Our Picture #10 Best Cartoon of 2007 at Free Republic

Last night we got an email from Pookie at Free Republic:

"To refresh your memory... I run the daily cartoon thread at Free Republic where I occasionally post your wonderful work. IAC, I post more than 13,000 cartoons per year & at the end of each month several of us select the top 15 for that month (at the end of the year, members of Free Republic can vote on the resulting 180 cartoons in the Best Of The Year preliminary round voting). This voting pares down the 180 to 30 (+ ties) for the final round.

Your cartoon finished 10th for Best Cartoon of 2007! I've attached your "trophy".

You can see which of yours won by viewing the results for the final round of the voting thread here:

Congratulations,
Jamie (aka pookie18 at Free Republic)

Thanks, Pookie!

We like all the cartoons on that page and feel honored to be in such company.

Here's our finalist:



It first appeared as an illustration to this story we wrote for Pajamas Media, and then a shorter version of it on the Cube a few days later: The Alternative Secret History of the World.

At first the image had no attribution because we never expected it to be anything more than an illustration. In that form it wound up in Rush Limbaugh's inbox, emailed to him without crediting the source. Rush liked it so much that he described it on his show. Here's a transcript from his site:

RUSH: I have a great, great editorial cartoon here. I don't know who did this, but you've seen the painting of the Founding Fathers...
[...description of the cartoon in a few paragraphs follows...]
It's a great, great, great cartoon because this is how libs see America today. It's exactly how they see it.

A friend heard it on the radio, recognized the cartoon, and called the show. He wound up talking to Mr. Snerdley, who said that Rush would be expecting a call from us on his Open Line Friday show in a couple of days.

We called El Rushbo and later described our conversation in this post.

As I hung up the phone our server was already melting from the sudden surge in internet connections. For two days we couldn't see our own site because too many people wanted to be there at the same time.



In the spirit of capitalist greed and self-enrichment we made a T-shirt with the Founding Fathers cartoon and put it up for sale on this website. Quite a few people bought it.
 

Hoolay! Big prize make swollen glorious highness for people's republic of cube.
 

Bravo!!!! Comrade Red!!! More Vodka rations for you this month!!!

--
ZB
 

Good show. We need something like this from time to time--it makes the moonbats, who are now the MSM, easier to stomach.
 

What in wealth is the meaning of this--this--this so-called (shudder) competition?!!? You should be devastated, your self-esteem shattered, to be anything other than First! And you should feel guilty and ashamed for coming in ahead of Eleventh, Twelfth, etc.

(Pinkie off)

Well done, Comrade Leader. I say laughter is the true opiate of the masses. Thank you for getting (and keeping) us hooked.
 

I want that T-shirt.
 

Harumph! Harumph and Wazoo, I say! Well done.
 

I too think you should receive an award...



The Flying Fickled Finger of Fate award for the most Honest Journalism!
 

Wait a minute...I thought we were the Stalinst version of the Onion, not the Stalinist version of Laugh-in.

Quote:

"And now from our studios in beautiful downtown Novosibirsk, it's Lenin and Marx's Laugh-in!"


Nah. I wouldn't bet my sweet bippy on that one.
 

Although it would be cool to have a big plywood set of the Berlin Wall all covered with grafitti with various comrades of the Cube popping out to give one liners, Arte Johnson dressed up like Lavrenti Beria hiding behind a potted plant, and Commisarka Pinkie repeatedly bashing Tyrone Teetertotter over the head with her shovel to thwart his evil capitalist attempts at seduction....
 

Congrats!
 

Ivan Betinov

Although it would be cool to have a big plywood set of the Berlin Wall all covered with grafitti with various comrades of the Cube popping out to give one liners, Arte Johnson dressed up like Lavrenti Beria hiding behind a potted plant, and Commisarka Pinkie repeatedly bashing Tyrone Teetertotter over the head with her shovel to thwart his evil capitalist attempts at seduction....

Like this?



I pictured Pinkie more like this!


 

Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me!
 

Goldie really has held up well, hasn't she?
 

Here come the Judge....Here come the Judge....

--
 

YAY! I like the Judge!


 

Damn, Betty, I'd like to get your goat!
 

Premier Betty

YAY! I like the Judge!


Never has there been more dangerous symbol for imperialism, individuality, and consumer mentality than American muscle cars. GTO Judge is icon for this, although I prefer hate more 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS5.
There is only one car for The People, it is ZAPOROZHETS!

 

Now that's an ugly... I mean... umm... very progressive car for the people! And such a stunning color too!

Ivan Betinov

Damn, Betty, I'd like to get your goat!


NO! It's my goat and you can't have it! Steal your own goat from a prole or something!
 

Comrades, why yearn for the past when we have so much better on offer here in the People's
Republik of America! Behold the Honda Element

At your local Honda dealer now.

It is artistic too: the 60s Japanese version of a celluloid Art Deco breadbox.
 

Ivan Betinov

Wait a minute...I thought we were the Stalinst version of the Onion, not the Stalinist version of Laugh-in.

Quote:

"And now from our studios in beautiful downtown Novosibirsk, it's Lenin and Marx's Laugh-in!"


Nah. I wouldn't bet my sweet bippy on that one.

Uh....you mean Lennon and Marx?


. . . .

Interestink...but stooopit.
 

Commissar Theocritus

Comrades, why yearn for the past when we have so much better on offer here in the People's
Republik of America! Behold the Honda Element

At your local Honda dealer now.

It is artistic too: the 60s Japanese version of a celluloid Art Deco breadbox.

Sadly, Comrade Doctor Theocritus.... It is manufactured by non-union labor.

--
ZB
 

Dear Zampolit, I never use union labor myself. Too expensive. I learned that trick from Ralph Nader who, when he found that the workers in, I believe, Public Citizen, had decided to unionize, changed the locks and fired them.

For some things are, you see, just too important to be fettered by what are mere words when there's real gouging and kicking and nut-cutting to do.
 

Maksim Maksimovich

Premier Betty

YAY! I like the Judge!


Never has there been more dangerous symbol for imperialism, individuality, and consumer mentality than American muscle cars. GTO Judge is icon for this, although I prefer hate more 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS5.
There is only one car for The People, it is ZAPOROZHETS!


What did they use to get this color right, comrade? Borscht? or Tomato soup?
 

I know this brand, it's called "Pink Floyd." Although some refer to it as "Fruity Loops."
 

Anything that ugly MUST be politically correct (kind of like Code Pink). Come to think of it, that may be a Code Pink transport. Imagine the terror of the capitalist warmongers when the Code Pink Tactical Transport sputters to a halt roars up and Pinko after Pinko piles out to do battle with The Man. Why, I hear tell that some of them infiltrated the Barnum and Bailey Clown College to learn the secrets of clown car packing tactical transport lading so as to be as ecologically friendly as they are politically conscious.
 

But this is one case that big shoes mean nothing.
 

Comrades! Cars symbolize individuali$m and are therefore a crime against the People™. The only reason our Soviet comrades allowed the proletariat to "own" cars was to keep up appearances towards our useful idiots in the West. In a true socialist society, only the military, the KGB and important party members need cars.
 

Yes common people could not buy autos such as the Chaika, it was a very elite car in Soviet Russia.


 

Here's a slightly modernized Chaika from the late 1970 - early 1980s. We have it in the clip art section of the People's Poor Text Editor.



As for the Zaporozhets, it was a very cheap model from the 70s, and a joke even by the Soviet standards (a half-assed Soviet answer to the Volks "PeopleCar" Wagen). Ironically, the brand name is also a self-name for the legendary Zaporozhye Cossacks of Ukraine, who were disbanded by Russia's Many Titted Empress Catherine II (The Great) around 1775.

Speaking of which, can we call our MTE "Hillary The Great"?

Hillary The Great will disband the Republican party and then just out of spite she'll issue an edict to create the cheapest and the ugliest hybrid car in the world, and name it The GOP. All formerly registered GOP voters will be forced to drive it. It will demoralize them and consolidate her victory.



A good bumper sticker to this model would be "My second car is Chaika," except in Soviet Russia they didn't have bumper stickers. And if they had, they would fall off after a day of driving because they couldn't make glue that would stick, and using imported glue would make the sticker more expensive than the bumper.
 

Quote:

Russia's Many Titted Empress Catherine II


Oh, come now, Comrade Red Square....Kate the Great had only two tits (each with an Orlov brother firmly attached).
 

I always thought Catherine the Great chose this vehicle to ride (or was that just a legend)...

 

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I'm afraid it is a myth. It makes a great story and a number of professors I have known use it to titilate their classes, but Catherine did not die from injuries sustained while copulating with a horse.
<Back>

What is that, footage from the Chappaquidick Derby?
 

Red Square

Speaking of which, can we call our MTE "Hillary The Great"

It only makes sense. And when she ascends to power, she will threaten the proles with, "Apres moi, le deluge." And the thought of her retaining water is more than the proles can bear. Ask Bruno about the time that her many tits swelled up to Goodyear Blimp size. He bears the scars still.
 

By winning, we actually lost by disenfranchising candidates who placed lower.
 

I agree with Comrade Hasan.

Competition does not make us better than the rest (unless we win of course, then it is the People's will)... All we did was *sob* disenfranchise those poor toons who placed lower!!! What is worse, obviously non-union capitalist cartoons were victorious over the Cube's image!!!!!

So unless we tie for first (and preferably ONLY), then it must be evil competition!!

Now if we win over the others, then it is a mandate!!!! From the People no less!!! (even if a majority did not vote)

Since we did not win, I am sure the votes were counted by Diebold!!

If anyone questions this outside the Party inner circle, I am assured we can spin this in 80 other different ways.


That said, Great job Cube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

I propose that all cartoons should be equally considered equally humorous. We'll call it the Funniness Doctrine. All cartoons should get equal laugh time in other words consumers must spend an equal amount of time laughing at each said cartoon. Or they should no be allowed to laugh at any at all.
 

Hasan, this is a corollary to the idea that all ideas are to be taken equally. Adam Smith is, for example, no more intelligent than Sheila Jackson Lee when she asked NASA if they'd find the flag they left. On Mars.

Einstein is no more intelligent than Lysenko. Stalin is no worse than Mother Theresa.

It's all perspective, man, all perspective.
 

Comrade Hasan

I propose that all cartoons should be equally considered equally humorous. We'll call it the Funniness Doctrine. All cartoons should get equal laugh time in other words consumers must spend an equal amount of time laughing at each said cartoon. Or they should no be allowed to laugh at any at all.

I agree, comrade, and like the politburo clapping for hours, the first person to stop laughing gets SHOT!

Here's an educational video:


 

Ivan Betinov

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I'm afraid it is a myth. It makes a great story and a number of professors I have known use it to titilate their classes, but Catherine did not die from injuries sustained while copulating with a horse.
<Back>

Aww, that's too bad. Oh well, I never let the facts get in the way of a good story!

Ivan Betinov

What is that, footage from the Chappaquidick Derby?

No, that's the X-Rated version of "The Black Stallion" (with a brown stunt stallion for the water scene; it was a low budget production)