This, my friends, is what we call a muddled cartoon. Day wanted to do an "American is nuts about guns" cartoon, but his fellow cartoonists had gotten to all of the good ideas first, and this is all that was left at the bottom of the barrel.
Mar 27, 2012
Lake Michigan Has a Real Nice Pull
Bill Day, 3/23/12:
We've seen Florida as a gun -- both with the muzzle in the panhandle and pointing south from Miami -- and the whole US as a gun, or collection of guns. Now we see the US as the trigger guard of a gun -- implying, what, that we keep Canada from accidentally going off when it's stuck in a pocket? - and Trayvon Martin is a spot on the Florida-shaped bit of that trigger guard.
This, my friends, is what we call a muddled cartoon. Day wanted to do an "American is nuts about guns" cartoon, but his fellow cartoonists had gotten to all of the good ideas first, and this is all that was left at the bottom of the barrel.
This, my friends, is what we call a muddled cartoon. Day wanted to do an "American is nuts about guns" cartoon, but his fellow cartoonists had gotten to all of the good ideas first, and this is all that was left at the bottom of the barrel.
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