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December 11, 2006
Hi, We're the Replacements
In case you've forgotten or didn't know to begin with, today begins a two-week stint in which Stantis (two weeks ago) took some time off to recover from rotator cuff surgery, AKA Post Election Stress Syndrome.
Replacing him this week is "liberal editorial cartoonist" Matt Davies. If you're curious about Davies's work, here are some recent political cartoons. Also, here is a blog he maintains about his cartoons. I hope Davies will be able to overcome one of Stantis's main shortcomings (besides his clumsy evocation of his crackpot politics, of course): his inability to 'write' a 'gag' for a week-long series. As a political cartoonist, Stantis has conquered the one-panel idea. But he struggles writing 3-4 daily panels on the same topic for five days in a row. Every day he feels the need to re-introduce the main theme. For example, who can forget the great 'Macho is in' series from July of this year:
Scott made sure you wouldn't forget. And he didn't bother moving the storyline beyond that.
Today, Davies introduces the week's main theme: Democrats have 'wrested control' of Prickly City. Will he develop the theme into an interesting melody? Or will he just play the same note over and over as homage to the recovering Stantis?
Comments
I got tomorrow's newspaper, where Carmen and Winslow broke the forth wall and mentioned that "a liberal cartoonist took over the strip." I will say for one thing, the art style is pretty similar.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at December 11, 2006 09:55 AM
What's the deal with the first panel - is it "sometime" or "late in 2006"? It takes me completely out of the story. Horrible.
Posted by: Sacki at December 11, 2006 10:42 AM
Democrats took over Prickly City? Let me guess: mandatory thong underwear, all commerce conducted via gadgets, Paris Hilton as mayor, and lots of fat people getting no exercise, right? Because aren't those the evils that liberals have unleashed on the world?
Posted by: Annie at December 11, 2006 11:31 AM
I can't wait - this means a few weeks of Carmen coming out as a lesbian, getting pregnant by invitro-fertilization, then getting an abortion on demand but staying on the welfare.
Posted by: The Furnace at December 11, 2006 01:16 PM
This is OT, but I thought I mention that a conservative cartoonist was recently arrested for DUI
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061211/LOCAL/61211035/-1/topstoriesrecache
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at December 12, 2006 03:37 AM
