March 4th, 2012 at 4:00 pm by David Farrar
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March 4th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
So that’s what toad looks like
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Maybe he shouldn’t take it for a swim. I kinda like Toadie in a funny sort of way!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
The caption forgot to include Luddites and (il)liberals with a profound guilt complex.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Nailed it!
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Nice pic of “Tangata Tiriti”. Fish-hook for all of the taxpayer money that they can grab.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Maybe one day Blunt will draw a funny cartoon…
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
I like to feel that I had a small part to play in such a realistic cartoon Milky.
Shame on you for trying to belittle the artists obvious talent.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Shame on Blunt for masquerading as a humourist.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:37 pm
I wonder if Blunt intended the inference of superiority and smugness that the Tangata Tiriti is showing by nonchalantly, yet dominantly, leaning an arm over a symbol of indigenous New Zealand – of Maori?
Do you think, perhaps, Blunt is suggesting that Tangata Tiriti’s empathy for Maori is more about an interest in the presentation of their own image to others, in salving their own conscious, than it is about a genuine understanding and oneness with Maori?
If so, Mikey is correct – not funny at all… But very thought provoking…
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
That would be a good point to make a cartoon about, but you would need more talent than Blunt has shown to make it funny.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
I think the artist has exhibited wonderful satire Milky with his subtle juxtaposition of the hippy like fellow wearing his HUGE bone and his dirty dog shades while leaning on a tree that exemplifies the use of Gaias resources to produce the very objects that the hippy like fellow is using.
You probably never even noticed the bulge of the cellphone in his back pocket!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
I think a cartoon of Lucy Lawless arriving for an anti-oil protest in a chaffeured limo would have been funnier, but I can’t draw. Cartoons have to be funny. I Can’t see Blunt putting Tom Scott out of a job any time soon.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
I think a cartoon of Loopy Lucy getting turned back at at LAX due to her burglary conviction would really be funny.
Tom is starting to show his age with his lack of original thought and his propensity to revert to his left wing roots. However I agree he is probably the best cartoonist we have at the moment.
Don’t like that dreadful, untalented fellow who always draws JK with a huge nose.
Joris should look into that!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
We obviously have one commentator who doesn’t appreciate Blunt’s style. True, cartoons can have us in stitches but this is usually the field of say Garfield or Donald Duck.
A political cartoonist uses the medium to convey a message & humour may or not be involved. Politicians are caricatured mercilessly but it goes with the territory & more than a few would be concerned if they weren’t featured. IMHO opinion Emerson & Tom Scott are the best currently on offer.
Blunt in this instance puts the knife into lefty liberal apologists for Pakeha & then gives it a good twist. These wretched poseurs shuffle & waffle through their days crying into their Chardonnay about the supposed misdeeds of people who have been worm fodder for a century & a half.
No wonder we have so many Maori living in Australia. Faced with some blonde pakeha idiot fumbling Te Reo while wearing half a beef carcase round their neck any Maori with self respect would have to move or murder the condescending arsehole for debasing their culture.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
I’m quite prepared to enjoy a cartoon poking fun at whatever attitude. There is certainly potential in the choice of subject matter. Unfortunately, not one of Blunt’s efforts that I’ve seen have made the grade.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
So you weren’t impressed with Toadies bleat the other night then nasska?
Jeeze some of you fellows are really harsh on alternative thinking!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Hell Milky. I was only joking when I called you Toadies toadie.
I’m beginning to suspect you are Jekyll and Hyde.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Johnboy
Like you I suspect that Toad might not be a bad sort of coot. However, I find his political opinions incredibly easy to forget.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
You don’t think that Toadie and Milky may be one and the same do you nasska or am I just being paranoid?
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Sort of Doctor Evil and Mini Me like!
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Johnboy
That’s a tough one. On balance although, with the different styles of their offerings, I don’t think that a split personality would stretch quite that far.
More likely they are brother, cousins or perhaps, partners.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Ah perhaps unwed but hoping too soon once we get the law changed partners nasska.
What a wise chap you are.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
mis-filed under “humour”. Long past time for “blunt” or “knutz” or whoever the hell he is to throw in the towel.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
mikenmild
How many ways do you know how to say you do not like it ?
Vote:We all find it funnier the more you hate it
March 4th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
and thats the point eh ..as long as somebody hates something.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
nasska said:
True, cartoons can have us in stitches but this is usually the field of say Garfield or Donald Duck
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I challenge you to produce a genuinely funny Garfield cartoon.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
After five posts that he disliked the cartoonist work It was getting a little harsh on someones creative endevour .
Vote:Milky mike is usually quiet mild
Still whotever.
March 4th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
gump
I’ll say pass, as humour is too subjective to quantify. I could have picked a better example than ‘Garfield’ as it represents dumbed down American custard pie humour. It sufficed ,however, to demonstrate the difference between a cartoon drawn to entertain & one that is intended to provoke political debate.
My first choice in the Dom Post is ‘Alex’ on the odd times they deign to publish it.
Vote:March 4th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
With the hippie poncho and the Lennon glasses
Vote:slightly feminine posture hips akimbo
Androgynous age hippie on the hunt to a herbal tea
Big bone weeelll its a bit like a big car init.
super normal display artifact for a gween rutting ritual.
Well done I thought
March 4th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Don’t get it must be another thick Hori, is it about Maori wanting more money?
Can someone enlighten me I will read back through the blog and try and pick up the drift.
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 1:03 am
Well done, Knutz.
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Here’s an early self-portrait by “Knutz”, this explains everything:
http://catmacros.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/i_hate_everything_cat.jpg
Vote:March 5th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
@rakuraku
Vote:I don’t get it either, it’s the sort of cartoon that appeals to a minority, usualyy those of a sociopathic bent.
March 6th, 2012 at 2:13 am
“I don’t get it either, it’s the sort of cartoon that appeals to a minority, usualyy those of a sociopathic bent.”
Or maybe you need a sense of humour in the first place?
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