Bill Day adds to the pile of Okay L.A. related word play with this lazily photoshopped together silhouette. Also…Gradients.
Glad to see that indiegogo money helped Bill step up his game.
Seriously, if you cannot communicate something other than “A bad thing happened and america is sad” DO NOT do a cartoon about it.
How about: If you can’t communicate something other than “Something happened” DO NOT do a cartoon about it.
Like Bors and McFadden, I knew immediately that the passing of Roger Ebert would bring a slew of lame cartoons. He was famous enough, had a recognizable catchphrase/symbol, and above all was more or less popular, so showing him getting into heaven was an easy choice.
Most of the cartoons were trite and lazy, almost all revolving around a thumbs up and a couple showing Siskel and Ebert reunited. Nothing I wasn’t expecting, nothing that bothered me too bad. True, none of them indicated the cartoonist actually cared about Ebert’s legacy or his impact on film criticism, but when the average obit cartoon simply acknowledges the person is dead, what can you expect?
But now Margaret Thatcher has died, and like Reagan we can expect a handful of cartoons that don’t just mark her passing, but elevate her and her legacy, turning her into some great lion of… I don’t know, freedom and liberty and other vacuous pleasantries.
Gorrell seemed more interested in just being first, rather than being the most laudatory, and the result is this.
Get it? It’s the chemical symbol for Iron and the universal symbol of Woman. Because she was called the Iron Lady, and that was the name of the movie about her a couple years ago.
What is her legacy? What were her accomplishments? How will history judge her? Who gives a fuck, Gorrell answers, I’ve had this idea in mind for years and I finally get to use it.
I honestly don’t know which is worse: Gorrell’s laziness or the hagiographies I’m expecting from Ramirez, Asay, et al.
This one looks like a Bob Gorrell cartoon. So I went an checked on Gorrell’s latest cartoon to see if maybe he’d done this ‘joke’ too, as he’s done it twice before but no (not yet at least.)
No Bob Gorrell decided to do another *this isn’t plagiarism because I attribute it* cartoon… Copying and pasting a shitty pixilated version of someone else’s artwork.
Came home to find someone had tweeted me a link to Gorrell’s latest (the French Obama one).
I could have sworn I’ve talked about executive orders and the “No president before Obama has issued executive orders” bullshit meme among conservatives before, but Tumblr’s search function leaves much to be desired and Google was no help.
As it is, the conservative “No president before Obama has issued executive orders” meme is absolute bullshit.
And yes, Gorrell continues to get lazier and lazier. At least Ramirez et al draw their own version of famous pictures. Gorrell can’t even do that.
Just in case you thought it wasn’t possible for Bob Gorrell to turn in something lazier than this cartoon, here he does ON THE SAME DAY!
![iandsharman:
secotm:
The one that is designed to allow a person to kill multiple people in a very short period of time. It has no place in civilian society. The hammer is only a lethal weapon when it is used contrary to its intended purpose, and we don’t hear about mass skull-beatings every few weeks, do we?
And OF COURSE Gorrell was too damn lazy to draw anything here. He was too lazy to form a cogent argument, why would he suddenly care enough to draw something himself?
Hand guns: Used in 6,220 murders during 2011. [source]
Which one should be banned?
Also, the statistic that Gorrell uses for hammers is actually listed as “Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.)” which slightly undermines the point he’s trying to make here, as it would suggest that actual murders specifically involving hammers were fewer than 496.
It should also be pointed out that according to Gorrell’s source (the FBI annual crime statistics), rifles were used in 323 murders in the USA during 2011, not “fewer than 323 murders”…the addition of the words “fewer than” is completely unjustified. Not only that, but the statistics include 1.587 murders involving firearms where the type of gun was not recorded, which would suggest that the actual number of murders in which rifles were used is greater than 323 and not fewer than 323 at all.
Also, if we make this just about guns in general, and correct his errors, the cartoon would read:
Guns: Used in 8,583 murders during 2011.
Hammers: Used in fewer than 496 murders during 2011.
Which one should be banned?
I don’t think going into detail about the fallacies of Gorrell’s argument will convince anyone who opposes any kind of gun control, but still, well said.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c6bcb611d93de998ed3f940800a70bc6/tumblr_mgd0trQoNr1r8kiyko1_500.jpg)
The one that is designed to allow a person to kill multiple people in a very short period of time. It has no place in civilian society. The hammer is only a lethal weapon when it is used contrary to its intended purpose, and we don’t hear about mass skull-beatings every few weeks, do we?
And OF COURSE Gorrell was too damn lazy to draw anything here. He was too lazy to form a cogent argument, why would he suddenly care enough to draw something himself?
Hand guns: Used in 6,220 murders during 2011. [source]
Which one should be banned?
Also, the statistic that Gorrell uses for hammers is actually listed as “Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.)” which slightly undermines the point he’s trying to make here, as it would suggest that actual murders specifically involving hammers were fewer than 496.
It should also be pointed out that according to Gorrell’s source (the FBI annual crime statistics), rifles were used in 323 murders in the USA during 2011, not “fewer than 323 murders”…the addition of the words “fewer than” is completely unjustified. Not only that, but the statistics include 1.587 murders involving firearms where the type of gun was not recorded, which would suggest that the actual number of murders in which rifles were used is greater than 323 and not fewer than 323 at all.
Also, if we make this just about guns in general, and correct his errors, the cartoon would read:
Guns: Used in 8,583 murders during 2011.
Hammers: Used in fewer than 496 murders during 2011.
Which one should be banned?
I don’t think going into detail about the fallacies of Gorrell’s argument will convince anyone who opposes any kind of gun control, but still, well said.
The one that is designed to allow a person to kill multiple people in a very short period of time. It has no place in civilian society. The hammer is only a lethal weapon when it is used contrary to its intended purpose, and we don’t hear about mass skull-beatings every few weeks, do we?
And OF COURSE Gorrell was too damn lazy to draw anything here. He was too lazy to form a cogent argument, why would he suddenly care enough to draw something himself?
Wow, that’s lazy. Really. This may very well be the laziest cartoon I’ve seen that manages to rise above the ‘illustrate the news’ baseline for laziness.
Just…
It occurred to me we were around the 1-year anniversary of this Tumblr’s start, so I went looking through my archives to the first post to find the actual date. Unfortunately the set-up I use doesn’t give an exact date for posts, just approximate points (so I know it’s been about a year since I started this, but I don’t know the exact date).
But going to the last page of my archives, I found this
Look familiar? It should, because a few days ago I posted this
I guess this explains the boy’s expression in that latter picture. He’s still pissed off from what Santa said a year ago.
But really, how fucking lazy is Catalino? His artwork and his metaphors are cheap to begin with, but ripping off his own shitty artwork? If he was going to use the same picture twice, couldn’t he put more effort into the art itself?
OK, yesterday I chastised Rose for making a joke a week after the relevant news story (neverminding the “Blame Bush” thing died years ago). Now we get one related to a news story from, wait for it, a month ago.
Rose, you disgust me. I know, I just know you’re one of the people making serious coin on this shit, and you can’t even be bothered to be timely. Fuck you.
Ho Ho’s aren’t even made by Hostess.
Well not now, but they were.
