#NoParody ⁽⁷⁴⁾

Parody is not dead but it sure is having a rough year. When a straight-up retelling of actual events reads like over-the-top political satire, what is a parodist to do? Example: Is that from the imagination of a cartoonist looking to lampoon? Or the field…

I have pointed this out with cartoons such as Tom Tomorrow. When you report plain facts and it reads the same as absurd satire, you have challenges as a parodist or satirist that you did not anticipate when you entered the trade. If you think…

Tom Tomorrow is one of those cartoonists who struggle mightily to parody Trump. It just never works very well. It's not TT's fault, however: Trump's straight-on reality reads like such an over-the-top parody that actual parody could never have credibility enough to be readable. This…

Trump's proposed choices for cabinet are so ludicrous you have to think they're parody. Intentional, maybe? Jerry Falwell Jr., a science denying, young-earth creationist, for Education? Jeff Sessions, whose only issue with the KKK is their pot-smoking, for AG? Ben Carson, arguably the world's stupidest…

Tom Tomorrow tweeted on Friday, https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/794505864103292929 I could have told him this at least a year ago, as I have been saying since Trump started showing up on news sources that are not E! and TMZ. When parody cartoons accomplish their mission and land their jokes…