The character “Kelly” isn’t explicitly right wing, instead he’s supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than “Pro-choice” or “Pro-life” Kelly is “Pro-abortion”, because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization… because police dramas wouldn’t have anything write about.
Oddly, Kelly’s “wrong as possible” stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.
My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.
Kelly comics are intentional satire of the political comic style and topics.
Wait. So they’re not some right wing pundit?
It’s more like the Colbert Report back in the day, an exaggerated right winger who is so obviously wrong it’s funny.
The character “Kelly” isn’t explicitly right wing, instead he’s supposed to be as wrong as possible. As an example rather than “Pro-choice” or “Pro-life” Kelly is “Pro-abortion”, because he hates children and thinks they should be aborted before they have a chance to destroy their parents lives. Or the comic where Kelly opposed drug legalization… because police dramas wouldn’t have anything write about.
Oddly, Kelly’s “wrong as possible” stance does seem to frequently align with right wing politics, for some reason.
Thank you. I was always confused why it was on the onion. I figured there was some weird contract or something lol.
I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.
My favorites are the ones where he’s dedicating a whole comic to some petty personal grievance, like a grocery store being out of a product he had a coupon for.
Huh. TIL
They’re really good, consistently.
I’m not sure if there’s a better archive, but you can find a few more here:
https://theonion.com/the-handmaids-pigtail/
https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/
This is a better link.
That one’s clearer in its satire
Are you thinking of Ben Garrison? They’re parodying his style.
I believe I am. I guess I ate the onion
Thank you.
They’re really fucking good at it, then.
Kelly is one of the best parody comic creators in the business. I believe he works for The Onion?
Yeah it’s the Onion
Thank you! Good stuff.
The “Stan Kelly” persona itself is a fictional satire. The work is actually done by cartoonist Ward Sutton, whose standard political cartoons under his own name criticize the right wing directly.
Hell yeah Ward. I didn’t know that, thank you!
His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.