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When a Comic Book Facebook Group Gets Political The Day Before a General Election
The Conservative Party has had to throw their usual fiscal conservatism to the dogs, and up public spending across the board paid for increased borrowing, But that's nothing to the opposing Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party who are upping public spending, borrowing, nationalisation and taxation weighted on the richest 5%, those who earn over[...]
British General Election Gets a Batman/Joker Video Asking if Batman Is The Bad Guy?
Momentum is a British political organisation, founded in 2015 as a grassroots movement supportive of current Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party he leads Since January 2017, all Momentum members must also be or become members of the Labour Party and the organisation has 40,000 members in 2019 And with the[...]
“The Jungle”: Kristin Gehrmann’s Visceral Graphic Novel Adaptation of an Important American Novel
The more important part of the book was its depiction of labour relations and advocacy for unionization and protection of workers. The cover of "The Jungle" From Novel to Comic The new graphic novel adaptation by German artist Kristina Gehrmann is a thick, ambitious, visceral interpretation of Sinclair's novel Gehrmann uses greyscale art and collages of newspaper advertisements[...]
People Wake Up To… The British General Election
Except with the latest polls giving Labour and Conservative parties 34.1% each and the vote not concentrated enough thanks to the efforts of the Scottish National Party and UKIP, we are going to have a no overall party in majority, and parties forced to do dealings with parties they have previously stated they will have[...]
Ed Miliband As Charles Atlas, Hero Of Brighton Beach
Steve Bell uses the classic Charles Atlas comic strip ad to portray Labour Party leader and Leader Of The Opposition, Ed Miliband, at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton for the Guardian newspaper As he says in the video below, "Apologies to Charles Atlas… and the unnamed person who drew the strip!" Unnamed indeed… [...]
Hasbro Hit By Sweatshop Allegations Over Bumblebee And Other Transformers
UPDATE: Hasbro has now responded to the allegations below. The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights has condemned Hasbro for working conditions in its toy factories in a forty page report, specifically mentioning the Transformer Bumblebee, just in time for Christmas. Many small children – and quite a few big children too – will be waking[...]
Scottish Politicians Fight Over Comic Book Course
Tom Harris, Labour member of Parliament, we thought we knew you Popular geeky online politician, blogger, tweeter, before it was fashionable for a politician to do such a thing, and you've never sent a yfrog of your penis to anyone Your Twitter background is that of a TARDIS for goodness sake and you are a[...]
The Human Millipede
The Labour Party leadership contest is currently underway in the UK But Dodgem Logic contributor David Quantick has written a drama, Miliband Of Brothers, based on the rivalry of the two favourites, Ed Miliband and David Miliband, siblings standing for the position It will broadcast on September the 24th the night before the election result. Real-life[...]