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Title: Professional opinion.
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on September 04, 2013, 08:05:38 PM
At a course today, this cartoon (Mike Adams-www.NaturalNews.com) was used as an example by an English Literature Tutor, to get an opinion on various things including:

Purpose of the cartoon?
Message of the cartoon?
Is it an effective method of delivering the message?
What is the cartoonists attitude towards what the humans are doing to the planet?
Did the cartoonist achieve his purpose?

Feel free to comment, or not as the case may be, on any of the above.

My difference of opinion came with the communal "How?" speech bubble. I felt it showed the excited anticipation of the world (symbolised by the happy faced crowd speaking in unison) at a possible solution to the problem, which then got turned to dismay at the realisation of how it would be achieved (symbolised by the crowds sad faces and the smug grins of the aliens). Others disagreed.

The aliens I took to be the representation of an unattainable "cure", ready to be eagerly grasped, others saw them as the cartoonist's viewpoint.

I felt quite smart today.   ;)
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Roger Kettle on September 04, 2013, 09:38:41 PM
It's probably just me, but I'm always concerned by the lack of alien genitalia in these depictions.
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Malc on September 05, 2013, 01:07:02 PM
Quite a few of my cartoons are bought by academic establishments (that's what it looks like on the invoice) so they're obviously handy teaching aids. Even more are ripped off the internet without so much as a by-your-leave, still with the agents watermark across the image.


Sorry, what was the question again?
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on September 05, 2013, 07:19:45 PM
Quite a few of my cartoons are bought by academic establishments (that's what it looks like on the invoice) so they're obviously handy teaching aids. Even more are ripped off the internet without so much as a by-your-leave, still with the agents watermark across the image.


Sorry, what was the question again?

How big should alien genitalia be to stop causing unnecessary concern? 
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Malc on September 11, 2013, 01:47:39 AM
I think you'll find that aliens are completely unconcerned about the size of their genitalia, the little scamps. 'specially when they're in the showers. Oh, when I was coaching the Alien U14s that year, what a time we had. They were using their genitalia to whip each other, and they left a nasty ring round the basin.
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on September 11, 2013, 11:33:26 PM
Under 14s...genitalia misuse...nasty rings?

Those aliens were really public schoolboys, weren't they?   :o
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on September 12, 2013, 07:50:14 AM
Other way around, Sandy.

And they run this country...
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Malc on September 12, 2013, 12:52:40 PM
Tarks, you misspelled "ruin".
Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on September 12, 2013, 03:18:15 PM
Other way around, Sandy.


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Title: Re: Professional opinion.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on September 12, 2013, 08:21:44 PM
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