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What if the Tea Party took over the comics section?

Teanuts, by Ward Sutton
In a curious but somewhat-amusing turn, The Boston Globe had cartoonist Ward Sutton create a parody of what the comics section might look like if it were taken over by the Tea Party. What he comes up with are strips like B.P. (rather than B.C.), Dennis the IRS Menace, Nancy (Pelosi), Calvinist and Hobbes, and so on — 18 in all.
12 Comments
Jackie Estrada
September 27, 2010 at 9:40 am
A couple of these worked for me, but the rest fell flat. Filtering the Tea Party through a lefty sensibility worked about as well as if a far right-wing cartoonist were to do his/her version of the funny papers as done by “commies.”
Joe H
September 27, 2010 at 11:33 am
Some of them DID look and sound like as if they were real right-wing comics (like the Far Left Side), but most of them just felt like “right-wing comics” as done by someone who’s not right-wing.
Sir Manley Johnson
September 27, 2010 at 11:55 am
Reminds me of MAD magazine in the glory days.
Jackie Estrada
September 27, 2010 at 11:57 am
The cartooning styles are spot-on, though.
TonyJazz
September 27, 2010 at 1:25 pm
At least most of these are funnier than Mallard Fillmore.
The rumors are that the Mallard Fillmore strip is intentionally not funny because the writer is actually a liberal.
I don’t know if that is true, but I do know that he has failed to turn out a strip that is even occassionally funny….
tbob
September 27, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Someone take the sledgehammer away from the guy who wrote those. geez.
scotty
September 27, 2010 at 2:54 pm
As much as the left hates and despises the Tea Party movement now, wait until after Nov. 2. They’re going to be foaming at the mouth or on suicide watch.
bones
September 27, 2010 at 3:02 pm
And by next spring the rest of the country will be doing the same.
nWoJeffDW
September 27, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Clearly done by someone who doesn’t understand the Tea Party. The Left has gotten so pathetic. The hate rhetoric that comes from them is truly sad.
scotty
September 27, 2010 at 3:36 pm
“And by next spring the rest of the country will be doing the same.”
But things were going to be so different under President Lightbringer. What could have possibly gone wrong?!?!
Sean T. Collins
September 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm
The only thing worse than political cartoons are the comment threads they spawn.
Chris Jones
September 27, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Sean, be real, this isn’t NEARLY as bad as it could be. Having a guy who actually has “NWO” in his name is pretty terrible, yes, but even he isn’t nearly as bad as the wingnuts you see commenting on every single Yahoo article.
Seriously, go look up the comment section to literally any Yahoo News article. “Ghastly” is the only word to describe these people.