{"id":24104,"date":"2018-07-05T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24104"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:46:26","slug":"cartoon-democrats-react-to-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24104","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Democrats React To A Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Justice Kennedy announced his retirement – within an hour – my twitter feed spat forth, again and again, Bernie fans blaming the loss of the Supreme Court on Hillary supporters (for not voting for Bernie to win the primary), and Hillary supporters blaming Bernie supporters (those who hadn’t voted for Hillary in the general). The tone, on both sides often skewed heavily towards “bitter.”<\/p>\n

We are a month shy of two years since Bernie conceded the primary. And we lack a time machine, and cannot know what would have been different if Bernie somehow won the primary. It is time to move forward, and it is infinitely frustrating to me that, even in the face of utter Supreme Court disaster, so much of the base seems unable to. I don’t know the right way forward, but I’m positive that keeping our hands about each other throats’ isn’t it.<\/p>\n

Saying this is not saying that neither side has a point. Hillary supporters are right to say that much of the treatment of Clinton stinks of misogyny. And Bernie supporters are right that having the primary election seemingly wrapped up by a powerful party figure long before voting has begun is not healthy for the party. These are ongoing problems that need to be addressed going forward; but whatever forward progress can be made by re-litigating the 2016 primary, has already been made. There’s no more fruit in that tree.<\/p>\n

Artwise, I’m very pleased with how this cartoon looks. I think the color and design works well. (Although I might come to hate the art given some time.) A one-panel cartoon can have a more unified design than a multi-panel cartoon can, and it’s fun to be able to play with that.<\/p>\n

It was also fun to do “the executioner,” another classic gag-cartoon trope. I don’t know if any executioners ever actually went shirtless, but a lot of cartoonists have drawn them that way over the decades, and I’m happy to feel a part of that tradition.<\/p>\n

It’s funny how different gag cartooning is from adventure comics. My first instinct was to put the executioner in the foreground, mostly in silhouette, looming over the main figures on the block. It would have been much more dramatic, and completely wrong for a gag cartoon.<\/p>\n

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This is a one-panel cartoon. Two people in modern clothes are on a platform, kneeling across an executioner’s block, their hands tied behind their backs. They are arguing. Nearby, a huge man with a black hood covering his face, and a huge axe, stands at the ready. In front of the platform, a crowd cheers.<\/p>\n

MAN: If you Hillarybots had supported Bernie, we wouldn’t be in this situation!
\nWOMAN: Ha! If you Bernie Bros had supported Hillary, we wouldn’t be in this situation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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