A Question of Style

Looking over the output -- and after a few years making with the collaging -- I note that I have style -- 'a' style, anyway.
Black is my default background.  A sort of Medievalism on my part.

Best Ratbaggery for 2019 so far... [A personal selection of comics] from Ratbag Media
But then, what I'm gearing up to --still -- is the multi panel and get back to the narrative.
Wish me luck.

Nothing but graphic political satire...

More than I know what to do with...pops out every now and then.
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More comics...recently made.

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.

My output is registering sometimes...and with practice, I get to skill up.

I house all my graphical business on my punchratbag site...but nowadays the web is where you find it or share it.

So in the main I pump out the stuff from my facebook account. 

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.

I'm preferring 'masks' to faces. Despite the photographic sources: 2 D to 3D. Parody to 'new'...

And I love the statements -- even if other folk don't  always embrace my POV.

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.
Just click on an image for a slide show.

 

Some recent graphic political satire

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.
So going down the page: Sumo wrestling, 'Where's Wally?, children's drawings, Black Adder,emigration promotion (ten pound Poms), conference attendance and voting,sleaziness, '80s film comedies(Weekend at Bernie's)...(Click on images to enlarge view.)

Recent political cartoons about Messrs Abbott and ALP

To enlarge just click on the image to partake of its message in greater detail.

As it turns out, 'Heroes of Bi-partisanship' may be my most popular political comic so far. It seems pretty sharp and savage and I like that edge immensely. Often  my  cunical take is lost of many people and they miss the 'joke'. I suspect hardly any one got 'No way'.  I guess seeing the consequences of 'Sovereign Borders' through its own obscene POV  and spin didn't register. Check out the archive HERE.