{"id":27384,"date":"2024-07-13T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27384"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:55:10","slug":"cartoon-the-conservative-guide-to-fighting-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27384","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27385\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor-590x572.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor-590x572.png 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor-300x291.png 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor-768x745.png 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor-940x912.png 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/conservative-guide-fighting-trickle-down-poverty-help-poor.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This is another cartoon <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LiydnmF3CqM\">I made a two-minute timelapse video for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty&quot; timelapse drawing video\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiydnmF3CqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Making these videos is easy and I enjoy showing them to folks, so I&#8217;ll continue doing them now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Two things to watch out for in the timelapse video:<\/p>\n<p>1) The moment I realize I&#8217;ve lost a bunch of lines I drew, and write &#8220;AAARGH&#8221; in big red letters over the cartoon. It goes by in about a split second.<\/p>\n<p>2) Watch when I&#8217;m drawing panel four. You&#8217;ll see that I just can&#8217;t decide what I want there, and it&#8217;s fun (for me at least) to watch the ideas come and go.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing more of this format lately &#8211; a &#8220;talking pundit heads&#8221; cartoon which focuses visually not on the pundits, but on ordinary people in listening (or not listening) to the pundit. It&#8217;s the <em>Doonesbury<\/em>\u00a0influence on my work showing. The punchline of this cartoon also feels very Doonesburyesque to me.<\/p>\n<p>I drew panel two while looking at this photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27386\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery-590x454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery-590x454.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery-940x724.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/reference-pic-of-delivery.jpg 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a>I didn&#8217;t trace &#8211; not that I&#8217;m against tracing in some circumstances, but in this case it wasn&#8217;t necessary. But obviously I found a lot of details in this photo that I used in my drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, by the way, is by Amsterdam photographer Wynand van Poortvliet. There&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@wwwynand\">\u00a0a gallery of his photos here<\/a>, and some of them are really cool.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows a different character and a different scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PANEL ONE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman holds up her phone and is tapping on it with an intense expression. She&#8217;s sitting in a kitchen; an open laptop on the table shows two men talking to each other, a tie-wearing TV host type and his guess, who is wearing a style I think of as &#8220;expensive sloppy,&#8221; with a cream colored suit jacket over an open collar shirt with no tie. The woman doesn&#8217;t seem to be paying attention to the discussion coming from the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>TV HOST: Our guest today is Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Rick Datface, discussing his new book &#8220;The Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty.&#8221; So is your book about improving safety nets? Raising the minimum wage?<\/p>\n<p>DATFACE (from laptop): Heck no!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PANEL TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An man wearing a bright orange safety vest over a striped shirt is pushing a hand trolly down a city sidewalk. The trolly is piled with cardboard boxes of various shapes and sizes. He&#8217;s also wearing headphones over a knit hat, listening to the same program we saw in panel one.<\/p>\n<p>DATFACE (from headphones): The minimum wage hurts poor people by killing jobs! Even if economists say there&#8217;s overwhelming proof it doesn&#8217;t! Every policy to help the poor hurts them, and if we care we should stop helping!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PANEL THREE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A close-up on a hand holding a smartphone; on the smartphone screen, Datface continues speaking. He&#8217;s holding up a finger in a &#8220;I&#8217;m making a point here!&#8221; gesture, and his expression is passionate. The video channel appears to be called &#8220;FUX.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DATFACE (from smartphone): Even the so-called &#8220;incredibly effective&#8221; anti-child-poverty measures that weren&#8217;t renewed (thank god) definitely harmed poor kids in an unidentified way! Only trickle down works!<\/p>\n<p><strong>PANEL FOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman sits at a table, looking dejectedly at bills spread on the table in front of her. Behind her, there&#8217;s a dresser with a TV on top of it, and we can see Datface on it, holding his hands together in front of his chin and trying to look very innocent and wide-eyed.<\/p>\n<p>TV HOST (from TV): So the only way to fight poverty is&#8230; Tax giveaways for billionaires?<\/p>\n<p>DATFACE: And we hate taking the money! But we&#8217;ll make the sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHICKEN FAT WATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicken fat is a venerable (fancy word for old) cartoonist&#8217;s expression for meaningless but maybe amusing details in a comic strip.<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 1: There&#8217;s a piece of paper held to the fridge door by a magnet. It says: &#8220;Shopping. 1. Food. 2. Water. 3. Oxygen. 4. Repeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 2: There&#8217;s a walk\/don&#8217;t walk in the background. The &#8220;don&#8217;t walk&#8221; side is a figure looking at its wristwatch, while the &#8220;walk&#8221; side shows the figure disco dancing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the street sign says we&#8217;re on &#8220;Unread Ave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And a piece of paper littering the sidewalk says &#8220;LOST my drive. If found&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 3: The Chiron at the bottom of the image on the smartphone says &#8220;Shock: Cher Leads Invading Force From Mars.&#8221; And a second line says &#8220;Superstar says hostile invasion won&#8217;t affect tour schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The name of the video channel is &#8220;Fux,&#8221; which sounds a little like &#8220;Fox&#8221; and also a little like a dirty word! Wow, I just do the MOST sophisticated humor, don&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>PANEL 4: There are three bills on the table. They say &#8220;Overdue. Shame!,&#8221; &#8220;Past due you scum,&#8221; and &#8220;Pay up you dufus we&#8217;re not afraid to break some limbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chiron text on the TV in the background is so tiny that I doubt anyone will be able to make it out unless they&#8217;re reading this cartoon in the books (because paper is higher res). But for the record, the top line says &#8220;Study: Background Gag Too Small To Be Read.&#8221; And the second line says, &#8220;&#8221;No comment,&#8221; says incompetent cartoonist.&#8221; (Ironically, when I first posted this cartoon I misspelled &#8220;incompetent.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Also, the woman has a tattoo of Groucho Marx on her arm.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/107145947\">The Conservative Guide To Fighting Poverty | Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another cartoon I made a two-minute timelapse video for. Making these videos is easy and I enjoy showing them to folks, so I&#8217;ll continue doing them now and then. Two things to watch out for in the timelapse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,102,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-economics-and-the-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27387,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27384\/revisions\/27387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}