If It Quacks Like A Hack
By Alicublog uncovers a real (albeit unintended) gem: this Mallard Fillmore strip. You see, what appeared in Jon Stewart’s parody of a civics textbook was not a satire of a particularly witless and unfunny comic strip, but an attempt to pass off a fake cartoon as real. (And if you click on July 6, you’ll see an attempt to make the same point with a painfully lame Rathergate reference!) Which is, I guess what would one expect from the author: as Roy notes, every strip Tinsley writes provides compelling evidence he has no idea what satire even means.
It should be noted, again, that what makes this strip awful is not that it’s reactionary. Would anybody be interested in a comic strip featuring a badly drawn moose reading E.J. Dionne columns? Anybody?