that it is, actually, _incredibly_ compelling! Turns out Orson Welles pioneered a lot of modern cinema techniques, so Citizen Kane feels like a modern film instead of an ancient dusty relic. If Ted Rall didn't find it engaging, I can only conclude that either he wasn't paying attention to the movie, or he was too dumb to understand what was going on.
Kane is one of my two favourite films. I agree with everything you said about it. I'd always thought that it kept getting placed at the top of lists because it was 'coasting', but when I finally sat down and watched it maybe ten years ago, I realised it's a phenomenal work of art.
Being aware of who Hearst was, and the historical events he played a part in, helped a lot in making the film very compelling to watch. That got me to watch it, but honestly as soon as I was 5-10 minutes in it was immediately apparent why it was so significant from a filmmaking perspective... the cinematography and level of visual playfulness is off the charts for something from that time period, and I completely get why it was as revolutionary back then as Star Wars was in 79, or The Wizard of Oz, etc. It's really a great movie that oughtn't bore anyone paying attention to it and interested in it. I disagree with you about Ebert (ie, see his Fight Club review), but that's just personal opinions, whatever...
7:20 A new study published in The Lancet found that police killings have been undercounted by 55% going back decades due to medical examiners and coroners mislabeling cause of death.
@@bS0up NYT reports that expert testimony in favor of the initial ME report triggered an investigation of its own: "The former chief medical examiner of Maryland, Dr. David Fowler, was also criticized after he testified on behalf of the Minneapolis police officer, saying Mr. Floyd’s death was caused by several factors and was not a homicide. After an open letter by Dr. Mitchell said that Dr. Fowler’s testimony revealed “obvious bias,” Maryland’s attorney general began a review of in-custody deaths that were handled under Dr. Fowler’s tenure." The Times also mentions, "Researchers estimated that over the time period they studied, which roughly tracks the era of the war on drugs and the rise of mass incarceration, nearly 31,000 Americans were killed by the police, with more than 17,000 of them going unaccounted for in the official statistics. The study also documented a stark racial gap: Black Americans were 3.5 times as likely to be killed by the police as white Americans were." Of course, being the NYT, that article also tries to offhandedly pin blame for homicides and crime on the defund movement, BLM, and social justice generally.
@@HarryS77 thought I remembered reading something like that. Super disturbing stuff. Just think about all those victims of police violence whose families will never get justice.
What got about Ben Garrison was the cartoon he drew in response to the murder of George Floyd called Badge of Dishonor where he criticised the police and sympathised with George Floyd. It was genuinely surprising that he'd draw that cartoon. That the death of George Floyd was so unjustifiable that not even Ben Garrison could condone it. Of course, normal service has been resumed since then, including digs at BLM since the event that gave BLM a point.
I had some genuine hope at that point. Even fox was talking about the murder with sympathy for Mr. Floyd. Then the propagandists doubled down with the excuses.
That reminds me of when _Dry Bones_ wrote after the Sabra and Shatila massacre that "we all have something to atone for this Yom Kippur." Which is the only time I ever saw him criticize Israel for anything, or even accept that any criticism might be valid and not just "Jew hatred".
@@dwc1964 "we all have something to atone for this Yom Kippur." That looks less like criticism and more like apologia. Yeah, Israel might have done this morally questionable thing, but haven't we _all_ done morally questionable things? At least with Ben, he made no excuses for the police.
The mention of Dry Bones was interesting. I got a book about Jewish humor for my Bar Mitzvah and Dry Bones is mentioned in it. It was a great example of how to be painfully unfunny.
@@justadude1049 Well, I'd say more businessman than economist, but I suppose there are some intersecting ideas between those fields such as supply/demand, scarcity, etc. Then again Trump started out in real estate so it's not entirely the same.
That and he also refuses to take the vaccine. Good grifters know that the vax actually works, yet Benny boy decided beet juice and Ivermectin are the best solution.
You don’t have to like Citizen Kaine, but stating for a fact that it’s an objectively terrible movie because you personally found it to be boring is fucking stupid holy shit. Also it probably lines up pretty well with his politics as well, what with being the story of a corrupt press baron. Y’know maybe there’s a reason it’s remembered as one of the most influential movies of all time. It gives me major “Shakespeare is bad because I didn’t like reading the Taming of the Shrew in middle school” vibes.
Calling Citizen Kane boring ignores the historical context that it pioneered several filmic techniques and editing styles that had never been seen before. Compared to the shit that came before, it's a visually dynamic masterpiece. Dude should have read the Wikipedia page first or something.
@@MissionHomeowner I didn't love it but I was like 16 when I watched it for a film course I did. But I appreciate it's significance. Maybe I'll rewatch it one day.
God this video gave me PTSD flashbacks of me browsing the SA Political comics thread. Jesus christ, AF Branco, Ted Rall, Eric Allie, McKee, Ramirez, what a bunch of hacks
@@hihohe4067 Who's the comic that draws all his characters as absolutely vile disgusting creatures, even the ones he agreed with? I remember especially a goon making a Gif of that cartoonist's Obama that's walking around using its ears as feet.
@@hihohe4067 Nah, Bob Gorrell's works are usually lazy but they more often resemble the person in question than not. His Obama had big ears, but I don't think they were ever that long. It was either Ramirez or Branco, the first one being incapable of drawing a human face to save his own life, the second one is so filled with a vile hatred of others that it bleeds into the images he makes of those he agrees with.
I always thought the 'best' political cartoonists were those like Gary Larson, Garry Trudeau, or really a lot of those that work in publication media. Their strips weren't meant to 'be' political, but they could reflect their beliefs and views, creatively through the story telling. There really is no talent involved in political comics. They all really boil down to two camps; either you need the politics explained, so the single panel becomes a just a wall of text of information, around cartoons. Or they tap into a hivemind and just mash talking points together, and associate them to recognizable caricatures.
I regret to say I was an intern at the Jerusalem Post and in the room they put the interns in, there were Dry Bones drawings on the walls, always looking down on us.
Ted Rall shitting on Art Spiegelman is so hilariously absurd. Art Spiegelman spent 13 years writing and drawing a biography about his father's experiences as a polish jew during the holocaust that has since been recognized as a masterpiece and winning a Pulitzer for it. Ted Rall is just makes unbearably smug cartoonist that shoots himself in the foot at every opportunity.
@Beligerent Barrage you seem to understand more about the guys points then I do, can you explain to me how the guy meant that black people were criminals at 7:05
@@valentina98273it looks more like if the police get defunded, then they can no longer hold the criminals from running loose. I don’t really see how black people entered this conversation.
The fact that Dry Bones even exist with moderate recognition depletes my hope in humanity a little. It basically goes to show it doesn't matter the quality of your opinion, as long as other people agree with it, they'll overlook everything else.
Heck, not just with political cartoons, unfortunately. From music, to comedy, to movies, etc. All the average person truly wants is just for their thoughts to be validated.
@@BIGBLUBLUR well we kinda design in that way i mean think about it we come from a species who existed 250 thousand years and most of those times we are hunter gatherer and the slow development of tech mean we reverse back to our instinct and stuff to survive and thrive
@@rayswarnau3868 I'd argue that Stonetoss's comics can fall under the category of bad comics: although more in the sense that even if the artwork is the least eye gouging: it stills has bad takes, bad positions of argument, bad faith intent and literally simps for Nazi's.
@@krakixel Nah, you want waaaaay worse? May I tell you about Hedgewik. He’s like StoneToss, but less skilled at art and even less subtle about his Nazi beliefs.
Grumble Tum is a master class in manipulation. It gets my feels every time. It's a great example of how easy it is to trigger irrational thought. Nice work @Thought Slime
@@TheXello The best part is that when he was introduced, it was literally by saying that he is a character meant to manipulate your feelings so you like, comment, and subscribe, and it still works. Kinda scary, actually. Does this mean Mildred is an evil genius?
In the Dry Bones begging for change comic, he wrote "JIGGLE JIGGLE" under the change mug instead of "JINGLE JINGLE" and that is the funniest thing he will ever do.
Cup physics have come a long way
Yaakov Kirschen has no excuse for his weird English diction and strange mistakes like "JIGGLE JIGGLE" -- the guy was born in New York City in 1931 and moved to Israel in 1971. At most he should be writing "on line" instead of "in line" and other New Yorkisms, instead he sounds like a Sabra (I thought he had immigrated from Europe in the late 1940s.)
All I can imagine is a cup made of jelly now, it's completely empty and that little orange sweater wearing self insert shaking it at me.
if y'all weren't so dead sure that it's a mistake i'd almost think it had something to do with the fact that jiggling a cup full of change is one of the most common and straightforward ways to get said jingle jingle out of said cup full of change but since there's NO way to tell that he's jiggling the cup I must fall in line
oh but wait
he's asking for money
his cup is literally empty
there is nothing to jingle jingle when he jiggle jiggles it. what a fool i have been. an absolute nimrod. just a
just a real maroon
i shoulda thought out what I was gonna say before i said it, now i'm no better than the man himself!
what a fate!
i'm glad i'm the only one here who
said something without thinking about it first! i wouldn't wish this on anyone
As a former MS Paint artist exclusively, I can confirm Dry Bones was 99% certainly made in MSP or a similar program.
It is that flat, featureless look with unaliased edges and nonexistent shading.
Dry Bones is clearly a direct rip-off of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
@@NimhLabs I CAN'T ESCAPE I CAN'T ESCAPEEEEEEEE
Katrina Payne it keeps happening.
@@peace_n_love SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPP
I spent years thinking Ben Garrison was a brilliant liberal satirist making fun of right wing political cartoonists. It blew my mind to find out he was actually being sincere with that ridiculous shit.
@@lukasthesmileyguy8126 yeah I did. I didn't read his stuff daily, but whenever I saw one it was a perfect satire of how the GOP was thinking. I only found out recently that he was actually a right wing nut job.
@@Nozoki Is everyone who's right wing a nut job to you? It should've been obvious from day one that any and all politicians are enemies and that political cartoonists are always weird idiots.
That's Kelly from the Onion
@@Nozoki I was the same with alex jones
@@blacktiger974 Alex Jones is the love child of Art Bell and Rush Limbaugh. If you put his segments in any sketch comedy show and it would kill. Figuratuvely!!! Like, as in dying from laughter. Not like his current show, which literally gets people killed(allegedly).
I did actually guess that the image was AOC, not because I looked anything like her mind you, it was just a woman drawn by a conservative political cartoonist so AOC is like the safest guess.
the hairstyle tipped me off
same. but also, she was kind of brown but not super-brown.
@@shoesncheese fitting that you have a newspaper comic profile pic!
Clinton would actually have been the _safest_ bet sight unseen, but right-wing political cartoonists care WAY too much about race to draw Clinton that dark.
I saw the flower and earing, and realized there was only one Hispanic woman in politics a conservative would bother going to the effort to stereotype in a drawing
You suggesting that there is someone worse than Ben Garrison makes me want to click away as soon as possible, but... I dare to gaze into the abyss.
Abyss: “do you mind…? Kinda busy causing existential despair here.”
Abyss: "Can't an endless void of unending dread and unease take a crap in peace?"
Abyss: "When your eyeballs stare into me, my eyeballs stare back... Here in the eyeball zone."
Oh hell no. Like, that's where I want to get off this ride.
How do you feel now, comrade?
I do love people trying to make puns on “politically incorrect” that actually make them sound like they’re describing themselves as being wrong. Comically incorrect shows up in this one, but I’ve also seen “politically right, not correct”
isn’t “politically right, not correct” literally what they think political correctness is
"Political, yes. Correct, no."
Man, and I just spent a lot of this morning looking at those "look how much my art improved in ten years!" tweets. Then you show my Dry Bones.
Ayy Keith
Huh?
bruh moment
???
@@iguessmynamesriya7658 homestuck? 😳
To be fair, "comically incorrect" was a genuine compliment to the comics in question.
Because it implies that they are funny? Or because it implies that they are comics? Or both?
@@TheGyrocop Because it implies that they’re just so bad and incorrect that they’re funny. Almost as if it was satire. It really says something about a political cartoonist when them accidentally implying that it’s satire makes them look better than saying it’s real…
@@TheGyrocop His political statements aren't just incorrect. They're *_COMICALLY_* incorrect.
I remember in high school civics when we had to analyze a political cartoon and we all collectively called it “mad ramblings”
Sure we're taking about the worst political cartoonists, but I think it's unanimous who's the best.
Kelly from The Onion.
Correct.
HA HA HA... YES!
Rap Band
and he doesn't even need color
Thought Slime is of course the latest of many to snub Kelly
There's nothing worse than an artist publicly declaring that the praise given to another artist should be given to them, instead. Just repress that shit like the rest of us artists do and draw some big butts.
And don't lie about liking those butts OR be conservative with the S I Z E of drawn butts. Actually,.....you're new task is to say, or think the phrase "Of drawn butts" randomly once a day.
Lana del rey
@@CJ-qg7de Yeah, I think we can all agree Lana del Rey probably should shut up and just draw big butts.
same and draw people your jealous unflatteringly.
@@jkclark5204 what
I love Ben Garrison because he makes so much meme material. The excessive labeling screams "Change me!" to make an entirely new context.
cum car: you’ll never be a real car.
piss car: shivering
I love it when people change any and all white fluid in his comics (usually foamy sea water) to be labeled "cum" lol
ted rall is really not doing much to dispute the “lefties can’t meme without writing out giant paragraphs” stereotype lol
I didn’t even get where that stereotype came from until I saw one of his comics
Todd Rill is an awful, awful person
@@PvblivsAelivs why would they sadly some likely do, but you expect an lgbt+ person to accept the lgb crap?! Thats just transphobia.
Also every community has drama. And very different people. But pretty sure most call that out.
Rall is an embarissing bad cartoonist, but there are worse things, he should really critizized as that.
I mean rall has better text than the later ones , but horrible flow and akward.
Rall did a lot of good fighting police corruption. Got blacklisted and sued for it.
Problematic comment, but on the side of justice.
@Hunter Rayna I mean, that's what the liberal political machine has been doing for the last 20 years... giving lip service to racial issues by doing idpol.
I'm a leftie, and want lefty policies to succeed.
That includes understanding what real intersectional politics are, instead of accepting false promises and surface inclusion from mainstream movers and shakers.
Ben Garrison seems like a fetish artist who is trying desperately to channel all of his horniness into extremely conservative comics, but even that can't always keep him at bay. And in a few years, I expect Michael Ramirez's style of drawing people to become just a single vertical line with a circle near the top to represent the ear.
There's a reason Garrison cum edits are so common /j
Hey, you just found the gateway to the conservative -> 4chan gateway!
Shadman’s equal opposite
I literally saw Australia kangaroo vore from him or something😭😭😭
@@jackattack2823 SHOW LINK
5:08 You can't tell me this is a comic. These are fucking paragraphs with illustrations. Dude literally wrote his thoughts out in Times New Roman and then copy-pasted them into MS paint and patted himself on the back for a job well done.
The comic isn’t even funny or informative it’s just yapping
Ben is only so (in)famous because he's so memeable. Everyone else is just sad.
Back when I was still on Twitter, there was a whole thread of Garrison cartoons edited so that the characters were saying, "This nigga eatin' beans!"
The cum edits of Ben Garrison’s works are beautiful
Garrison's original infamy came from 4chan's /pol/ board making highly offensive edits of his comics. He used to get angry, like frothingly mad, at it and that only encouraged the edits.
It, uh, seems to have eventually broke his brain around the time Trump started his campaign, and he suddenly was in the same boat as /pol/ in wanting the spray tan in the office. Sad!
@Tyler the Destroyer so basically, 4chan ruined another human being
r/bengarrisoncumedits
I actually did guess that AOC one. Only because it looked like a caricature of a latina woman, and I figured to conservatoid weirdos the fact that she is latina would be her most distinguishing physical feature.
No way I did the same thing by the same logic
same here.
Same, sadly.
Same. WAR magazine used to use a very similar depiction for Latino women for their racist comics.
WAR went down like 30 years ago, yet their comics, and the style they created, is still what is used by these types of cartoonists today.
I got Frida Kahlo somehow
Drybones called Bernie Sanders anti-Semitic.
Bernie Sanders is Jewish.
I thought he was white
@@merchant3899 You can be Jewish and white at the same time.
@@merchant3899Not to sound like someone who gets offended over everything but I hope that’s a joke
@@merchant3899 "I'm lesbian." "I thought you were American."
I thought he was Atheist.
The focus on political cartoonists only really addresses half of the issue.
A lot of political cartoonists double as what you'd call "Boomer Comic" makers. For the uninitiated few out there, Boomer Comics mostly make commentary on life in the 2020s through the lens of middle-aged resentment and both social and technological isolation. Classics in the genre involve any visual gag that involves someone's spouse being a casual alcoholic or mentioned as being the object of hatred, any gag that satirizes the use of smartphones or other items of mobile tech, or any commentary on the supposed "destruction" of social or gender norms.
A lot of them feel like they're trying to channel Bizarro - albeit very, very poorly.
Wife bad, phone bad, beer good
I hate boomer humor...do you know any examples of artists who are doing both? I want to look them up. It would explain an awful lot about political cartoons.
@@rachelagron3414 Bill Whitehead comes to mind. I don't think he's syndicated, I've only found reposts of his work on Boomer Comic Reddits and on his own Facebook group dedicated to his strip, Free Range.
I've always suspected that a lot of editorial cartoonists keep Boomer comics as an unpaid, anonymous side-line, as hard as it is to get a bead on creators.
Hey hey, don't throw us middle aged Gen Xers into the "boomer" category.
Totally different generations.
@@jcspoon573 No worries; Gen Xers are less prone to caterwauling, in my experience. Boomers tend to be in their late sixties and early seventies, of late. Some of my Gen X cousins can match Boomers in technophobia, but it's about where the buck stops.
For reference, I'm currently 38 years old and mostly fall in the Old Millennial category.
Ben Garrison is truly a waste of talent. His artstyle is really good and he's good in making his drawings resemble people. Yet his comics are very heavyhanded and in-your-face. He don't NEED to draw people's names.
aren't his cartoons parodies of political cartoons tho?
@@Starkillerscat they are very much sincere
How did I know he was going to come up?
his art is very much not good though lol
@@Starkillerscat I wish.
I checked out Kirschens newer stuff, and goddamn
It’s somehow both denying genocide and celebrating genocide at the same time can’t make this shit up
“Any/all pronouns” is so powerful like thonkus sleemus literally cannot be misgendered
imposter
I chose not to refer to ______ at all.
no but i can and will use zero pronouns for thonkus
"Did you just assume my gender? Because you'd be right!"
Because they're only two
I once had a thought "I should learn to draw so I could do political cartoons"
Thanks to this video, I now know I don't have to!
Who gave you that idea? (The Drawing without learning how to draw part)
ACTUALLY I figured it out. Michael Ramirez's "ultra-styled" style looks like he did that drawing exercise where you draw something with your non-dominant hand, and then just kept that as the final artwork.
I think you will be delighted to know that MS Paint allows gradients now, so.... mystery solved! (Also semi-transparent brushes for that artistic flare! Do we even NEED Photoshop any more?)
I know my broke ass relies on MS Paint to a ridiculous level.
@@sanityisrelative Yeah I'm a bit pissed off at Adobe I've had creative suites and real versions going way back and I wanted to re-register an older version cause I just don't have much money lately and they pretend they can't find my old accounts :/ I was hoping I could try and get back on my feet after a massive trauma. Death by a thousand papercuts and adobe is like 20 of them at least.
@@sanityisrelative Have you tried GIMP?
Even if in the past people were reliant on Adobe, there is a lot of alternatives to it now a days. MS Paint sadly, is a little obtuse, and if you dedicate yourself to your art, its not a end be all. As much stuff that you can give GIMP, its free and its a middle step towards a better direction.
wait what? since when? Why is mspaint still getting updates?
Mallard Fillmore is worth checking out due to how awful it is. The artist is still making "metrosexual" jokes as of 2020 and that's not even the most embarrassing part
Oh God so true
They're in my local newspaper and GOD are they awful
I geuinely thought you were taliking about the president for a second and thought, "What kind of 19th century buffoonery did I miss?"
I was going to mention this. I must admit I find it somewhat admirable that someone can get away with selling the same picture of a duck for weeks on end while just ripping takes/jokes from r/libertarian.
I've heard Dry Bones mentioned twice outside of Mario, and both times it astounds me how bad their art is
My god the walls of text in Rall's comics is giving me big "Bad 2000's Video Game Webcomic" vibes.
One of my "favorite" rall moments is the 'Fat Teacher' comic he did in response to a news story about a teacher trying to defend students from a tornado, saying she had to be super fat in order to protect them from being whisked away (obviously the only sole dangerous thing about tornadoes, no way was she possibly defending them from flung debris), all because he was so so upset that there was someone being called a hero who wasn't Ted Rall.
Ted Rall truly is concentrated envy in human form
The editing in this video is spectacular! Fun from start to finish!
Wait, nerdsync? How ya doing
Yes.
Oh shit nerdsyncs here, love your videos
Politic
Love that the TH-cam algorithm has pushed this to the front for a lot of people because it scanned the transcript and noticed references to Palestine so it thinks it is about the new war
Oh dang. Yeah. Wondering why I had this pop up in my feed again.
Tech is scary and weird.
Dry Bones is indeed shitty, but I'm grateful for its lack of horniness. I'm just so tired of being made aware of Ben Garrison's fetishes 😩
I'm glad you don't know who SqrlyJack is
@@Ang3lUki who
5:08 This makes the "Left can't meme" walls of text look like a neat thick business card with a subtle off-white coloring and a watermark
As if stripping the nuance from an issue is something to be proud of.
@@donovanmahan2901 nuance is very important, but online leftists do have a problem with lack of brevity. i feel like there's ways to have both brevity and nuance, as opposed to copying a paragraph of a book written 100 years ago and pasting it onto a picture of an opossum.
As an avid left-tube viewer with ADHD, I agree there is a big problem with brevity. Like I love Philosopytube and HBomb and many other video essayists who tackle really interesting and important topics, but I can barely get through their videos because they're so long. I wish there were more leftist content creators who would put out videos that were short (like 10-20min) that I could pay attention to all the way through and learn
*Proceeds to write a Left-Wing meme*
-Copy and Paste any Marxist Book upon an Image of Karl Marx (with a speech bubble and all)
-Win
@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270 you see, if a statement is too brief, it can border on bigotry. Too detailed, and it gets hard to read.
I legitimately disappointed that your comparison of things bigger than an elephant did not end with “your mother”
I hoped it would be the guy behind Dry Bones. His comics have ruined a number of reference image searches for me just because I get blind-sided by garbage when I'm trying to draw a skeleton turtle from Mario :(
I figured nobody else had seen it. I'm glad I'm not alone but I weep for all of us.
A skelerex? Searching this I only get mario stuff haha
@@PetitPoneyDuVercors26 I looked it up and that seems to be the French name for Dry Bones? That's pretty cool! The German names for the little guy are really funny; "Knochentrocken" (Dry as a Bone) and "Skelett-Koopa". I hope our Skelerex fan finds these new names helpful! If not, maybe just adding "Mario" to the search will narrow it down
@@neferacronia6798
Yes I'm french so I know them by the name skelerex, "squelette" is skeleton and the rex is from T rex (same term in french and english) I think (quite a dinosaurs feel in the bowser's minions designs)
The german name seems to be constructed in a similar way too with skeleton term base
Dry bones I felt sad about this name, skelerex works too in english 😂😂
lmao that is a hilariously specific way to be angry about a political cartoonist
Tip: do Dry Bones “Mario”. That should help.
Ted Ralls drawing what is CLEARLY Saving Private Ryan as a cite for "blind american exceptionalism" is...fucking wild as hell to me because, like...
Saving Private Ryan depicts the glorious heroism that we're taught about as it actually was: A brutal, horrifying meat grinder, where men were blown apart without rhyme or reason, where nobility and sacrifice just led to death, death, and more death, and finally, where two laughing, jeering Americans GUN DOWN SURRENDERING SLAVE-SOLDIERS who are DESPERATELY trying to say "we're not Germans, we're Czech"
Like...
Come on, my dude!???
it makes you realize conservatives aren't the brightest candles of the cake, especially when it comes to comedy or satyre.
@@staC-wh6ik he's *supposed to be* a leftist
Too bad SPR's subtext clasehes with that, damn, what a frustrating film once the opening stops...
@@kostajovanovic3711 Yeah...though, I think that you are supposed to come away with a distinctly ambivalent feeling. Since, like, a bunch of people die to save one person...feels kind of like a waste of lives.
That might just be me though >.>
Watched this one like three times and entirely missed Ted Rall's "Adolfa" comic. Now that I've seen it I would love it if through some circumstance Ted Rall was no longer capable or willing to pick up a pencil and draw.
yeah, but it's profoundly sad...like maybe we can think of him as the Phantome in that Opera play... lol
I thought stonetoss might get a mention, but then it said "non-Nazi". But no joke, when you said there there were worse cartoonists than Ben Garrison, I got a jolt of morbid curiosity.
Thought Slime did a video on Stone Toss and, if I remember correctly, he finds him to be a pretty effective propagandist. So I don't think he'd go down as one of the "worst" political cartoonists anyway, given the definition Thought Slime's going with here.
@@DanCicala I just rewatched the stonetoss video, and yeah he's not a bad political cartoonist, he's a bad person but he is good at conveying his awful ideas through cartoons.
@@largin386 "some beliefs" he's literally a nazi, wtf are you talking about some beliefs, lmao
@@inigo137 POV: you don't know what a nazi is
@@brennanrogers2525 I think the one who doesn't know what a nazi is it's you bud. Probably cause you a re so use to it.
The rest of the normal world doesn't seem denying the holocaust and saying that Jews control everything very normal.
mildred, you don't even know though; i literally get paid to draw big ol' keisters at least once a month. this was a mistake on your part
Do it technopoptart. Do it
Do it
Ben "I need to label everything because my audience is a stupid lot" Garrison takes the current cake for me because of his popularity.
idk if it counts but it’s stonetoss for me. Ben Garrison has a weird charm to him, like peering into the way his incredibly stupid brain works is weirdly fascinating. stonetoss hurts in every way
EDIT: nvm, missed the “Non-Nazi Edition” subtitle
Boy you aint seen george alexopoulos.
You missed the "*Non-Nazi edition" on the title card.
@@thejudge1728 ah, i genuinely did miss that lmao
Nah not really, I've seen leftists agree with stonetoss in more than one instance, but I've never seen a leftist agree with garrison. But hey, I also don't think either of them are neonazis.
@@Bruh-el9js 👎
Ben Garrisons labelling is probably the best thing about his work, it's a direct reflection of the intelligence of his audience
@chad kaminski how is this vague?
@chad kaminski it wasn't a joke and I don't remember explicitly saying anything about IQ. You aren't helping your case by conflating IQ and the more generalised concept of intelligence :o
@chad kaminski LMAO
Can confirm, Im unintelligent audience
@@beckenhamboy1995 woah bud you're getting awfully close to sounding like a pretentious left wing political cartoonist. you got what he meant, and you're nit picking about the terminology used, the words are interchangeable in regular speech
I love how outta everything showcased in this video that aged poorly, MSPaint not having layers is the one I noticed immediately.
I had the great privilege of meeting Art spiegleman when he visited my college and taking part in a small lecture and Q&A session with him (where he introduced me to the idea of HoloKitch when talking about the depiction of the Holocaust in modern media). He is such an amazing thoughtful artist who really poured his soul into Maus and his other works, and that single shot of the cartoonist making fun of maus makes me so irrationally angry lol
Like I've only seen analysis of Maus, but to try and say they're better than something so... yeah I got mad too
Tim rall is the bad future version of me. He's me if I didn't learn healthy coping mechanisms for feelings of inadequacy and instead let them fester until I was blaming every other content creator for my lack of success in art/videos/streaming
Must admit. The Maus thing was stupid in trivializing it. It takes guts to put out something raw and with such
full on immersion in an original approach. Spiegleman goes way back to the beginnings in Underground comics. Ted Rall was wearing a diaper then. Kinda like a bushy haired Hippie acid rock guitarist dissing an old Bluesman.
Great choice of topic! This "art" never fails to cause me to immediately and uncontrollably scream profanity at whatever screen I see it on.
2:49 YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID
As a former Jpost reporter, I absolutely second your choice, and I'm glad to see yaakov is finally receiving the recognition his "work" deserves.
I didn’t get far enough into the video and assumed you were talking about the prolific war criminal yakko from the animaniacs
Have you considered that maybe Grumbletum needs actual food in addition to the Likes, Comments, Subscriptions, and Patreons that he also clearly needs? Maybe try an orange, that's a nice fruit :D
You know nothing of woodland critter husbandry if you think that.
@@ThoughtSlime perhaps a handful of acorns then? As a treat, to go along with the Likes, Comments, Subscribes, and Patreons that Grumbletum clearly needs too.
@@TheDaniel9 I think the Patreon *is* the treat, with likes, comments, and subscriptions being the main sustenance. But I’m not an expert on woodland creature husbandry either, so maybe I’m also wrong.
what if I only comment foods from now on? will that save the grumbletum?
I'm insulted by this
There was this one comic with a train going to socialism and catboys, and the replies were just people saying they’d jump on the train in a heartbeat
Disgusting.
I only jump on trains if theyre about to run over russian peacekeepers 😎
BOMBARASSSSS - I just come to look up in Slime beautiful face and den I look at the description and see my prolix name 😩first Khadija, now you?! Yuh ga give me a heart attack 😂Thank you so much, comrade. In the words of the ever problematic Morrissey, now my heart is full ❤️💜💙
Update: thots & prayers to big booty loving Ben (this may or may not be satire)
Omg CONGRATS!!!!
@@ForeignManinaForeignLand You are entering a world not of mind but of sight, a mysterious abyss that watches you 👀 long after you yourself have looked away...
@@AmanirenaII AMANIRENA! Ah YOU DAT?! Lol fancy seeing yuh here. Yuh have good taste ❤️ thank you so much, mon ami
@@thefrantasticmissfine *I say, in an aside to myself* breathe easy, Foreign 😮💨wooosaahhhh - this is really happening
I know mildred said "ladies, gentlemen, and nb's" but the CC's said "enemies" so now I can think of my non-binary gender as being an enemy of gender and I like it...
Too soon, comrade! Not yet!
sounds stupid
The gender-critical crowd think so. AKA the TERFs.
Oh cool, I was wondering what that meant as I rely on the subtitles and was mildly confused. I am also an enemy of gender.
What's stopping you from actually becoming an enemy of gender
3:43 The funniest part about this political cartoon is that Abraham Lincoln was a fan of Karl Marx and his work so most leftists don't dislike Lincoln lmfao
I would consider myself closer to a Conservative and I like Abraham Lincoln, not so much the guys before and after him
He also was in the progressive party of his time.
Still outdated by modern prospectives, but that's progress for you.
@UnkillableJay - There were school board members in San Francisco trying to rename Abraham Lincoln High School. There had been a battle of Native Americans and the U.S. Army and the Army wanted to execute all the captured prisoners. Lincoln intervened and pardoned most of the prisoners, but not all of them. The "not all of them" is why they wanted to cancel him.
These same people wanted to rename a separate school because they found a guy on Wikipedia with the same surname as the school who was a racist. They didn't bother to figure out who the school was actually named after.
Excesses like these have helped the right wing and their terrible cartoonists.
Deadass I had no idea "Branco" was a man's name I thought it was shorthand for "Bran Company" like that was some kind of publisher for a random weirdo's political cartoons
What about like Branko Mercitic?
Branco also means white in Portuguese.
Oh shit, so the guy is essentially like A. Wyatt Man
Oh my god Dry Bones, I can’t believe you’ve heard of it. It’s absolutely the worst, it gets put in our weekly shul newsletter and it is mind numbingly bad every time.
What’s a shul
@@voiceofreason2674 it means synagogue. It’s the ashkenazi way of saying it.
@@mrzev5926 ok I looked it up the end of the word ashkenazi had me worried this was some alt rite dog whistle
@@voiceofreason2674 I have seen people online accusing Jewish people of being nazis because they said they were Ashkenazi, so I'm really glad you googled first.
The title should be:
Who is the worst? Political cartoonists
That whole "Citizen Kane is boring" thing pisses me off to great extent. First of all, that's a personal, subjective opinion. Ebert was trying to argue the objective merits of Citizen Kane, but this guy went "yeah, I agree, but I think it's boring therefor it sucks."
It could be fine from an entertainment to analysis to film theory, and then one side saying its boring, but its a big piece of film history too.
There is an angle to poke fun at but that isnt it.
I agree with this. I personally find the film to be very boring to watch and kind of overrated but you can't deny it's historic value and the impact it has had on cinema.
@@marocat4749 Eh, as time goes on those so called classics of cinema history become more of a chore and less relevant. Humans just won’t be capable anyway if viewing everything “classic”.
@@asmrtpop2676 it was a trendsetter like evangelion.
And i didnt watch it but it has aplace, that people dont have to watch, and unless you do media studies, no one should be forced to.
No one should be forced, but if not, but not forme should be way more common added to ots boring. Even if you dont care there, knowing other perspective exist is an exercise in empathy we as society need.
Just boring without not for me or other reasonsmentioned showing people actually watched it, is personally dismissable as criticism. And learning to critizize better, is good for everyone.
Ok sorry for the rant, i guess its for the discouse
and that engaging there can give life lessons like, people think different, its fine, things change a lot. Broadening your view on the world. That ot can ruv off positively to teach respect in doscoirce, and negatively just saying boring without a hint why.
Here’s the thing about photoshop: if you have “sample all layers” checked on the fill tool it’ll recognize the text.
This TH-camr here is like a smaller Version of Hbomberguy... nice!
@@nenmaster5218 what a idd and suspicious comment. Who are you referring to?
It's weird that Ben sexualizes the very women in power who he's against.
nothing weird, you just haven't listened to enough of zizek's lectures about movies made by pervert directors or whatever lacanians talk about
@@heartache5742 Will it make me understand weird pervert like Ben?
@@pikachuneoncat6480 probably yeah
i reserve psychoanalysis for people i dislike
@@heartache5742 lmao
I don't want to say that it's not weird, but it _does_ make sense from the wrong perspective. Sexuality isn't always about pleasure or admiration; sometimes it's a matter of control, dominance, power. Sexualizing women Ben doesn't like could be an attempt to diminish them, to reduce them to sexual objects rather than subjects capable of expressing contrary opinions.
Or maybe he's just horny.
As someone who lazily slaps together stupid memes in MSPaint all the time, as soon as I saw those fill tool issues I knew that guy had to be using MSPaint.
Hell I barely even touched proper image editing software and I could tell it was mspaint. At least I got a chuckle out of his dumbass mistakes.
actually, I have another theory. Considering how long he's been around he probably still draws his comics on paper (text included) and then scans them in. Doesn't matter what type of editing software you use from there you'll get the same results with the fill tool.
@@Nirual86 I suspect that's not the case. The text looks very regular so it's likely a computer font. You can compare it to the text saying "RABBI" at 11:33. That text is far less regular and thus likely made by hand (whether on paper or with software), likely because the text is at an angle.
8:27
I'm from Israel, and my friend thinks that Yaakov's style is deliberate.
She said that in Israel, it's mainstream the idea that "the content is more important then the visuals" in caricatures.
She said that Yaakov's main problem is the content
It does seem very dry and repetitive, with no real variety of topic or substance. Why can't the guy make a cartoon about tax reform or something?
@@charliekahn4205
Because it's not a huge topic of discussion in Israel.
@@charliekahn4205
It's repetitive about what?
Because if it's about the stuff that Thought slime showed, then these topics are popular to talk about in Israel.
Moaning and complaining about these stuff.
The problem is, if you're using a visual medium like cartoons, the art has to play a part in your message. If Yaakov doesn't think the art is important, he should write essays, not cartoons. Imagine a movie with flat, boring, repetitive scenes, and the director comes out and says "It's not the scenes, it's the dialogue." Might as well write an audiobook or radio drama if you don't plan on shooting footage.
I love how conservatives think liberals are communists
for us communists, be called liberal is outrageous
Ya you lack the basic intelligence to be a liberal. Maybe when you grow up you can become a real leftist like us
@@vondas1480That was incredibly rude and unnecessary
@@vondas1480Why are you even watching an anarchist's videos if you're some boring liberal conservative whatever (it's all the same anyway)
@@joaquinvideo2959 low IQ people are funny ☺️
@@vondas1480 Then look in a mirror, it'll send you into hysteria
Imagine walking into someone's passover seder and they pull out the Dry Bones Haggadah. 😂
I'm sorry, I know it's not the purpose of the video, but Citizen Kane is one of those films that reads better from a leftist perspective. It gets somewhat explicitly anti-capitalist in multiple places, especially considering the final confrontation between Kane and Walter Thatcher (the banker character who raises Kane at the behest of his mother). Kane says in simple terms that if he hadn't been rich, he would've been a better person, and if he could do it all again, he would represent everything Thatcher hated. This, coupled with how isolated Kane is by his wealth and Welles' own progressive politics, adds to a firm Marxist reading of the text.
Ted Rall is dumb for that and the rest of the Ebert, considering he also stood up for progressive causes and celebrated anti-establishment films. Films such as The Battle of Algiers, Battleship Potemkin, Guelwaar, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Blade Runner (yeah, way to use his review for the botched theatrical cut to misrepresent his feelings, Rall), Samurai Rebellion, and M. I know this is going to be lost in the sea of comments and is me showcasing my Ebert love to an irrational degree. However, my man deserved better than being written off by a guy whose big-brain take was "Citizen Kane is boring."
Even without the leftist take, the themes and story of Citizen Kane are compelling. The power of the press and how Kane thought he could turn that into his own personal power, how Kane's personal power had limits, like failing hard at politics or how he could buy his wife an opera house but couldn't make her a talented and celebrated opera signer.
I had never watched Citizen Kane before because I assumed, being an olde-timey movie, that it would be boring to me, someone who has generally been bored to death by other movies from that era.
And then a few years ago I actually watched it for the first time, and was shocked to discover that it is, actually, _incredibly_ compelling! Turns out Orson Welles pioneered a lot of modern cinema techniques, so Citizen Kane feels like a modern film instead of an ancient dusty relic. If Ted Rall didn't find it engaging, I can only conclude that either he wasn't paying attention to the movie, or he was too dumb to understand what was going on.
Kane is one of my two favourite films. I agree with everything you said about it. I'd always thought that it kept getting placed at the top of lists because it was 'coasting', but when I finally sat down and watched it maybe ten years ago, I realised it's a phenomenal work of art.
Beyond being an excellent work of art, It's also simply entertaining and gripping. Odd choice of film to describe as a museum piece...
Being aware of who Hearst was, and the historical events he played a part in, helped a lot in making the film very compelling to watch. That got me to watch it, but honestly as soon as I was 5-10 minutes in it was immediately apparent why it was so significant from a filmmaking perspective... the cinematography and level of visual playfulness is off the charts for something from that time period, and I completely get why it was as revolutionary back then as Star Wars was in 79, or The Wizard of Oz, etc. It's really a great movie that oughtn't bore anyone paying attention to it and interested in it. I disagree with you about Ebert (ie, see his Fight Club review), but that's just personal opinions, whatever...
YES I FOUND IT!! THIS was the video that turned me onto Foreign's channel!!! Thank you SO much for this!!!
7:20 A new study published in The Lancet found that police killings have been undercounted by 55% going back decades due to medical examiners and coroners mislabeling cause of death.
Not surprising. Didn't they try and mislabel George Floyd's death before we all saw him get murdered on video?
@@bS0up Yep yep.
@@bS0up NYT reports that expert testimony in favor of the initial ME report triggered an investigation of its own: "The former chief medical examiner of Maryland, Dr. David Fowler, was also criticized after he testified on behalf of the Minneapolis police officer, saying Mr. Floyd’s death was caused by several factors and was not a homicide.
After an open letter by Dr. Mitchell said that Dr. Fowler’s testimony revealed “obvious bias,” Maryland’s attorney general began a review of in-custody deaths that were handled under Dr. Fowler’s tenure."
The Times also mentions, "Researchers estimated that over the time period they studied, which roughly tracks the era of the war on drugs and the rise of mass incarceration, nearly 31,000 Americans were killed by the police, with more than 17,000 of them going unaccounted for in the official statistics. The study also documented a stark racial gap: Black Americans were 3.5 times as likely to be killed by the police as white Americans were."
Of course, being the NYT, that article also tries to offhandedly pin blame for homicides and crime on the defund movement, BLM, and social justice generally.
@@HarryS77 thought I remembered reading something like that. Super disturbing stuff. Just think about all those victims of police violence whose families will never get justice.
What got about Ben Garrison was the cartoon he drew in response to the murder of George Floyd called Badge of Dishonor where he criticised the police and sympathised with George Floyd. It was genuinely surprising that he'd draw that cartoon. That the death of George Floyd was so unjustifiable that not even Ben Garrison could condone it.
Of course, normal service has been resumed since then, including digs at BLM since the event that gave BLM a point.
Yes, this was surprising
I had some genuine hope at that point. Even fox was talking about the murder with sympathy for Mr. Floyd. Then the propagandists doubled down with the excuses.
Like a little glimpse of humanity before the propaganda took over
That reminds me of when _Dry Bones_ wrote after the Sabra and Shatila massacre that "we all have something to atone for this Yom Kippur."
Which is the only time I ever saw him criticize Israel for anything, or even accept that any criticism might be valid and not just "Jew hatred".
@@dwc1964 "we all have something to atone for this Yom Kippur."
That looks less like criticism and more like apologia. Yeah, Israel might have done this morally questionable thing, but haven't we _all_ done morally questionable things?
At least with Ben, he made no excuses for the police.
that starving woodland creature bit works surprisingly well
This video made me remember all the years I read the Political Comics thread, thanks for that Slime.
you will suffer with me.
The mention of Dry Bones was interesting. I got a book about Jewish humor for my Bar Mitzvah and Dry Bones is mentioned in it. It was a great example of how to be painfully unfunny.
That’s how you know you got a good one! :)
1:20 That's no moon. . . It's a space station.
So what?
@@dagtheking5739 he's quoting the movie dingus
Dry Bones’s art looks like it he kind of art that you’d see on grammar school classroom decorations lol.
you know Ben Garrison is deep in the Kool Aid if he's depicting Trump as a God.
im pro trump and all but i hate how he portrays trump as anything more than a economist
@@justadude1049 Well, I'd say more businessman than economist, but I suppose there are some intersecting ideas between those fields such as supply/demand, scarcity, etc. Then again Trump started out in real estate so it's not entirely the same.
That and he also refuses to take the vaccine. Good grifters know that the vax actually works, yet Benny boy decided beet juice and Ivermectin are the best solution.
@Graf von Losinj 😂😂😂 okay bruther
@@lukasthesmileyguy8126 what?
if yakov is an artist then i must be a world class artist
You don’t have to like Citizen Kaine, but stating for a fact that it’s an objectively terrible movie because you personally found it to be boring is fucking stupid holy shit.
Also it probably lines up pretty well with his politics as well, what with being the story of a corrupt press baron.
Y’know maybe there’s a reason it’s remembered as one of the most influential movies of all time. It gives me major “Shakespeare is bad because I didn’t like reading the Taming of the Shrew in middle school” vibes.
Honestly, that's all it is. "Citizen Kane is vegetables, and vegetables are yucky and YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LIKE THEM!"
Calling Citizen Kane boring ignores the historical context that it pioneered several filmic techniques and editing styles that had never been seen before.
Compared to the shit that came before, it's a visually dynamic masterpiece.
Dude should have read the Wikipedia page first or something.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 And it isn't boring.
@@MissionHomeowner I didn't love it but I was like 16 when I watched it for a film course I did. But I appreciate it's significance.
Maybe I'll rewatch it one day.
@@itcouldbelupus2842 Citizen Kane uses shot composition, mise en scene, and editing techniques that most movies don't have today.
Ted Rawls, I finally get the "leftist memes" joke.
If only there was one who still drawed like it was the 1600’s
God this video gave me PTSD flashbacks of me browsing the SA Political comics thread. Jesus christ, AF Branco, Ted Rall, Eric Allie, McKee, Ramirez, what a bunch of hacks
Greetings from the current SA Political Cartoons thread. These comic makers are still a blight on humanity.
@@hihohe4067 Who's the comic that draws all his characters as absolutely vile disgusting creatures, even the ones he agreed with? I remember especially a goon making a Gif of that cartoonist's Obama that's walking around using its ears as feet.
@@Sicktrees i think that was Bob Gorrell
@@hihohe4067 Nah, Bob Gorrell's works are usually lazy but they more often resemble the person in question than not. His Obama had big ears, but I don't think they were ever that long. It was either Ramirez or Branco, the first one being incapable of drawing a human face to save his own life, the second one is so filled with a vile hatred of others that it bleeds into the images he makes of those he agrees with.
@@DerWeasel7 I'm talking grosser than Ramirez. I'll have to hunt him down, but he was lesser known than the others.
11:51. The saddest part of this cartoon is that Dry Bones probably thought those dogs looked really realistic and fierce.
It’s literally the “I drew a super evil super fucked up version of the Hamburger Helper” meme istg
I always thought the 'best' political cartoonists were those like Gary Larson, Garry Trudeau, or really a lot of those that work in publication media. Their strips weren't meant to 'be' political, but they could reflect their beliefs and views, creatively through the story telling.
There really is no talent involved in political comics. They all really boil down to two camps; either you need the politics explained, so the single panel becomes a just a wall of text of information, around cartoons. Or they tap into a hivemind and just mash talking points together, and associate them to recognizable caricatures.
Some of those old Punch cartoons are pretty good, although maybe they were worse if you actually lived back then
Seeing an Eyeball Zone for a creator I'm already subscribed to makes me unreasonably proud for some reason.
What Patreon tier do I have to donate to to ensure that we actually get a ‘why pee pee is poo poo’ video
Seconding this question.
ironically those kelly cartoons from the onion are drawn better and funnier than actual political cartoons
I regret to say I was an intern at the Jerusalem Post and in the room they put the interns in, there were Dry Bones drawings on the walls, always looking down on us.
Ted Rall shitting on Art Spiegelman is so hilariously absurd. Art Spiegelman spent 13 years writing and drawing a biography about his father's experiences as a polish jew during the holocaust that has since been recognized as a masterpiece and winning a Pulitzer for it. Ted Rall is just makes unbearably smug cartoonist that shoots himself in the foot at every opportunity.
Dry Bones is prolly still made in MS Paint because they've updated and now you can airbrush and stuff
Obviously the worst political cartoonist is the one I agree with the least.
@Beligerent Barrage I hope you are joking
@Beligerent Barrage you seem to understand more about the guys points then I do, can you explain to me how the guy meant that black people were criminals at 7:05
@@valentina98273it looks more like if the police get defunded, then they can no longer hold the criminals from running loose. I don’t really see how black people entered this conversation.
Based
The fact that Dry Bones even exist with moderate recognition depletes my hope in humanity a little.
It basically goes to show it doesn't matter the quality of your opinion, as long as other people agree with it, they'll overlook everything else.
Heck, not just with political cartoons, unfortunately. From music, to comedy, to movies, etc. All the average person truly wants is just for their thoughts to be validated.
Dry Bones is funny
@@BIGBLUBLUR well we kinda design in that way i mean think about it we come from a species who existed 250 thousand years and most of those times we are hunter gatherer and the slow development of tech mean we reverse back to our instinct and stuff to survive and thrive
Me: "I just hate Ben Garrison, he's not a good guy"
Ben Garrison: *draws people with absolute dump trucks
me: "wait...maybe I was being too hasty"
i actually guessed it was AOC and i’m still shocked
Imagine reading Maus and coming away with the idea that "I can do better"... and then making all that
it's really sickening - but let's all remember, he's a walking metal case
5:00 I would pay good money for you to tell people to shut up in that same voice and same way I love it
At first I was like “Oh Stonetoss” but then you said non-nazi edition.
Stonetoss won’t be here because this is a list of bad cartoonists.
Yeah before clicking on the video I had my expectations for what we’d see but I think non-nazi edition made for a more interesting watch
@@rayswarnau3868 I'd argue that Stonetoss's comics can fall under the category of bad comics: although more in the sense that even if the artwork is the least eye gouging: it stills has bad takes, bad positions of argument, bad faith intent and literally simps for Nazi's.
I feel a sudden surge of confidence in my own artistic ability. Neat.
The editing in this is so good
5:57 what really annoys me about this is female Adolf Hitler already has an obvious name Adolfina, yet he's called her Adolfa! What is this guy on
I do like that you had to specify "non-nazi" to specifically exclude Stonetoss. Who is a nazi.
There's worse than stonetoss. Antoons is waaaay worse.
@@krakixel I hate that I know who/what that is now
rent free lol
@@krakixel Nah, you want waaaaay worse? May I tell you about Hedgewik. He’s like StoneToss, but less skilled at art and even less subtle about his Nazi beliefs.
@@bitchesbrew2315 Oh shit you right
Frankly, I've never known what to think about Mr. Spiegelman, but Maus is a legendary work and is worth a read.
The first ted comic that popped up was literally the meme about leftist memes being too wordy
I get the joke with Grumble Tum, but can we see him happy and healthy once in a while?
I mean if you want that, you know what you have to do.
Grumble Tum is a master class in manipulation. It gets my feels every time. It's a great example of how easy it is to trigger irrational thought. Nice work @Thought Slime
Thorb Slorb is our anarchist monarch of cute woodland critters who need our engagement molecules
@@TheXello The best part is that when he was introduced, it was literally by saying that he is a character meant to manipulate your feelings so you like, comment, and subscribe, and it still works. Kinda scary, actually. Does this mean Mildred is an evil genius?
Whenever I feel bad at my art I can just look at this video
"Comically Incorrect" feels like the same energy as "Obvious Plant"
holy fuck i just realized obvious plant actually meant something