USA!!! USA!!!
By FITSNEWS || Monte Wolverton is the son of Mad magazine legend Basil Wolverton. Via The Cagle Post , that’s his latest commentary on America’s interminable “War on Terror.” Needless to say, we heart it … especially the memories of Charles Montgomery Burns it conjures up for us.
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“Release the hounds dogs of war.”
“Hamsters of war”?
Eeeeeeeexcellent.
“Chihuahuas of war?” — the Ferguson agitators should be very, very afraid.
Every time I see a pile of skulls, even in a comic, I think about the first scene in Terminator 2 where a terminator foot comes crushing down on a human skull before all hell breaks loose….and then I think about American foreign policy and George Orwell’s boot stamping on a human face all rolled up into one neat, televised package on late night news networks.
Monte Wolverton’s father was indeed a MAD magazine legend, but in fact didn’t do much work on either the original color comic version or the later black and white (now color) magazine. He came to prominence due to winning a contest in Al Capp’s “L’ill Abner” comic strip for the “World’s Ugliest Woman”, “Lena The Hyena.” Lena later appeared in a MAD story and re-surfaced many decades later in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” The elder Wolverton did a couple of wildly bizarre features for MAD after that, but not many. He did most of his work in those years for religious publications, strangely enough, illustrating Bible stories for children in a most idiosyncratic way. That work was much later the inspiration for Robert Crumb to do an amazingly garish and lurid comix version of the entire Bible — word, chapter and verse (with lots of nekkid people doing it, a lot — coz, you know, the Bible talked about that stuff all the time.)
M. Wolverton is a good political cartoonist, with a fairly standard style. His extensive use of cross-hatch appears to be in homage to his famous father. This is one of the best of his cartoons I’ve ever seen, in terms of relevant content. It’s right on the money.
Holy Cow, did you just pop some smart pills or something? I never knew you had that capacity. (no offense)
I’m just a high-functioning idiot savant.
If I drop thousands of toothpicks right here and now can you tell me how many are there in less than a minute?
:)
If you drop them on a cross-hatch of the right size you can use the results to calculate pi. (I think)
Republicans love everything about war, except the bill.