{"id":36076,"date":"2022-05-29T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36076"},"modified":"2022-05-29T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T19:44:58","slug":"i-wish-i-were-a-cartoonist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/29\/i-wish-i-were-a-cartoonist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Were A Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visual, influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top?q=berkeley%20breathed%27s%20bloom%20county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Bloom County<\/em><\/strong><\/a> artistic style, though not any particular cartoon, featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>manned machine gun nests on short poles, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevintagenews.com\/2018\/10\/22\/pole-sitters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>stylos<\/em><\/a> for the Greek-speakers among my readership, probably in the background;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>TSA<\/strong><\/em> (<em><strong>Transportation Security Agency<\/strong><\/em>, 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;<\/li>\n<li>A pile of school backpacks in a corner, with books and guns spilling out;<\/li>\n<li>Obtrusive sign that says <em>Greg &#8220;More Guns! More Taxes!&#8221; Abbott High School<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caption: one of the <em><strong>TSA<\/strong><\/em> agents speaking to another, &#8220;Oh yeah? You should see the private schools. An entire Army tank battalion out front!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>No, I haven&#8217;t seen anything like this, but I also don&#8217;t see editorial cartoons. It just doesn&#8217;t happen, but I do like them when I see them, so I honestly hope someone beat me to the punch.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;Greg Abbott&#8221; is a reference to Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Abbott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Abbott<\/a> (R-TX), who revels in signing absurd anti-gun control bills.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My favorite cartoon strips in late teens through, maybe, my early thirties were <em><strong>Calvin &amp; Hobbes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1745254632988727\/?notif_id=1615771570281508&amp;notif_t=group_recommendation&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Far Side<\/a>, <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong> Bloom County<\/strong><\/em>. I developed a taste for snarky surreality, obviously. No doubt SF writer Roger Zelazny contributed to it as well.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2022\/5\/26\/2100500\/-Fox-News-offers-up-49-of-the-most-pathetic-solutions-to-gun-violence-after-Texas-massacre?detail=emaildkre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inspired<\/a> by this <em><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> diary.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Feel free to use this idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/29\/i-wish-i-were-a-cartoonist-2\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36079,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076\/revisions\/36079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}