the shovels and baseball bat are interesting touches
The pig is capitalism withering
this is kinda how I was reading it
capitalists trapped in their own :brainworms: gilded cage of ideology
aka
don’t our farts smell so sweet!
still thinking about the portrait, maybe a play off the cliche of the ‘dear leader’ portrait in the home
so :amerikkka: worships the leadership of the capitalists while also trapping them via their own propaganda about “there is no alternative” etc
I don’t get the impression the artist is an anti-capitalist in any sense. From their other work, this would just be a cartoon of a sad/backstabbing meeting of the bears if the guy happened to have been born Stateside or brought there as a kid or something. Good artist though, can’t knock their style and this one is a banger.
Dying to know what the pig means, why is there a photo on the wall that is just a close up of the pig frowning.
I love the old timey art style, I feel like most political cartoons have a samey aesthetic (aside from Eli Valley).
I’m fucking framing this
