I am not an economist in any way, but the stuff I’m reading in the paper just doesn’t make any sense. Many of the editorial cartoons in the Trib (yes, much of my opinion’s based on political cartoons — when I stationed in South Korea in ’88, I had to rely on the comics, particularly Bloom County and Doonsbury, for election information (I laughed, but never agreed, but they weren’t censored like the Korean Papers and Stars & Stripes)) are just wrong. Now, I can write a long essay or argue in the online forums with the best, but how does one draw it?
This is where my favorite political cartoonists kill me (even if they’re dead wrong–my strip sucked because it was heavy handed and didactic).
Bagley’s 06/27/2010 entry, on this subject, is the best (still wrong). The trick is to do what he does then, right? Harder than you think. I took two days thinking about how I would do this while looking at other cartoonists and how they handled it. None of them did a narrative or were very attached to verbiage. Bagley was long in fact. This is hard for me, because I write plot-first. I also do not think republicans or democrats are villains, idiots are (again different). So, I struggle. I have a second version of this I’m doing next week. It is focused on the characters, narrative, and plot. I think the difference for now will have to be: I do strips, they do gag-boxes.
Aaron the Ogre