Strike 3 for China, they're out. First they announced their global economic domination plan (One Belt/One Road), then they threatened business with forfeiture in the trade war they lost anyway, and now they've created an emotional ( => political ) reason for the global masses to distrust them. Pooh Bear's in big trouble and China's desperate. They can't even throw themselves on Trump's mercy because in this case he won't have any. They're looking at a Phase Two Trade Treaty of Versailles imo though their political structure needn't change.
On a side note: A long time ago, I watched a documentary on Netflix about General Tso chicken which explained that it isn't actually Chinese, it's actually something Chinese restaurant owners had to come up with in the United States to appeal to American tastes.
I love this illustration but one of my pet peeves about comics is when they spell things out as if the viewer is too stupid to figure it out. Like cmon the red dragon with the Chinese characters on the tea cup and eating bats is plenty enough for anyone of average intelligence and a basic education to figure out the red dragon represents China. You don't actually have to spell "CHINA" on the dragon's belly. We get it already.
I love Ben Garrison's illustrations but he does this a lot too where he unnecessarily spells things out on his comics and insults the viewers intelligence. Let your illustrations speak for themselves, don't dumb down an otherwise clever work of art.
In 50 or 100 years, after the events of our generation are forgotten, it will still be easy for people to understand the satirical points being made by Garrison’s cartoons because of the labels and obviousness of his visual metaphors. In contrast, subtle cartoons will become impossible to appreciate with the passage of time. Just look at old cartoons from Punch or Illustrated London News and see which cartoons you can understand and which you can’t.
Even today, not everybody in every country will have sufficient knowledge of current events and persons to be able to appreciate the cartoons unless the metaphors are made obvious.
There’s value and merit in both subtle and obvious satire.
The cartoon is incomplete—where are the scorpions? The classic book “Man Eating Bugs” has a whole chapter on Chinese scorpion farms and the specialty soup vendors they supply to.
it's not just that...i read an interesting twatter reply: a lot of the leather manufacturers in n'thern italy sold out to the chinese, who imported 100,000 chinese to work in the factories, etc. care to guess from what region? apparently there's a direct flight out of italy to wuhan now.
Strike 3 for China, they're out. First they announced their global economic domination plan (One Belt/One Road), then they threatened business with forfeiture in the trade war they lost anyway, and now they've created an emotional ( => political ) reason for the global masses to distrust them. Pooh Bear's in big trouble and China's desperate. They can't even throw themselves on Trump's mercy because in this case he won't have any. They're looking at a Phase Two Trade Treaty of Versailles imo though their political structure needn't change.
“Oh no my ox cart! Who could have seen this coming?!” - half the planet
Brutal.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567
Follow up to this story. She sent the freaking Ebola virus to China without proper papers.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/questions-surround-canadian-shipment-of-deadly-viruses-to-china-66254
Wait, why is that dragon about to eat the "angry sun" from Mario 3?
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2016/02/angry_sun_super_mario_maker_course_element-700x394.png
Maybe the dragon is actually Bowser after getting really sick.
NOOOO!!!! NOT FIDO!!!! He was such a good boi!!!!
On a side note: A long time ago, I watched a documentary on Netflix about General Tso chicken which explained that it isn't actually Chinese, it's actually something Chinese restaurant owners had to come up with in the United States to appeal to American tastes.
I love this illustration but one of my pet peeves about comics is when they spell things out as if the viewer is too stupid to figure it out. Like cmon the red dragon with the Chinese characters on the tea cup and eating bats is plenty enough for anyone of average intelligence and a basic education to figure out the red dragon represents China. You don't actually have to spell "CHINA" on the dragon's belly. We get it already.
I love Ben Garrison's illustrations but he does this a lot too where he unnecessarily spells things out on his comics and insults the viewers intelligence. Let your illustrations speak for themselves, don't dumb down an otherwise clever work of art.
/rant over
The average person isn’t a stereotypical hillbilly if that’s what you mean.
Obligatory George Carlin: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
An ill informed complacency fed by a diet of ideological-driven media.
In 50 or 100 years, after the events of our generation are forgotten, it will still be easy for people to understand the satirical points being made by Garrison’s cartoons because of the labels and obviousness of his visual metaphors. In contrast, subtle cartoons will become impossible to appreciate with the passage of time. Just look at old cartoons from Punch or Illustrated London News and see which cartoons you can understand and which you can’t. Even today, not everybody in every country will have sufficient knowledge of current events and persons to be able to appreciate the cartoons unless the metaphors are made obvious. There’s value and merit in both subtle and obvious satire.
GROSS
add to cart.
Poor Fido 😢
China is the source of every major flu pandemic. Fuck Chinese shills.
The cartoon is incomplete—where are the scorpions? The classic book “Man Eating Bugs” has a whole chapter on Chinese scorpion farms and the specialty soup vendors they supply to.
I reckon that you can only murder so many infant girls, and eat so many doggos, before the wrath of God comes down on you.
it's not just that...i read an interesting twatter reply: a lot of the leather manufacturers in n'thern italy sold out to the chinese, who imported 100,000 chinese to work in the factories, etc. care to guess from what region? apparently there's a direct flight out of italy to wuhan now.
Interesting.
Mystery solved.
Huh. I seem to recall the "experts" saying they didn't understand how it came to Italy.
The first positives in Spain were residents or tourists from Italy.
Lots of smokers there too