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Emboldened by the lack of flamage at the mere mention of Osama bin Laden, the metacartoonist begins the onerous task of making him
the butt of humor. Far from simply jumping on the bandwagon of public opinion, the metacartoonist strives to put bin Laden into his
proper iconic slot in the American psyche -- not as murderer of thousands, but as vaguely ridiculous posturing fascist, much as Charlie
Chaplin in The Great Dictator.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="800" width="800" rowformat="1-2-2-2-2"> <panel> <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/> <character name="osama"/> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">And with me today on A TALK WITH LENIN, brought to you by the crunchy goodness of Pickle Crisp breakfast cereal, whose motto is 'Start your day off right with a healthy pickle, or we'll liquidate you!' -- Osama bin Laden! Osama? We're happy to have you here with us today.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right">Thank you, Godless promulgator of atheist Russia, I am also happy to be here so that I may spit upon your lifeless corpse,</caption> <caption location="bottom right">may it please Allah the most merciful.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Many in the world press are now calling you an Islamic fascist. How do you respond to this?</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="osama" aspect="hypno"/> <caption location="top right">We simply want to create a state in which the will of Allah is done and wrongs against Allah are punished.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">What are you doing with your eyes?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right">I am helping you to see the righteousness of our cause.</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="osama" aspect="normal"/> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">It's not working.</caption> <caption location="top right">Damn.</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
