Pot Shots
Cagle has a round-up of Michael Phelps pot cartoons titled "Phelps likes Pot."
Of the eleven cartoons featured, not one criticizes the media's obsession with celebrities, defends Phelps against prudish moralizing or says a word about our insane war on drugs. It's just gags about pot.
A "scandal" occurs and cartoonists put it through their gag cartoon processor without so much as bothering to add any commentary to the issue. Like Pavlov's Dogs, the media rings a bell and cartoonists mindlessly salivate.
Even the innocuous gag cartoons in the pages of The New Yorker feature comments and observations about life, business, culture and politics. These...they do nothing. What a complete and utter failure of a profession founded on satire.
Of the eleven cartoons featured, not one criticizes the media's obsession with celebrities, defends Phelps against prudish moralizing or says a word about our insane war on drugs. It's just gags about pot.
A "scandal" occurs and cartoonists put it through their gag cartoon processor without so much as bothering to add any commentary to the issue. Like Pavlov's Dogs, the media rings a bell and cartoonists mindlessly salivate.
Even the innocuous gag cartoons in the pages of The New Yorker feature comments and observations about life, business, culture and politics. These...they do nothing. What a complete and utter failure of a profession founded on satire.
posted by Matt Bors at
1:44 PM
7 Comments:
Maybe I can start a side gig originating gags for some of these guys. Something like 'draw a parallell between how Phelps gets baked during his offseason and is crucified while Alex Rodriguez admits to steroid use and is lauded for his bravery'. There's something there.
Er, I mean 'parallel'.
That idea is too substantive.
My absolute favorite was the one with cheech & chong, with both labeled "cheech" & "chong."
Okay, how about this:
Obama sticking a syringe labeled 'stimulus' into Uncle Sam's ass as Uncle Sam remarks 'I may regret this in a few years'.
If I could draw, I could be a staff cartoonist!
I really wish Phelps hadn't apologized. He should have been, "Yea, so what?"
We iconify The Beatles, Bob Marley and many other artists that constantly sing about drugs. It wasn't even a performance enhancing drug! If anything, it probably made it harder for him, at least on the lungs.
It'll be legal one day. We just need to beat up some beer/tobacco lobbyists first.
"If I could draw, I could be a staff cartoonist!"
You've discovered the big secret. And that's sad because the actual ideas and jokes should be what makes the cartoons.
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