Stan Kelly: Editorial Cartoonist and Comic Book Fan

[history79]

Source: https://www.theonion.com/tag/editorial-cartoon

Comments

[locuatico]

Okay... I could take the "Stan Lee" as a friendly (if incredibly tone-deafed) jab at him (Stan "The man(who refused to hire editorial cartoonists)" Lee)... if not... 90% of the comic...

But boy is his "Disney" comic hilarious by how wrong it's prediction was.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

So Stan Kelly is Stan Lee's evil and stupid evil clone?

[lordultimus]

And the Disney acquisition one.

[agent8]

These come from The Onion, a well known satirical website. With this in mind I have to assume that this Stan Kelly guy is being satirical with these cartoons. I hope to God he is anyway.

[cyberghostface]

They are. Stan Kelly isn’t even a real person, they’re done by Ward Sutton. They’re supposed to be ridiculous.

[skjam]

Yep, they're largely a parody of a certain breed of conservative editorial cartoonists. (Ben Garrison is the current actual exemplar of the style.)

[lordultimus]

I was kind of wondering, especially with the "Trump's camp for kids".

[locuatico]

Edited it (because I did not like how I phrased the Stan Lee one) and changed it to Disney to xD. But all his comics bashing marvel are hilarious in hindsight

[walkingthroughforest]

It's 👏the 👏onion 👏

[cypherfdp]

seeing kelly around here is a real christmas surprise

[deathcrist2000]

The sad thing is this isn’t distinguishable from Ben Garrison’s work.

[zachbeacon]

Can't tell if joking or just stupid.

[lego_joker]

Somehow Ben Garrison has access to colorists, though...

[roxas832]

That one on college campuses and feminism isn't any different from an actual right wing cartoon on the subject.

[crabby_lioness]

Irony left behind a stinky corpse.

[lilacsigil]

Yeah, I'm not sure how this is making fun of those cartoons rather than just replicating them.

[alicemacher]

Well, that one in particular is so over the top silly... I mean check out the background gags: a burning American flag on the college building, a naked Lady Liberty poised on a tree branch. I could see an actual right-wing periodical rejecting the cartoon on the basis of the second gag. Yep, it's parody. Not an especially clever parody, but still.

[lilacsigil]

I'm not American, so I think our tropes are a bit different! Unfortunately, we do have conservative cartoonists here too, and the excessive labelling of everything just in case we don't get every little nuance really makes it look like a real conservative cartoon.

[deathcrist2000]

I mean, he could do it himself.

[poshmerchant]

It has more self-knowledge than an actual right wing cartoon. Note how in both the idyllic, uh, 1960s and today the same man is making passes at a student, except that today they've aged several decades and this has perhaps altered their perception of reality.

[poshmerchant]

For whatever reason, my favourite Onion cartoon is this one from Rudy Giuliani's failed 2008 bid for the Republic presidential nomination:

[cyberghostface]

Because they're deliberately over the top and outrageous. I.e. MLK Jr looking down on the guy buying black porn.

[lilacsigil]

That one was good and definitely over-the-top enough! But most of the others, especially the "co-ed" one, no.

[rainspirit]

The guy being spurned/maced has some not-so-subtle similarities to the cartoonist in the bottom-right...

[cyberghostface]

Jesus with guns or Trump camp?

[mastermahan]

Plus he's clearly the same guy, only decades older, meaning her hostile reaction is well-warranted.

[mastermahan]

In some ways, "Kelly" is actually less ridiculous than Ben Garrison. Kelly gave Trump a muffin top, whereas Garrison uses a fat helping of artistic license.

[hotfoot]

Yeah, it's the Onion, these are satirical.

[icon_uk]

Joking, it's the Onion.

[lencannon]

Most of Kelly's comics are about some type of deep-seeded grudge or resentment. He drinks too much, his family doesn't talk to him anymore, he REALLY likes old Archie comics, he's not doing so hot at the old editorial game but it is NOT his fault.

[zachbeacon]

Yeah, these days Onion headlines read like actual news :p

[tripodeca113]

Sadly while I can't draw, don't understand history or government that well, and have only a vague understanding of current event, I fear I have to much knowledge of popular culture to be a political cartoonist.

[full_metal_ox]

Figure that this is the graphic equivalent of Stephen Colbert's old Daily Show persona.

[bmaryott]

I know these are supposed to be a parody of political cartoons, but they're far too tone-deaf to be funny.