This year's British Political Cartoon Award Winner

[Guest Cerebus]

Ladies and Gentlemen feast your eyes on this brilliant piece of work which, surpriisingly enough, was NOT the Guardian but the Independent.

 

 

For those of you who don't ge tthe rather obscure reference, its actually a parody of this Goya painting:

 

 

Kronos, the guy in the painting, is the big revolutionary of greek mythology, slaying his father and instigating a new rule. To prevent himself from being usurped by his children he tries to break the vicious cycle of "revolution revolting against the previous revolution" by devouring his own children. In analogy, I assume the artist wants to point out that the Likud strong-man policy of enforcing Israeli security destroys the future of Isreal.

 

For mulitple treasons, this cartoon falls flat on its face. One, the vast majority of people won't understand the referance, two the cartoon isn't exactly well drawn, three, whether intenional or not, it brings back references to the old Blood Libels the Jews were, and still are, accused of having (i.e. drinking the blood of non-believers), fourthly when the vast majority of tyour audience doesn't GET thereference you're trying to make they assume somehting else, in this case most assume its Sharon eating an Arab baby, so you're left with a crude cartoon by default. This shouldn't have ever been published let alone get Britain's highest award for Political Carttons. Fantastic "allies" we have don't we?

[BX 0]

You banged that out pretty fast, didn't you?

 

Sure, it's an obscure reference, but that's probably why they chose it. I personally am tired of reading political cartoons that were designed for viewers with third grade comprehension levels.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Yes, I wouldn't say that picture is among the Mona Lisa or the melting clocks when it comes to mainstream knowledge.

 

What the hell?

[Ravenbomb 0]

yeah, what's the deal with the melting clocks?

[Vyce 0]

That cartoon = TEH ANTISEMITIC~!

 

I'm mildly suprised the winning cartoon wasn't one of Bush doing something as similar as Mr. Sharon is here.

[Anorak 0]

Great likeness for Sharon.

[Guest BDC]

Melting clocks is part of a Salvador Dali painting called the Persistence of Memory. Memory gets warped in time, I believe.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Figures this crap would win an award...