The de facto chief cartoonist for alt-Twitter
I hadn’t heard of the cartoonist Ben Garrison until I was looking for something else a couple of hours ago and saw this masterpiece:
#InTrumpsAmerica The #FirstLady will be Great Again! #Trump2016 https://t.co/2FGmMQ1bBo pic.twitter.com/g2SOBjFXSI
— Real Ben Garrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) May 13, 2016
ThinkProgress wrote about him last month:
Spend any time on some of the internet’s more devoted pro-Trump sites and you’ll likely come across one of Ben Garrison’s cartoons. Instead of using his artwork to mock the president, he frequently depicts Trump as a young, muscular, all-American hero, standing up to the Deep State swamp monster or slaying the dragon of Political Correctness…
Since 2015, Garrison has been the de facto chief cartoonist for right-wing communities online. His work regularly features at the top of the popular sub-reddit, r/The_Donald, and has been shared by Mike Cernovich and Julian Assange. Garrison now has nearly 100,000 followers on Twitter. He is also no stranger to controversy. In 2016 he was accused of racism for drawing a cartoon that featured a pageant-ready Melania Trump next to a butch, unhappy-looking Michelle Obama.
Well accusing him of racism is just political correctness run mad, mk?
There’s more of his work on his Facebook wall:
When did Trump ever observe a moment of silence? When did he ever look like that? But more to the point, which is more useful, a moment of silence, or trying to prevent mass shootings? Why are we supposed to think an empty pious gesture is a sacred good thing while actually trying to do something about the killings is rude and noisy and something only a horrible old witch would do?
That’s not the Carmen Yulin Cruz we all saw last week.
On the other hand, the guy also posts nice photos of Montana landscapes on his wall.
Did you scroll down as far as this one?
Ew. No.
He says it was done on order for Cernovich and makes a big deal in the comments about it not being anti-Semitic, but come on, Soros, Rothschilds, Illuminati – it doesn’t get much more anti-Semitic. And this is the guy who keeps on giving us a serious, sober, clean-cut Trump. One has to be pretty dense not to know where the battle lines are drawn for this guy.
From his website:
“I began drawing pro Trump cartoons and when the lefties were infuriated that I showed him as a muscular alpha male, it made me happy.”
He lost his gallery representation for promoting his pro Nazi art work, according to one of his videos. Predictably, he sees himself as the victim of political correctness.
That drawing of Michelle Obama is more than just “butch,” if I’m not mistaken. That weird bit of shading in the crotch sure seems to be a suggestion of a penis.
Oo, I love how subtly he managed to get his point across.
When did we have a cocktail waitress as First Lady?
Screechy Monkey @5
Garrison is a proponent of the far-alt-right theory that Michelle Obama is trans.
Apparently Sasha and Malia are false flags or something.