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[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're really fucking good at it, then.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?

[–] booly 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "Stan Kelly" persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!

[–] ruckblack 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Thank you! Good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait. So they're not some right wing pundit?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The character "Kelly" isn't explicitly right wing, instead he's supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than "Pro-choice" or "Pro-life" Kelly is "Pro-abortion", because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization... because police dramas wouldn't have anything write about.

Oddly, Kelly's "wrong as possible" stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It does make sense. The artist is too good though, apparently I've been eating onions for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They're really good, consistently.

I'm not sure if there's a better archive, but you can find a few more here:

https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That one's clearer in its satire

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They're parodying his style.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion