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I wonder if anyone notices.

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 203 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 69 points 1 month ago

They're really fucking good at it, then.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 month ago

Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Thank you! Good stuff.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 1 month ago

His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.

[-] valen@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago
[-] classic@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?

[-] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.

Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

[-] GuerillaGorillas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I've been eating onions for a long time.

[-] classic@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

They're really good, consistently.

I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/

Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.

[-] classic@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion

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