What’s clear is that the Right-wing’s whole thing doesn’t exactly attract (good) artists. They tend to borrow and steal most of their iconography rather than make something new1. Strangely, the whole movement also seems to be both unable to execute parody nor see the humor in self-parody, which I assert is a faculty needed to pull off good political art.
So that puts some serious creative power in league with everyone else. Should be interesting.
1 - MAGA is a great example of this. The slogan itself is lifted from Reagan’s 1980 campaign, so it’s nothing new. The current slogan marketing “design” is nothing more than a white serif font on a red field, which in highly-technical graphic design terms is called: “lazy as fuck.”
Reagan stole it from an American as well but the theme that everything was somehow better 40 years ago predates this country as a whole by like I dunno the history of the world presumably.
What’s clear is that the Right-wing’s whole thing doesn’t exactly attract (good) artists.
Not a fan of their views, but the likes of StoneToss, Tom MacDonald and Seamus Coughlin aren’t exactly bad at what they do.
They tend to borrow and steal most of their iconography rather than make something new
The counter argument would be that having a visual language of common symbols and representations allows you to convey a lot with a little. One of the running bits from TheLeftCantMeme crowd is that left wing memes and comics tend to rely on walls of text to express anything, which is an exaggeration but it’s not entirely wrong.
What’s clear is that the Right-wing’s whole thing doesn’t exactly attract (good) artists. They tend to borrow and steal most of their iconography rather than make something new1. Strangely, the whole movement also seems to be both unable to execute parody nor see the humor in self-parody, which I assert is a faculty needed to pull off good political art.
So that puts some serious creative power in league with everyone else. Should be interesting.
1 - MAGA is a great example of this. The slogan itself is lifted from Reagan’s 1980 campaign, so it’s nothing new. The current slogan marketing “design” is nothing more than a white serif font on a red field, which in highly-technical graphic design terms is called: “lazy as fuck.”
…Which in turn lifted it from the National Front’s “Make Britain Great Again,” which is the last time it was actually clever wordplay.
Reagan stole it from an American as well but the theme that everything was somehow better 40 years ago predates this country as a whole by like I dunno the history of the world presumably.
The joke is Britain’s full name is Great Britain.
Oh wow. So it’s double-poached from an actually witty slogan? These cretins really are the worst.
Not a fan of their views, but the likes of StoneToss, Tom MacDonald and Seamus Coughlin aren’t exactly bad at what they do.
The counter argument would be that having a visual language of common symbols and representations allows you to convey a lot with a little. One of the running bits from TheLeftCantMeme crowd is that left wing memes and comics tend to rely on walls of text to express anything, which is an exaggeration but it’s not entirely wrong.