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What is this art style and why does it only exist in political cartoons?
I think this is what happens when court sketch artists go home and blow off steam in MS Paint.
It’s a satirical cartoon, which is an art style by itself.
Recognizable facial features are exaggerated for comedy and to highlight the uglyness, yet realistic enough to recognize.
You can tell it’s comedy, because the persons don’t actuallly look like the hyperbolic cartoon character, but it’s still a very personal criticism, because they do have those features, unlike any other person. The name tags in the image are redundant.
It must be getting more difficult to make with modern celebrities, who already look like satirical figures in real life due to botox, spray tan and fake hair etc.
Satirical cartoons are important. Even if the political point is blown out of proportion like the drawing itself, it usually shows some truth or at least something that could be true, and thus basically states the lowest common denominator for understanding the actual politics for the reader to relate to and form their own opinion.
It’s sort of “let’s play with the worst possible interpretation of actual events”.
Regardless of the person actually being a good or bad politician , there will be satirical cartoons made to critizize them from this "low brow* point of view, that they ought to be able to handle or even admit to and laugh along with. So, it gets even more funny if the targeted person reacts negatively towards it.
I think the art style is actually called Caricature. Satirical cartoons often use this art style
Caricature
I heard the young 'uns call it “boomer comic”.
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No… That’s a bit far
But yeah this is boomer style although I love it. Have you ever read groo comics from the golden age? I think there’s an intersection
I like this plan of “Turn Trump and Musk against each other”
Trump should remember how he treated his dad by locking him in a room with a use less telephone.
He did WHAT?
Look it up. His dad developed dementia and trump squirreled him away and set up a fake office so the asshole could control him. He used this setting to get the old man to sign everything over to him. Cutting out the rest of the family.
How cute, americans think that one of those on that picture is steering
It’s not as if Musk didn’t just kill a bill in the US through the power of nothing other than being the President-elect’s actually rich friend.
Wait @Sigfried@sh.itjust.works this wasn’t a right hand drive joke? Ohh
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We sold the steering wheel long ago.
They wouldn’t have to if Musk would just accept LIDAR.
Trump is the world’s richest wage-slave.
Kinda funny to depict Musk as the driver of a car, that he promised would be fully self-driving by now.
At least it’s probably an EV from one of his factories in China because he want to help save the climate…
He needs self-driving cars on Mars?
By now? By like 4 years ago
It might have been a better joke to depict Trump steering the self driving car.
Who’s the guy in the back? He doesn’t have a name tag
i don’t know, but he is orange, we must call him orange instead
The annoying orange
that’s unfair to the orange.
My new favorite is Aotus.
Just a baby in a suit. His name doesn’t matter.
