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Toonbots archive: episode published 19 July, 2003

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The metacartoonist qua metapolitical cartoonist: studies in early XXIst-century political iconics and parallels with mid-XXth century cautionary speculative fiction: news or parody?

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="700" width="700" rowformat="1-2-2-2-2-2">
<panel>
  <caption location="middle" size="8">Warning: the following cartoon contains political opinion.<br/>
The persons and events depicted herein are fictional and any resemblance to political figures
living or dead<br/>or difficult to categorize (God rest Strom Thurmond's soul) is completely and utterly accidental.<br/>
Criticism of government void where prohibited.<br/>This message included for
compliance with Homeland Security and the Ministry of Truth.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dubya" aspect="darngood"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dubya.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dubya sweat.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="cheney"/>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dick.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top middle">See Dick smirk.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top right">Doing a little moonlighting, George?</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top left">I cannot tell a lie, Uncle Dick.
I really did think Iraq was buying nukeyaler material in Niger.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top left">*snort*</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right">pfff</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption location="top left">BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!</caption>
  <caption location="bottom right">MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>