“She was trying to be controversial for the sake of being controversial,” said [Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists] president Graeme MacKay.*
“She was trying to be controversial for the sake of being controversial,” said [Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists] president Graeme MacKay.*
So cartoons are only for the deep thinkers conference?
And if there’s one thing the news media, and particularly the news opinion industry wants to avoid it’s ‘controversy’. My heavens can you imagine the open democracy breaking out all over the place if more than media elites were allowed to be ‘controversial’. Good grief, next you’ll tell us everybody has a right to an opinion.
re: Blazing’s “… now I see why I can’t think of any “Canadian Editorial Cartoonists” of note.” Terry Mosher of The Gazette used to be pretty ballsy. He still around?
It is only an editorial cartoon if Gable, at the G+M, draws the Conservatives or harper as
1) A demon
2) A Troll
3) Cavemen
4) Fat and with evil eyes
5) Running someone over
6) Have a bludgeoning weapon in their hands
7) As Bullies
If it doesnt include the above it isnt a Gable Globe and Mail cartoon. Gable would never be so brave as this young woman.
she was certainly was Graeme…she certainly was…
Check out Molly’s blog, which is even more colourful than fur’s funny farm.
http://mollynorris.com/
It’s amazing how many formerly edgy and controversial groups have become staid, conformist drones, eager to be “nice” and not ruffle feathers. Sad, because he knows full well there is nothing wrong with controversy for its own sake; it is part of the craft.
This alleged cartoonist is a disgrace to his correspondence art school, even if he did pay the extra ten bucks for a diploma with a gold sticker.
Always like to reprise Gable’s cartoon which perfectly fits all HRC’s and their hangers-on. Too bad there aren’t any T shirts displaying it.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/blogolitics/dept-of-pr-disasters-chrc/article1181312/
And the proper response to MacKaye is “so what?”
How refreshing it would be if editors would just admit that they are cowards and are afraid of backlash from Islamofascists. Don’t give me this sensitivity crap if one is insulting Christ but treads lightly on eggshells so as not offend Muslims/Islam/Mohammad.
acckkk.
The “nobody draw mohammed day” poster that molly put on her website is very sad. It is disturbing that she would back down like that for fear of her own safety.
Hey I’m all for freedom of speech but I mean really! Smuckers!??
Osumashi Kinyobe: how true – they are the same people who watched bullies pick on others on the school field and did nothing.
BTW – I read your post on your website re Michelle Obama – I watched that video where the little girl raises her hand and says, “my mom doesn’t” have papers. Out of the mouths of babes.
Thanks, No-One.
Christians, ect are easy targets. How many will resort to violence if there is some inflammatory image of Jesus circulating about?
As for illegal immigrants, I can point out several LEGAL immigrants who have gone through terrible hardships. Who weeps for them? Why is following the rules so passe?
IMO, the best EDMD cartoon I have seen was the Playboy magazine cover parody. It showed a hot looking women in a blue burka as the cover shot. The magazine was called BurkaBoy – content Articles like: 17 Ways to Please Your 72 Virgins amoung others, and, of course there was the Quiz: How Jihadist Are You?
OT but relevant to the Canadian political scene:
Take a gander at this CBC article.. it’s a shocker because it has the Liberals attacking the NDP for supporting the Gun Registry together with the CPC.
The images of Layton and Mulcair look like Hitler and Marx .. and this is the Liberals slagging their old coalition partners!!! (.. and Stephen just looks sweet!!!)
Liberals are accusing the NDP of being gun-totting criminals backing the use of AK47 assault rifles and 45 S&W personal sidearms in Canada ..!!!
If heads (Donolo, Iggy??) don’t roll over these horrendous Kinsella-style goebbellian attack ads, a coalition will never happen!!!
Shocking:::
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/05/the-liberals-or-rather-the.html
Terry Mosher is always anti-Harper amd pro Obama. Is it ballsy to protray Harper on his knees with his hands tied behind his back as an Afghan detainee? To me it looked like an Islamist wet dream – Harper gets lots of death threats.
As mention previously “Terry Mosher of The Gazette used to be pretty ballsy.” I’ve lived in the US since ’93 so I haven’t seen him for a while. Nicola’s note makes it appear that the great AISLIN is just another lefty hack drone now. Shame.
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Always interesting how fast a liberal (or a Liberal) folds when faced with a real threat. Liberals folding all over the place with this Draw Mohamed thing.
See how fast and how hard Molly Norris is running away from it? She started this with one of those saucy, ironic, ever-so-modern cartoons, tsk-ing at everybody getting their knickers in a twist over South Park. She gets a couple phone calls from irate barbarians, and all the good liberal thoughts and sticking up for human rights and fuzzy animals and everything nice is -out-the-window-. She’s groveling and backpedaling at 100 miles an hour.
Now we’ve got the Canadian MSM retards denouncing -US-, the people sticking up for free speech against fershluginer death threats from barbaric @ssholes in Pakistan, because we’re too “controversial for the sake of being controversial.”
These liberal opponents of ours, they have no guts. One good scare and they fold like origami.
Maybe we should all be LEARNING SOMETHING from this, eh?
You know what else? I’m tired of Canadians being afraid of these two bit jihad hillbillies. I think its about damn time they were afraid of us for a change. Maybe they should start walking on eggshells trying not to offend -us-.
Brian Gable in the Globe and Mail and Andy Donato at the Toronto Sun are excellent cartoonists. Terry Mosher (“Aislin”), on the other hand, is and has always been crap.
Mo
Even though the sheer asininity of it all makes you want to bash your head into a wall, you have to find humor when you can. It is a bit amusing to observe the apoplexy when liberals find themselves painted into a corner by their own PC dogma. This rears its head nowadays mostly in relation to things-Islamic. The iconoclastic bombast they normally congratulate themselves for seems to evaporate if there is any risk that a Muslim or two might be offended. Strident feminism also seems to find itself back in the kitchen, when confronted by rap music with misogynistic themes. They seem to have unwittingly constructed themselves a hierarchy of protected species, though the exact arrangement of that hierarchy depends on the whims of circumstance. Navigating the modern cultural landscape is essentially an elaborate game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with Race, Gender, Religion, Sexuality as the game pieces. The one constant is that heterosexual white males are always at the very bottom.