Originally Posted By mele <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080717_12_OKLA363263" target="_blank">http://www.tulsaworld.com/news...LA363263</a> Excerpt: OKLAHOMA CITY — Some Oklahoma County voters can expect to receive comic books in the mail soon, but the subject matter will have a serious tone. The 16-page publication prepared by Commissioner Brent Rinehart's re-election campaign lampoons gays and criticizes Rinehart's political opponents. It also features an angel who supports the embattled commissioner and Satan, who supports his critics. "It's more or less a story of my experiences of the last four years of being the county commissioner of District 2," Rinehart told The Oklahoman, which obtained the comic on Wednesday. Toga-wearing gays, political figures, trench coat-clad henchmen, concerned residents and Rinehart make up the rest of the comic's characters. In one sequence, Satan says: "If I can get the kids to believe homosexuality is normal!" The angel replies: "Hey Satan, not with Brent around you won't!" ____________ The comic (in all of it's awesomeness): <a href="http://downloads.newsok.com/documents/rinehartcartoon.pdf" target="_blank">http://downloads.newsok.com/do...toon.pdf</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates I have been gay ever since one of the minions of Satan stole my soul at the Kroger. Be careful the magical minions of Satan are everywhere. Oooooo, Be afraid.
Originally Posted By dshyates Oh, by the way, "Commissioner Brent Rinehart's re-election campaign" Yeah, good luck with that. Let me know how it turns out.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan That is one great cartoon. Nice draftsmanship, too. I especially like that line about "A pedifiles dream come true!" Thank goodness Brent is out there fighting against freaks with foot fetishes.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan And for someone so aggresively homophobic, I must say his logo is very, very gay. Brent Rinehart, with the word 'hart" in a heart? LOL! Fabulous!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan LOL, thanks for that cartoon, Mele. That is some good stuff right there. I love the art by "Shane Suiters." Genius! My favorite is the woman who has hair that looks like an exposed brain. LOL! I may get that as a tattoo. It's that good.
Originally Posted By mele LOL! I thought you'd get a laugh out of it. Or have deep pangs of artistic envy. ;-D
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I do! I like the way Brent in those drawings looks almost like Satan, or Tom Delay (or is that redundant?). And Gomer who starts off the tale dresses in some sort of bizarre overall/leisure suit ensemble. The depiction of Sheriff Whetsel looks suspiciously like John Waters. But the cream of the crop (and there's a LOT to choose from in this howler!) is Satan hoping for rivals Maughn or Johnson to win, with the Asexual Angel of Goodness saying: "THEY ARE POLITICAL OPPURTUNISTS." Subtle, sly and yet revealing. I can't explain the man (?) woman (?) with the bird-like beak hat. But mad props to the cartunist for all those blocks of reversed-out white on black type. You know how long it takes to do that by hand? Damn. The Sistine Chapel was painted faster.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 What a hoot, mele! One thing I noticed: apparently he's been indicted for some sort of political chicanery, and it blames his "enemies" for scheduling the trial after the primary in September, at which point he'll inevitably be "exonerated," but only after the primary. Digging a little deeper, this means that he's the incumbent county commissioner, facing a primary fight against at least two opponents (who he names). County commissioner, at least in most states (I can't claim a lot of knowledge on Oklahoma) is normally a job where the incumbent doesn't face a primary fight at all - the Rep. or Dem. machine of the county normally just backs the incumbent, unless there's a pretty good reason not to. Hmmmm. Also noticed plenty of misspellings ("your" for "you're," "to" for "too" and others), but perhaps this is a conscious attempt to appeal to the people this clown considers his base? Also, notice the figure holding the sign saying "We're Here, we're queer get use (sic) to it." The sign is so large you can't see the face, but check the outfit. You can't fool me. That's Peter Pan! Those of you closer to DL will have to ask Peter next time you go on his ride why he's siding with Satan.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan LOL! I saw that Peter Pan hidden behind the sign. Also featured in that line up appears to be none other than a very buffed Harry Potter, though has some sort of foot-perspective issues going on, not to mention either very unfortunate clothing folds in the pelvic region. I love this art! The inbred children defending Mr. Rine(hart) is great, too. "We like him! He paved the track at our school!" Yes, so that the little children apparently could chase Frankenstein around the track at recess. Well, whatever gets kids exercising, I guess... And remember.... Brent ask's to many questions!
Originally Posted By JeffG >> "LOL! I saw that Peter Pan hidden behind the sign. Also featured in that line up appears to be none other than a very buffed Harry Potter, though has some sort of foot-perspective issues going on, not to mention either very unfortunate clothing folds in the pelvic region." << It looked like Hercules was in there as well. I'm not sure that calling Hercules gay is a particularly wise idea... -Jeff
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "One thing I noticed: apparently he's been indicted for some sort of political chicanery, and it blames his "enemies" for scheduling the trial after the primary in September, at which point he'll inevitably be "exonerated," but only after the primary." Yeah, I saw that too...it was kind of sandwiched in-between everything else. It's kind of like slipping your report card in with some other random things for your parents to sign, hoping they wouldn't notice and just sign it all! The art is kind of funny in a Mike Judge kind of way. It's funny how he portrays regular people though. I wonder if he was going after that "King of the Hill" look...standing by a fence in overalls & stuff.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 A quote from the article linked also struck me as funny because I noticed it in the comic. "Keith Gaddie, a University of Oklahoma political science professor, called the book "one of the strangest things" he'd ever seen. "I've never seen a comic book with the phrase 'anal sodomy' in it before. That was a new one for me."" I wonder what other kinds there are?
Originally Posted By DlandDug "Anal" sodomy is performed with great care and obsessive attention to detail.
