Editorial Explanations: Trick or Treat?

Oct 29, 2011

Trick or Treat?

I have no idea what Cleaves uses for inspiration, but we could use a bit more of it around here, if you know what I mean.

As far as I can tell, this is just a demented "Hey, Halloween is coming!" cartoon. But if anyone wants to claim that, for example, the giant girly-drink represents the fruitiness of the American capitalist system and the zombie is the depraved hordes of grasping, brainless Occupy Wall Street, please, go ahead.

4 comments:

Jee Jay4:35 PM, October 29, 2011
are you sure Ann Cleaves is an _editorial_ cartoonist? The last two things you posted look like the kind of spot drawings the New Yorker uses to break up text on a page.

and is it true she was the fourth wife of Henry the VIII?
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Andrew Wheeler5:36 PM, October 29, 2011
Jee Jay: I've wondered about your first question myself, but she is a member of AAEC, even if I have no idea where her cartoons actually run.

I suspect this is a different Anne of Cleves, but I'm prepared to be wrong about that, too.
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Glenn Hauman3:02 PM, October 31, 2011
The drink is called a Zombie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_%28cocktail%29
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Paul Berge11:59 PM, October 31, 2011
Why, yes, and I do believe that the homeowner is a zombie, too.

Just think how incisive this cartoon would have been if either of those zombies had been dressed as Anne of Cleves.
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