Oktubre 30, 2018

The New Yorker presents a gloomy look ahead to the midterm elections.

It's a 9-panel comic by Ali Fitzgerald, "America!: A Pre-Midterm-Election Guide to Hibernation."

61 komento:

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

If you can't see it because you don't have a subscription, please just move on. It's well drawn, funny, and apt, and if you miss it, you miss it. Please don't comment just to say that.

Arashi ayon kay ...

So if there is no blue tsunami, all proper thinking folks should hibernate for 7 months? Yeah - that will help. So when they come out of their caves, and Donald Trump is still POTUS - what do they do next, commit seppuku in Times Square?

It is another election - not the end of the freaking world. Get some perspective for chrissakes.

rcocean ayon kay ...

Hopefully, the New Yorker will be so gloomy after the mid-terms they will commit suicide - but they won't.

rcocean ayon kay ...

Funny and apt.

Now, there's a combination you rarely see.

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

I can see it and don't have a prescription.

Features Eric the Fruitbat!

Temujin ayon kay ...

I thought it was pretty funny, and well illustrated. And, yes, totally New York. I have family there who are still in fetal positions from Nov. 2016.

Arashi ayon kay ...

It is funny - but only because so many people actually think the midterms are going to end life as we know it in the US of A.

Michael K ayon kay ...

The suspicion is starting to creep in and displace the jubilation at the Blue Wave.

Karen of Texas ayon kay ...

Dear God, pleeease let them hibernate. Go for that cocoon look - it'll not only isolate you from us but also us from you.

Just imagine - no more tantrums, marches, freakouts... Is there a song in there?

Tommy Duncan ayon kay ...

I guess you had to be there.

Arashi ayon kay ...

Now that is even funnier.

So if no blue take over, and the left then cannot approach any sort of civil discourse, how much more are they going to act out in public? Will there be mass suicides at Whole Foods? Will the Seattle city government emigrate to North Korea? Will Portland burn itself to the ground in protest. Will the entire state of California just give up and ask Mexico if they can become the nortern most state of Mexico?

Peachy ayon kay ...

Pittsburgh Synagogue Rabbi: Donald Trump 'Certainly Welcome' Following Tree of Life Shooting

Haters tell a different story.

Dave in Tucson ayon kay ...

> funny, and apt,

I would've said self-indulgent narcissism, but potayto, potahto, I guess.

MayBee ayon kay ...

Really. Things are so good in this country right now. Ignore the people who want to make it sound awful. They are trying to raise money via politics or advertising.

JackWayne ayon kay ...

Who really thinks the terminally insane will hibernate after the midterms?

Birkel ayon kay ...

Is the New Yorker paid by Big Tech and Democrat donors to create these cartoons or stories?
Or is that just the Weakly Standard?

I just don't see the humor.
Seems basic.

Arashi ayon kay ...

I think they will just get more vocal and violent, aided and abbetted by the MSM and the Democrats - and it will be DJT and the Russians fault.

Arashi ayon kay ...

Oh , I forgot the /sarc tag..

SGT Ted ayon kay ...

It's actually kind of boring.

Michael K ayon kay ...

OMG! Beto's wife is a billionaire heiress.

Whoda thunk ?

Sam L. ayon kay ...

I found it...weak. Weren't New Yorker cartoons supposed to be pretty good? Not this one.

Curious George ayon kay ...

I can see it. Meh.

Mister Brickhouse ayon kay ...

Makes me glad I'm not a gpod hu-white. I know because only good whites have bat-mitzvahs.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

Or How To Waive The Blues

bgates ayon kay ...

It's a 9-panel comic

not very long, by modern graphic novel standards, though it feels interminable.

Bad Lieutenant ayon kay ...

Lame, feeble, worthless. And that's with pleasing subject matter! Althouse, all your taste is in in your mouth.

Howard ayon kay ...

Waddaya expect from New Yonkers, eh Lieutenant

Bill Peschel ayon kay ...

Ann, I'm glad you like it, because I found it mildly amusing, but not very funny.

I'm honest and not trying to be condescending about this. Every time I encounter something from The New Yorker that's supposed to be funny, I can't see the joke.

I had picked up "Rejected Cartoons from The New Yorker," and laughed out loud several times. Some of them were vulgar, some were cringe-inducing, but most of them were far funnier than what I read in the magazine.

Then, I picked up a book that's nominated for the Thurber humor prize: Jenny Allen's “Would Everybody Please Stop? Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas.” It even has a blurb from Andy Borowitz.

Nothing. A late middle age woman complaining about her life. The funniest, if you put a gun to my head, might be the one in which she's flirting with a younger man at some dinner. It had a nice pathetic ring to it that reminded me of Dorothy Parker's short stories. (The other nominees was John Hodgman for his memoir of a sad childhood and another memoir about a woman's childhood with a R.C. priest for a father.)

Now this comic. Nicely drawn. The "bat mitzvah" line was a nice pun. But nothing about it was relatable. Abandoned screenplays? Worrying about your sexuality (maybe in the '70s about your geyness, but now?) Why would a snake be a distraction (compared with the tweet, which I understand).

Is this how well-off New Yorkers think nowadays? That must be it. All that wealth and comfort, and the niggling thought that nobody apart from themselves take them seriously.

Which, considering the election, is true.

Bill Peschel ayon kay ...

I should have finished: So Ann, if you have any insights on who this is funny to, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Howard ayon kay ...

The shouts and murmurs page is NEVER funny. Humor is the hardest art.

Howard ayon kay ...

+In answer to Bills question: a mental patient.

Molly ayon kay ...

(eaglebeak)

Glad I cancelled my sub when I did. But I can still see it....

Suggest buying The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker (Book & CD) instead.

DanTheMan ayon kay ...

I know it's parody, but I suspect there are many on the left who deal with grief in exactly this way: surround themselves with scented candles, drag a friend over, and debate their sexuality.
Whatever works, I guess....

tcrosse ayon kay ...

I thought it was hilarious, in the New Yorker cartoon sense of the term. But who said that any New Yorker cartoon could be captioned "I'm thinking of killing myself"?

Qwinn ayon kay ...

Replace every caption with "I think I'll kill myself."

Yep. Makes it funnier (not that it's difficul5). Still works.

Qwinn ayon kay ...

Damnit, tcrosse beat me to it.

buwaya ayon kay ...

Neurotic humor.
Or making fun of neurotics?

This is one of those caste-markers for anxiety. The liberals become loudly depressed and neurotic, the rightists quietly prepare for war, buying munitions and planting caches. Or they just as quietly self-medicate with opioids and commit suicide. Not all of both tribes, but enough to create stereotypes.

Under stress the left screams and talks and publishes pieces in the New Yorker, the right quietly does something, even if it is self-destructive.

FIDO ayon kay ...

I have had oysters, Vodka, hockey and time w my sweetie. Let them rage and rail. Let them be miserable.

I am content

dwick ayon kay ...

Just another reason why I give thanks every day that my ancestors moved out of New York some 200 years ago...

Ty ayon kay ...

So apart from the Jewish bat, which is a bit difficult to interpret charitably, this cartoon mostly reminds me of Silence of the Lambs. This bear might be a serial killer.

Or maybe I just didn't understand it.

Michael K ayon kay ...

Under stress the left screams and talks and publishes pieces in the New Yorker, the right quietly does something, even if it is self-destructive.

In Ambrose's book, "Citizen Soldiers" he says new replacements would show up with almost no training, They would come up to the line, talk, light cigarettes and make noise. The combat veterans would tell them to shut up and be quiet.

In 3 days lots of them would be dead.

These kids might be their grandkids, if they had had any kids.

Peachy ayon kay ...

Weeeeeeee this is fun.

you gotta take what you can get.

Churchy LaFemme: ayon kay ...

Now, Peter Arno could draw a New Yorker cartoon.

Wince ayon kay ...

Amusing. Off-beat. Politics didn’t weigh on my impression of the comic’s worth as art.

Must’ve missed something, I’m proud to say.

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil ayon kay ...

It is another election - not the end of the freaking world. Get some perspective for chrissakes.

10/30/18, 6:11 PM

Every election in recent memory has been treated - by both sides - as The Most Important Election Ever. (I think 2016 actually was.)

If the government were smaller and less intrusive, fewer people would feel like it will the end of the freaking world if their side loses.

PM ayon kay ...

1 Not even the NYT has tds as badly as The NYer and that's saying something.

2 That demographic really believed the midterms would bring about impeachment.

Douglas B. Levene ayon kay ...

I found the comic very funny and encouraging. Next Tuesday is probably not going to be the disaster we feared a few months ago. Praise be.

Biff ayon kay ...

Bill Peschel said..."Ann, I'm glad you like it, because I found it mildly amusing, but not very funny. I'm honest and not trying to be condescending about this. Every time I encounter something from The New Yorker that's supposed to be funny, I can't see the joke."

It's not unusual for me to find New Yorker cartoons to be amusing, but that usually comes with a feeling that they're not nearly as funny as they are "supposed" to be. I lived in Manhattan for a few years, and I find that I get more out of the cartoons by picturing acquaintances of mine from those days as the characters in the cartoons. The cartoons definitely capture a zeitgeist that is pretty common in NYC, especially uptown.

I suppose that I can appreciate the cartoons as being strong examples of a particular genre, while not being a particular fan of the genre, in the same way that I can appreciate the technical skills of certain musicians or artists without caring much for their actual works.

Biff ayon kay ...

PS. tcrosse and Qwinn mentioned the "I'm going to kill myself" / "I think I'm going to kill myself" caption gag. I think that really does capture an unspoken, snarky world-weariness that underlies a fair amount of New Yorker humor.

I'm not sure if there are earlier appearances of the caption gag, but David Burge of Iowahawk fame has referred to it as "Burge's Law" a few times over the years. https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/447763019628425217

See also http://ace.mu.nu/archives/337972.php

Robert Cook ayon kay ...

That's hysterical!

Robert Cook ayon kay ...

"Now, Peter Arno could draw a New Yorker cartoon."

Apparently, that cartoon is where that phrase originated, to become a catch-phrase!

rehajm ayon kay ...

It's revealing that there's an easy politics to sexuality equivalence with these people.

I miss Obama the Boyfriend. Or Bill Clinton the Boyfriend. Or a cute Kennedy.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Lame. Very lame.

Bill Peschel: Then, I picked up a book that's nominated for the Thurber humor prize: Jenny Allen's “Would Everybody Please Stop? Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas. It even has a blurb from Andy Borowitz.

Nothing. A late middle age woman complaining about her life.


The titles are always a give-away. "Would Everybody Please Stop"? Lol. Always sound like Onion parodies. They're written by and for people who are parodies of themselves. And/or people who never got over the "Young Adult" stage of reading and writing.

(I'm always getting Audible and Kindle ads in my email for crap with like this. Why? I have never in my life bought anything remotely resembling this genre of writing.)

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Molly: Suggest buying The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker (Book & CD) instead.

Yes. I didn't find the linked panels lame because "New Yorker cartoons" aren't my cup of tea. The classics are, well, classics. (But I haven't looked at the New Yorker in years. I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.)

The Crack Emcee ayon kay ...

The New Yorker presents a gloomy look ahead to the midterm elections.

I can hardly blame them.

FIDO ayon kay ...

Funny. I am not gloomy at all at all.

The WORST that happens is the Dems take the house and shut down investigations into the FBI.

Does anyone not a partisan Democrat think that is a good look for Democrats?

Does anyone think impotent Imprachment talk is a good look for Democrats?

It is a beautiful day out.

M Jordan ayon kay ...

I don’t lie New Yorker humor. It’s innerlectual. And I’m merely a pseudo-innerlect.

Unknown ayon kay ...


Ali's

"Donald Trump and I" contains even greater quantities of Schadenfreude...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/donald-trump-and-i-have-the-same-favorite-song


Read while playing some Beck
I'm a loser

Thank you Ann for this delicious taste of what he hope all New Yorkers are feeling every minute.. you bastards

<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ali-fitzgerald>https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ali-fitzgerald - her collection of belly button lint</a>

Bill Peschel ayon kay ...

Thanks, people, especially Biff, for confirming that New Yorker cartoons are reflective of a very inbred parochial environment.

Seriously, the contrast between what I find funny and what the New Yorker finds funny is pretty extreme. I wrote a review of the rejected cartoons book. Ignore the words, I posted three examples from the book.

Unknown ayon kay ...

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/post-election-nihilist-horoscope

Ali's Post election nihilist horoscope is a bit over the top to make it through...

hstad ayon kay ...

I really don't understand the hype about this election. Most President's loose the House after Presidential elections. Hell, the next election is only 2 years away. The House can't accomplish anything in that time period. Moreover, if the Repubs., hold the Senate the the Dems., carved out a 'hallow victory'. Finally, you still have President Trump and he does have a very powerful 'veto'. Also, Obama said - “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” so does President Trump. Therefore, don't understand the hysteria other then ratings bonanza.

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