This is first of a few drawings I made that try to evoke the obvious early political cartoons of the Thomas Nast era in which everything is labeled and people often wear banners and sashes the simply state what they are supposed to represent. I thought it was sort of amusing to make such a pointless drawing as this one.
This made me laff.
ReplyDeleteNice Hatchin'. You should post them all
ReplyDeleteI will, but I'm stretching it out once a week style. Tom and I just vowed to return to every Sunday postings. Get on board!
ReplyDeletewoah! every sunday post vow! I shalt try.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the significance of this political cartoon, donko. It is brought out by the strange quietness of the drawing, like the guys are posing as wrestlers rather than actually wrestling, and they are doing it just to aid the production of the political cartoon, in order to communicate the content.
Conor,
ReplyDeleteI was listening to a Noam Chomsky lecture and what you said was a lot like what he was saying about the political system; The parties fight for show but their interests are more or less aligned. Its funny, I made these dumb comic for the purpose of having no meaning, and I've found myself kind of reading into them a bit, which is defeating the whole exercise.
This is a really great work. Both in terms of meaning and in the lovely drawing, which brings Thomas Nast to mind. It makes me wish you had time to take a life drawing class. When you're drawing this well on your own, you can really take a leap in a life drawing class. But this is terrific and the shoes on the standing figure are particularly nice.
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