RIP Joel Barbee

Nutty political cartoonist Joel Barbee has died. Our condolences to his family and friends. Politisink celebrates the life of a prolific birther cartoonist by showing some of his best work. At some point I was planning to do some retrospectives of various right wing crazy cartoonists, but Barbee has managed to get himself mentioned first!

Bada Bingslam
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Attack of the Muppets
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Welcome to Birthertown!
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Spanish involves using lots of dashes
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Uh…
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As we all are
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Oh, noes!
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I have no idea
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So, how about those Mets?
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Totally not racist
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Barack sure is crappy for a secret communist slave
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This is normally what happens when you read Barbee
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MAAAUUUGGGHHHH
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Wow, Barbee, that guy is scary…
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Barbee seemed to forget to finish his thought on this one
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Just wait until GameraJackson Jr arrives!
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Things have names?
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It’s Infinity Crotch Frankenstein! Run!
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The Circle of Dumbass Birthers
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Where’s your Birth Certificate, Barbee?
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Oh, okay
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It’s like that metaphor or something
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La Raza is the Boogeyman of the Right Wing. Okay, the have 9000 Boogeymen.
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Totally not racist!
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Ummmm
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Barbee is tasteful again
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Totally not racist!
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Largest leather country?
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Now we know what killed Barbee…
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Waaahhh!! They wouldn’t let a racist guy buy a team!
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Sooo many bad things I could say about this
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Oops!
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2 comments

  1. And I thought political cartoons were hard to understand before. I guess these are more like New Yorker cartoons in that the more obscure the joke is, the less sense it makes, the “better” is it.

  2. I think the theory was Barbee was going more and more insane and his comics were getting more and more weird. He was given props for not stooping to the old “Pop culture thing with Us/Them labels” many of the current artists do.

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