The visual, influenced by Bloom County artistic style, though not any particular cartoon, featuring:
- manned machine gun nests on short poles, or stylos for the Greek-speakers among my readership, probably in the background;
- TSA (Transportation Security Agency, for those just awakening from that forty year coma) style X-ray machines, queueing spaces, and personnel, who are at rest, smoking cigarettes and checking their pistols;
- A pile of school backpacks in a corner, with books and guns spilling out;
- Obtrusive sign that says Greg “More Guns! More Taxes!” Abbott High School.
Caption: one of the TSA agents speaking to another, “Oh yeah? You should see the private schools. An entire Army tank battalion out front!”
No, I haven’t seen anything like this, but I also don’t see editorial cartoons. It just doesn’t happen, but I do like them when I see them, so I honestly hope someone beat me to the punch.
“Greg Abbott” is a reference to Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX), who revels in signing absurd anti-gun control bills.
My favorite cartoon strips in late teens through, maybe, my early thirties were Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side, and Bloom County. I developed a taste for snarky surreality, obviously. No doubt SF writer Roger Zelazny contributed to it as well.
Inspired by this Daily Kos diary.
Feel free to use this idea!
