BAD ILLUSTRATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN…
07.21.08
Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart is looking to the power of sequential art to help him achieve reelection and sway voters. His 16-page “comic book” was mailed to his potential voters, and makes his case loud and clear. While I’m normally happy to see comics being used as a respected form of visual communication, this is not what I had in mind.
The book is the most offensive thing I’ve seen in some time. It portrays the devil supporting his political opponents, exposes homosexuals as toga-clad boyscout rapists, contains numerous grammatical errors and appears to have been drawn by a small child. Which begs the question, what the hell is wrong with Oklahoma when something like this gains votes?
I find it incredibly ironic that the “pro-family” conservative movement that once demonized comic books as a major source of moral decay are now using the medium to promote an agenda of misinformation and hate (see the origins of the Comics Code Authority). I’ve seen a few examples of this over the years, ranging from an anti-homosexual superhero to a children’s book that debunked the “myth” of dinosaurs. This kind of shameless propaganda is far more offensive and damaging to our social fabric than any 50’s pulp book ever was!
Congratulations Rinehart, you are the douche bag of the month. I wonder why you can’t even find a high school level illustrator to help perpetuate your infantile world view. Oklahoma get your shit together, this is strike two this year.
Download the whole book HERE via newsOK.com
Tags: Brent Rinehart, illustration, political art
Category: Art
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