They have yet to fail to turn my stomach. Who is the artist and what is that special gift that he/she posesses that never fails to turn my stomach. The pictures depict the subject (regardless of what it is) in the most jeuvenile, retarded, gross and unimaginitive way. To whom must one appeal to make it stop? These weekly attrocities detract tremendously from what is an otherwise wonderful site.
For sure, Rembrant it ain’t.
Some twenty years or so ago, I stumbled across The Straight Dope, C. A.'s first book. A few years later, I’d lost it. But I seem to recall that the illustrations were pretty much by the same hand as today’s.
I could be wrong, of course - it’s been a long time. But if I’m not, then I say let’s keep the winning streak going. It’s always refreshing to see a picture that really is worth 1000 words.
WARNING:
These posters are due for a serious smiting. Stay far away, and be very afraid. No one slights the mighty Slug Signorino and lives to wallow in impertinence.
The artist is Slug Signorino and we love him. Given that he takes the piss out of Cecil it is clear that no-one can stop him. IMHO his illustrations are an essential part of The Straight Dope, and if you don’t like it, you can suck strangely-shaped smoke-shrouded appendages.
picmr
::running like hell in attempt to be out of blast radius::
Damn…I knew I shouldn’t have opened this one up…
Slug?! LOL! I could not have thought of a better nom de plume nor a better description of this particular pencil totting vandal.
I like Slug’s work. I have liked it since my first Cecil column (not in 1973, but it feels like that long ago).
You don’t. I’m glad you’re so mature and discriminating.
So, no problems, right? You have your opinion, I’ll have mine.
But if you want to denigrate someone whose cartoons many here enjoy and respect, be prepared to get flamed. Unless you enjoy walking into someone’s house and telling them how ugly their furniture is . . .
And you think this is an insult?
"One . . . two . . . three . . "
“Whatcha doin’?”
“Oh, I’m totting up pencils. Four . . .five . . .”
Sorry and thanks for the spell check. That’s pencil toting vandal.
… and no I don’t think it’s an insult. It’s a critique - an admitedly subjective one at that. Notice my OP is generously seeded with references on what effect the alleged art has on me. I never suggested it has to have that same effect on everyone else. I put this in the Pit because it is kind of a rant. Still, it’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
If you favour depictions of predictably large assed subjects with banana shaped breasts and what looks like feces covered extremetes then feel free to disagree.
The again - fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
:wally:
Roger wilco.
I also favor frank analyses of the caloric content of human semen (and why some trees seem to smell of it), the amount of bilirubin found in the average load, and whether or not people can have orgasms without physical contact.
Or does it make a difference somehow that those are words, rather than pictures? :rolleyes:
Pictures, like words, can be made to involve, inform and amuse the observer or they can serve to disinterest and even revolt same - it largely depends on the artist’s talents.
Of course there is no accounting for taste…
Obviously.
and say that I, too, think most of the pictures are pretty disturbing - IMO. I just don’t look at them, just like I don’t open threads titled “My Butthole Itches”, and so forth.
I, for one, refuse to fuck either you or my “horse” . . . it prefers to fuck people it ain’t attached to, anyway.
QS, as you’re a guy (I think), my horse refuses to fuck or be fucked by you.
Truly,
Can a horse
feel remorse
over bad intercourse?
I’m not sure, but of course
You can’t talk to a horse…
Can you punha?
Well, I wish I hadn’t looked at the legendary stretched open anus. Please tell me that wasn’t in the same thread…
The man in the illustration sports D-cup sized breasts, while the woman has two erect penises on her chest. Seems like a pretty conventional Slug drawing to me. [http://www.straightdope.com/art/2000/000825.gif]
Did anyone else notice that in last week’s drawing, Cecil’s body is shaped like a prism? [http://www.straightdope.com/art/2000/000818.gif]
I don’t think the charicatures are disgusting. I think the drawings reflect the featured article and tend to be on the harsh side but what the hey.
Anyone who can take on Cecil is a demi-god, minimum. Dude, you might wish to start the serious ass-kissing right this minute.