This Halloween toon dates back to the Bush/Cheney junta. What makes this one work (for me, at least), is the kid on the far right, costumed as the shotgun-carrying Vice President Cheney. If you remember that far back, the Dickish one accidentally shot in an acquaintance in the face with a 28-gauge shotgun while out hunting quail. When 78 year-old Texas attorney Harry Whittington came out of the hospital, he actually made a public apology to Cheney and his family for any distress he might have caused them…by you know, getting in the way of Dick’s ammo.
Every once and while I liked to take a break with something that was just plain silly, like these suggestions for the new, outrageously expensive retractable roof for BC Place in Vancouver. I made reference to the controversial mayor of Port Coquitlam, who refused to retract something nasty that I can no longer recall.
While in power, the B.C. Liberals set the province on a very expensive and very stupid petrochemical path involving LNG expansion and the related construction of the Site C Dam on the Peace River. Here I portrayed some guy representing BC giddily running into a trap. I liked how I did the hydrocarbon molecules on the tatted-up temptress’s nylons, if I do say so myself.
I guess you could say the BC Liberals kinda hurt their own brand. Not sure how obvious the wording is in the fourth image.
Everyone loves a nice Star Wars reference. This is from 2013, with another four years left for the BC Libs to raid the public purse, trash the province, and encase Hans Solo in carbonite.
From 2012. The RCMP was reportedly doing the same thing with problematic force members that the Catholic church was doing with problematic priests: shuffle them around to other places.
A comment from 2010 on the decline of literacy. The woman on the left is reading media professor Neil Postman’s seminal 1985 work, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
Self-explanatory. Of course, the war-making Dubya was deserving of much more in the face than a pie. In a fairer world, he would have returned sans noggin from a quail-hunting safari with a bazooka-wielding Cheney.
Also from 2007. When author Kurt Vonnegut popped his clogs, thought it right to honour him with one of his more memorable quotes.
Hey Geoff , these are lovely, each in their own way encapsulation a particular time and place. I like the silly one about BC Stadium, but the Kurt Vonnegut is vintage Olsen...
Brilliant.