Did the WTC towers HAVE to be labelled "9/11", though? Shouldn't the fact that they're the WTC towers have given away the symbolism clearly enough for anyone literate enough to pick up a newspaper?
I'd've made the same comment about the W on the chimp's arse, and then I considered the phrase, lowest common denominator. Why yes, I am an over-educated elitist, why do you ask?
The "W" is warranted, though, as the monkey could not possibly be properly interpreted if it wasn't labelled. I am not even sure I'd be able to recognize it having a face at all. There's just some sort of abstract Rorschach ink blot where the face is supposed to be.
The rules of political-cartoon iconography is that you can't have too many explicit labels. Herblock was particularly fond of them; I remember drawing a parody of Herblock many years ago, an overly complex scene in which absolutely every object had some label of its allegorical referent written on it. I don't think anyone got it.
Also, Kong's leg is off the south tower of the World Trade Center to indicate that he has just jumped from one to another. (http://www.fullyarticulated.com/KongPosters.html)
...but I guess a stain of monkeyshit down the side of the building and W flinging feces with his free paw was probably not going to pass editorial approval.
Yeah. Cuz he'd use both paws, and the ensuing flipping over and hurting his widdle head, followed by the crash to the ground... well that's not a one panel cartoon.
And it would raise some questions about symbolism. What is the poo? Do the people crushed under his falling mass symbolise the oppressed masses, or just onlookers rubbernecking?
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Date: 2005-07-02 12:03 am (UTC)Completely. Stunned.
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Date: 2005-07-02 01:15 am (UTC)He's not climbing the WTC towers every time he's threatened.
He's climbing the 9/11 disaster every time he's threatened.
See.
I mean, I know you get it, cuz you're asking, but it's not the WTC he's climbing that makes the point. It's 9/11. See?
they really could be ANY towers. Sears tower. Washington Monument. Big tree in zoo. It's the 9/11 thing he climbs up when he gets threatened.
Really it's that simple (: Which is the brilliance of it (:
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Date: 2005-07-02 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-02 02:24 pm (UTC)But I guess you caught that from the entry (:
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Date: 2005-07-02 05:13 am (UTC)That's a hard job to live up to, but his replacement at the Post has done a stellar job so far.
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Date: 2005-07-02 02:26 pm (UTC)I wish I had my Herblock book. Since I have moved twice in the past 3 months and gone through everything I own, I know I do not have it.
I will need to find said book somewhere and get here.
(Here being harder than 'the states' unfortunately.)
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Date: 2005-07-02 12:32 am (UTC)Re: nearly perfect...
Date: 2005-07-02 01:09 am (UTC)And it would raise some questions about symbolism. What is the poo? Do the people crushed under his falling mass symbolise the oppressed masses, or just onlookers rubbernecking?
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