Stoic.
Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist for Halifax Chronicle-Harald (who still cannot believe he is paid to draw) has created an image that breaks peoples' hearts and not just in Canada either.
I think, everybody thought this same thing. That's why it resonates so profoundly. Bruce drew what we all thought at the moment; now Cpl. Cirillo has become what he guarded. Reading through tweets I see others read this cartoon differently.
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This will really piss off the left.
Let me specify: Kos and his warped followers.
In looking for the cartoon I saw earlier I found others besides.
Gun grabbers never stop.
Never.
You see, they have right on their side in their minds.
I don't want to look for it again now, but the sanctimony; is Canada will take your gun and shoot out a maple leaf that grows into a giant tree that obliterates the rifle by its growth. The cartoon imagines disarmed passivity flourishing by growing beyond the confines of steel rifle barrel, meaning they intend for gun grabbing to overwhelm guns.
In Canada too let no crisis be wasted.
Everything means what you want it to mean. Events mean what you force them to mean.
The conceit is, see, we are completely different from gun-loving Americans, kinder and better.
Brave good man.
It brought unexpected tears.
I guess I hadn't seen the cartoon as anything beyond the compassion of the men in the memorial, but with "join them" I can see it seems to be preparing to lift him onto the platform to join them there.
The funeral procession with crowds of people stopping along the road and standing on overpasses to catch a glimpse of the hearse was also very moving.
Cartoon has always had a notion of it is or it isn't.
The actual style and method is often the determiner, I guess.
But, here, as with Mauldin, the truth is too great for such a term, to my mind anyways.
On the other hand, Cpl. Cirillo wasn't allowed to face an equal foe, but only a coward. Doesn't diminish his sacrifice...
I'm very confused, and it isn't due to alcohol.
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I know. I agree. I wanted another term too. So I relied on Bruce MacKinnon's title is editorial cartoonist.
Cartoon, from cartouche. It's Egyptian!
The term cartouche, by soldiers who imagined the figure resembled a firearm's paper powder cartridge.
Well, perhaps not from cartouche, but the words have the same origin.
Latin: carta/charta (for both)
to Italian cartone for English cartoon.
Carton, there is the container again, the cartridge that gives us cartoon.
A cartoon is a line that encloses a color field. Most all Egyptian paintings are cartoons.
But they are not comics because they are not comical. The difference that satisfies me is cartoons can be serious and comics are not.
They're not supposed to be anyway but cartoonists are always slipping serious shit into their comics, but that's the political impulse for you.
There was a Kliban cartoon with the caption: "Ted, being a handsome man, had little trouble with pencils."
Explains a lot.
"A cartoon is a line that encloses a color field."
Thanks, Chip, for the explanation, with which I mostly agree. It's difficult, at times, to tamp down pre-conceived notions of what is and isn't.
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