tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42517275540786227512024-03-14T04:05:54.691+10:00LeftClickDave Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05319742357589026156noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251727554078622751.post-17910189096026134922019-07-08T14:48:00.001+10:002019-07-08T14:49:20.539+10:00A Question of StyleLooking over the output -- and after a few years making with the collaging -- I note that I have style -- 'a' style, anyway.<br />
Black is my default background. A sort of Medievalism on my part.<br />
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But then, what I'm gearing up to --still -- is the multi panel and get back to the narrative.<br />
Wish me luck.<br />
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What with one thing or another, I seem to be on a graphical roll. How good the montages are is not necessary the main game.In a world full of Facebook memes my efforts are players.</div>
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My output is registering sometimes...and with practice, I get to skill up.</div>
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I house all my graphical business on my <b><a href="http://www.punchratbag.org/">punchratbag</a> </b>site...but nowadays the web is where you find it or share it.</div>
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So in the main I pump out the stuff from my facebook account. </div>
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For those into arty mode, my technique is changing. Rather than be beholden to PhotoShop 'reality' I'm preferring the effect engendered by the old scissors cut and paste techniques of the DADAists.</div>
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I'm preferring 'masks' to faces. Despite the photographic sources: 2 D to 3D. Parody to 'new'...</div>
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And I love the statements -- even if other folk don't always embrace my POV.</div>
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I love 'Aussie Rules' for instance. Too bitter for some, maybe most...and folk objected to 'Baby Throwing: the new national sport' -- when I thought it was absolutely true, and darkly and shockingly funny.<br />
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Graphic? Not too many dead bodies I hope. But then the situation does make one bitter. Not much rolling in the ails to be had. I reckon thee game is to grab a thought -- a context -- and try to express it by marrying contradictory elements.<br />
So going down the page: Sumo wrestling, '<i>Where's Wall</i>y?, children's drawings, <i>Black Adder</i>,emigration promotion (ten pound Poms), conference attendance and voting,sleaziness, '80s film comedies(Weekend at Bernie's)...(Click on images to enlarge view.)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To defend the land from the occupation of the REDS -- Vietnamese, Chinese, Indonesian or Malay -- Australia made a pact with the United States and the ongoing alliance has ensured that there is hardly a bang up shooting war worth fighting that Australian hasn’t got a hand in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our government cheer-squaded any and every US invasion. It garages its bases. And defers to its foreign policy interests. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the country sought to top up its population in the post war years it begrudgingly allowed non English speaking Europeans into the place and later engineered the demographics under cover of the nationalist ideology of multiculturalism. And lo! folk started migrating here from all over. This shift didn't have anything to do with opening up the country to ‘huddled masses yearning to be free’ but it was a gesture to those markets --like Asia, the local bourgeoisie sought to draw their profits from.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Walking through the Central Business District of any Australian state capital today you’d think the place was some melting pot of all the world's peoples. In the street would be people of Chinese, Arab, Slavic, Maori, Italian...or whatever descent. You’d presume that fortress Australia -- the chronic isolationism of the country -- had been drowned in a melting pot of mixed ethnicity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia is much more racist today than it has been for over 50 years. A conscious tag team exercise, sponsored by both the country’s Labor Party and the local Tories, has bought back a xenophobia under sponsorship of the War on Terror. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This country may not have a crudely xenophobic racist outfit like UKIP rising in the polls. We don’t need it. The duopoly of the two main political parties -- the ALP and the LNP -- are doing a fine job of racist bashing and blaming by themselves.</span></span></div>
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What with the Abbott shenanigans and the fall of the LNP from government in Queensland the political universe has been kind to satire.</div>
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For my money --since I'm the only one paying -- both my technique and my confidence is improving. I reckon 'We had such big plans ...' is one of the best synthesis I'm assembled. Check out the archive <a href="http://www.punchratbag.org/p/political-satire.html">HERE.</a></blockquote>
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Most satirical cartoonists I follow tend not to agree with Joe Sacco's take on CH. </div>
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The ready conflation of 'freedom of speech' fillip with free-for-all racism seems to have missed their perspective, at least within the black and white constraints of comic making.</div>
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But Sacco attempts to express the complexity of the context and reflect that back on the responsibilities of satirists.</div>
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At issue ultimately is calling out CH for what it is and for what it does. That's not the same as advocating that satire be censored. </div>
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Unfortunately the whole 'Je suis Charlie' thing will transit a pandemic of public Islamophobia under guise of 'freedom of speech' and the most racist dog in any land will be celebrated for their courage and POV.</div>
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Under cover of 'satire' -- more public racism against Moslems, more excuses for rolling back civil liberties and a festering rationale for either killing more of 'them' offshore and xenophobia.</div>
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"Freedom of speech" historically is supposedly about empowerment and democracy -- enabling the oppressed and brutalised to articulate their protest. </div>
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So how does that stack up with the current fall out?</div>
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We'll spend $29.3 billion on defence this year -- at least 1.6 % of the GDP -- but since 2003 the Commonwealth has spent just $8 billion on emergency relief, with only $115 million since 2009 going to mitigation measures.</div>
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This is Australia after all... in the stranglehold of Climate Change. </div>
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So is this perverted or what?</div>
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The Reserve Bank in conjunction with the federal Treasury is making arrangements for turning the whole country into a limited liability company. </div>
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And lucky you:every Australian citizen will be offered shares in the float. The new enterprise will take over the country as a going concern, together with all available assets, pre-existing good will, gold reserves and debenture stocks.</div>
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We're fast-tracking it, that's all. </div>
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The formation of <b>Terra Australis Proprietary Limited</b> and its listing on the nation's stock exchanges is intended to shore up the local share market at a time when investors could do with an injection of confidence.</div>
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The present zigging and zagging of the All Ordinaries does no-one any good. Your everyday, run-of-the-mill Aussie battler-type person could do without such uncertainty.</div>
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GOOD NEWS! I have survived another year. The smiling dial that marks me out has not changed one smidgin in yonks. I'm ageless, that's what I am. I'm still the same bloke I was way back when ; still my dear old mother's son, the <i>crème de la crème</i> of the Highett Rileys in the prime of his wonderful life.</div>
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How can this be, you may ask. Surely one day he must be touched by cruel time?</div>
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My resilience from the toll life levies rests on a little-known feature of my existence: I'm the second son of God.</div>
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I am not usually one for public confessions, but I feel that something must be said. You can imagine how difficult this is for me to admit to. I am just an ordinary Joe Blow trying to make their own way in the world. There's nothing special about me. And since there's not, maybe what I have to say many of you can relate to.</div>
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I'm different, perhaps, because in this matter I'm more in touch with my feelings than you are (or maybe it's just the way I was bought up). When the consequences of my actions dawned on me I, personally, found the guilt overwhelming.</div>
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In order to seek some relief, at least allow me to confess what I have done.</div>
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You know that huge budgetary shortfall the new federal government is talking so much about? The one that seems so hard to addres without financial pain and suffering... </div>
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I caused that. Little ol' me — through my own carelessness and selfishness — drove this country so deeply into debt.</div>
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But how can one person, you ask, be responsible for debts of such a grand scale? I, on my lonesome, of course, wasn't that wasteful. But me and a few million others like me can do a whole lot of damage when we throw caution to the wind.</div>
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Pick a day — any day — and there is sure to be a lot of human semen entering the world from private parts unknown. What it gets up to — when it gets out there — is anyone's guess.<br />
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Each day there's buckets of the stuff discharging forth half a teaspoon at a time. If we were to check the manifest, despite the current trend for low numbers, 200-300 million spermatozoa are on board bravely going where no wriggly thing has gone before. Just imagine how many sperm are sent on a mission each Saturday night! What with one thing and another, most of them are going to be dead by breakfast. </div>
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If it wasn't for those few who make it, where would the patriarchy be today. For millennia we just thought milking males for semen was a fun thing to do. We didn't know it could help make babies. And now that we do, every sperm is suddenly so very sacred — so sacred that we are encouraged not to spill a single drop.<br />
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The top image is the most popular I've done. the slogan comes from Alex Bainbridge, the <a href="http://www.socialist-alliance.org/">Socialist Alliance</a> national co-convenor -- but I'm dedicated to the graphic as it gave me an opportunity to pay homage to <a href="http://www.johnheartfield.com/John-Heartfield-Exhibition/german-dada-art/heartfield-politic-magazines/heartfield-rote-fahne/heartfield-five-fingers"><b>John Heartfield</b>.</a><br />
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Here we are, somewhere in the South Pacific. That's the big picture: a big brown stain in a puddle.</div>
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Those in the know didn't know about this spot for some time. It was <i>terra incognito </i>— the secret country.</div>
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The first civilised person (by that I mean someone who wore underpants) to visit these shores was <b>Lemuel Gulliver.</b> </div>
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His visit down-under was to the outback settlement of Lilliput, which was located in the inland region of what is now known as Western Australia.</div>
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See if I'm right. Gulliver's first journey ignored the big dry bit in order to have himself pegged out on a beach at some distance from the briny and within cooee of Uluru. </div>
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This spot is not now listed on any Admiralty chart, but back then it must have been. </div>
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Kathump! Gulliver lands in WA and the cute little Lilliputians take him to their hearts. They feed him and clothe him, and besides the bits that get edited out for the sake of the kiddies, a good time is had by big and small.</div>
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I wonder if I could have a few moments of your time?</div>
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I feel that it is my responsibility sometimes to remind the reading public that a society such as ours goes about its everyday business often with strict regard to certain well-established norms of behaviour.</div>
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In this regard, I wonder if I could prevail upon you — it will only take a moment — to reach down between your legs and see if you can locate something to grab onto. You don't need to go far — just keep searching at arms length in a region often referred to as the crotch.</div>
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More than likely you'll know what I'm talking about as many of you no doubt find an excuse to visit this locale several times a day. In your hand is a tackle box. If you don't possess this item of anatomy, I need trouble you no longer. You can go back to the crossword.</div>
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The rest of you should not take this opportunity to spend an undue amount of time down there exploring a structural component which you are perhaps already quite familiar with. You can adjust it. Hitch it up. That will do. All I'm interested in is reminding you that it's there.</div>
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How can I put this without giving offence?<br />
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There are some in our society who live off the labour of others.<br />
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Don't get me wrong. Most of us get along without recourse to such means, but there are an anonymous few who exploit their fellow human beings without compunction — and, what's more, they have been doing it unchallenged for years.<br />
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Does that seem so fantastic? Here is a conspiracy going on under our very noses, and no-one owns up to it. You won't read about it on the front page of the local daily, nor has <i>Sixty Minutes</i> covered the story.
But these types do exist.<br />
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They're among us now.
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Almost routine is the fact that reasons for cynicism rain down upon us and with a little bit of cut and paste the energy is harnessed for the common good.</div>
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I reckon I'm pretty much reconciled.<br />
Yep. I'm much more reconciled than I was last week.<br />
Reconciliation is all the go. I'm reconciled. You're reconciled. We are all reconciled. Oh, it's just lovely. Brings a tear to my eye it does.<br />
You wouldn't by chance be Aboriginal would you?<br />
Not even the teeniest?<br />
Because if you were I could reconcile with you and you could reconcile with me and it would be like the real thing.<br />
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In a standard working day of eight hours, it may take me four hours to produce the equivalent of my wages. If the time needed to cover my wage packet is reduced from four to two hours, then the bit what's left increases from four to six hours.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the bit what's lef</i>t that makes free enterprise what it is today — exceedingly profitable... <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">One after another; even a few in a couple of 24 hour periods! </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">All my graphic work -- my comic making -- hangs out <b><a href="http://www.punchratbag.org/">at PunchRatbag</a> </b>and I now do the political stuff under the<i> </i></span><i>nom de plume</i> of 'Prof Ratbag.<span style="text-align: start;"> </span></div>
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Moving right along with the possibilities I am now exploring l..o..n..g comics that run down the page. Easy to scroll through as the storyline unfolds. </div>
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But longer/page-down comics should also mean that I have more room to say stuff -- good or bad as that may be. Nonetheless, this is the technique ruled over by <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rius">Rius</a> </b>in his various political books , esp his '<i>For Beginners'</i> series.</div>
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I grabbed the teeth and mouth from John Heartfield's <i>War and Corpses </i>(at left) which has been a long time fav of mine..</div>
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It makes me feel like a hip hop artist -- sampling stuff -- teeth riffs -- to feed montages.</blockquote>
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But then<b>, <a href="http://www.johnheartfield.com/john_heartfield_PHOTOMONTEUR_ARCHIVE.html">John Heartfield's grandson</a></b> has recently drawn me into his circle as part of his <b><a href="http://www.johnheartfield.com/heartfield-DADA-POLITICS-ART.html">archive project</a></b> celebrating his grandfather's work.</div>
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When I consider how difficult it must have been for Heartfield to construct his montages out of bits of paper my ready use of digital images and the online resources of Googling makes my work almost obscenely easy in comparison. </div>
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Heartfield's montages are standalone powerful graphics that transcend the political moment of their targeting while he explored a succession of themes that still bear down upon us. As a Marxist he also recognised the power of contradictions and counterpositions. </div>
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What he achieved has had a huge impact on graphics--even in advertising! -- that have followed. </div>
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For my money Heartfield's contemporary heir is<i> </i><b><a href="http://www.clowncrack.com/"><i>Mr Fish</i> -- aka Dwayne Booth </a>. </b>Although not strictly a montage artist, Mr Fish has a perspective that harnesses his materials in like mode to Heartfield even though his resources are much more eclectic --this being the digital age and all. </div>
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It strikes me that montage rather than pen and ink cartooning offers a different cutting edge primarily I suspect because it has to so often rely on what already exists. Parody is easier, for instance because the 'real world' can be turned on itself. </div>
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But then if all that fails...<br />
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