Is it just me getting unreasonably irritated when the artist captions the things they’re depicting, as if we’re either too dumb to understand or they suck at making subtle references?
It’s a political comics thing that has its roots in England around 250 300 years ago. The comic is meant simultaneously to be funny (and therefore disarming) and legitimate political propaganda. To ensure that the political propaganda message is not lost on the masses they label everything to make sure their message most clearly gets across.
Is it just me getting unreasonably irritated when the artist captions the things they’re depicting, as if we’re either too dumb to understand or they suck at making subtle references?
It’s a political comics thing that has its roots in England around
250300 years ago. The comic is meant simultaneously to be funny (and therefore disarming) and legitimate political propaganda. To ensure that the political propaganda message is not lost on the masses they label everything to make sure their message most clearly gets across.For example, see this political cartoon from 1903. Panama_canal_cartoon_1903.jpg
That’s actually cool to know, though I dislike the practice, they kinda look like previous century memes lol
That was lost on me either way, but I guess it’s just my lack of knowledge on US’s history 👀
The cartoon shows the US aligning with Panama separatist factions to break from Colombia so that they can permit the construction of the channel.
Panama was a separate colony from Colombia, but they joined when becoming independent.
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I’m guessing you just don’t know History very well, i didn’t need any sort of explanation to understand the comic.
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Thanks for the explanation!
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I don’t necessary know about the intelligence part, I’ve seen plenty of braindead political cartoons
I’ll have you know I put a lot of effort into my own memes
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These sorts of comics have been captioned like this for decades. I’m not sure if they were ever not captioned.
If anything I think they were even more obvious back then… The Troll would have had “Troll” written on their laptop and so on…
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Definitely just a cute little goblin hanging out in the toilet, annoyed that all these chumps have rocked up and interrupted his computer time
I’ve seen some done in the 1800s. Captioned.
At this point it’s a staple of the genre.
That’s just the way political comics goes. It’s expected and common. It’s not a web comic, bruh; there’s a tradition to maintain.
Not all political comics are like that though, the best ones don’t need the labelling.
Well, I guess so, wasn’t expeting a whole culture around these
This reminds me of a Ben Garrison cartoon. Way too heavy handed.
It’s just you
Ben Garrison does the same thing. It’s pretty common
Damn, now that’s one that goes overboard!
At least when Garrison does it it’s so over the top it’s farcical and ridiculous which makes it funny unlike this comic
Well, his audience seems to pretty obviously need things spelled out for them. In very, very short words.