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Why are all political cartoons so damn ugly? Is it a competition between the cartoonists to draw worse and worse?
It's intentional. Most political cartoons exaggerate the people they are portraying.
Caricature is one thing, this is somethign else!
No it's not, these are caricatures the same as ever.
Well yes, but they're really fuck ugly awful caricatures
It's kind of the tradition. Look back forever and most are like this.
I once went to an exhibition of Hogarth's satirical cartoons, I feel like the modern ones have managed to miss anyuthing about the style that made them good
One thing I've been noticing is that lately they been getting dumber.
For example this one doesn't need any of the "dialogs" nor Elon's name tag to convey the message
I feel like this would be a fantastic fun niche deep dive. I wish cracked.com was still what it was, perfect for them. Or maybe as a video essay on some video platform for content creators.