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Isn't that comic heavily influenced by Kelly comics?
Could be, I just see Kelly and Yoloswag in passing, not huge into political cartoons anymore. I always thought they were riffing on Garrison, but this feels like Garrison anyways
They're both riffing in Garrison for sure, but Kelly comics satirizing conservative political cartoons actually predates Ben Garrison. Seems the Onion has been publishing them since 2006
Kelly's shtick is a satire of political cartoonists in general, who as a group lean right. I'd say Garrison's idiosyncrasies don't have all that much influence. Even the excessive labelling is just a genre trope.
naw they’re riffing on garrison. all Kelly comics are exaggerated conservative takes for satire
e: atp not much exaggeration is needed, so it sometimes comes off as genuine
Ok so this is a bit that makes sense lol, this comic was so fucking funny I had a hard time believing it was genuine.
They're riffing on that political comic in the Watchmen, in the New Frontiersman newspaper. CWing for fash shit.
Considering Alan Moore's politics that also has to be riffing on something.
I've always liked this particular cartoon because it shows how detached from reality the fascists in Watchmen are. It's criticizing the Keene act, which criminalized superheroes and Doug Roth, who is a journalist critical of superheroes who spent his life unmasking them. It's valorizing superheroes in a completely fabricated context, even for the storyline.
The stereotypical superhero portrayed is this blonde white guy with a typical conservative idea of a family, a wife and two kids. That's not true of any of the superheroes portrayed in Watchmen. Most of them are some level of deranged, especially Rorschach. The only two blonde Aryan superheroes were Ozymandias and Captain Metropolis, who were both gay. Not only that, but the comic is antisemitic, despite both Nite Owl II and Doctor Manhattan being Jewish.
Also I'm pretty sure the crying statue of liberty is supposed to be visually similar to the angel statue at the Comedian's funeral.
Alan Moore is a genius.