Sunday, August 13, 2017

13 August 2017




Today's guest paper, for the second time this year, is the Ventura County Star! Welcome back, VC Star! Always a pleasure to have you on the drawing table.

So it appears that the local papers will not shy away from national stories when they are as dire as the shit that went down in Charlottesville. In that respect the VC Star A1 and the LA Times A1 (yes, I still read the La Times A1 as well, because I've become some weird fucking newspaper nerd, if that's even a thing) were very similar (and that gut punch of a photo by Ryan M. Kelly was featured in both stories, because it sums up the horror pretty completely). The VC Star, however, still has a local audience to serve, and so orbiting the Charlottesville story was some regional news, including a photo of a steer wrestling event at the Ventura County Fair Rodeo. And yes, the two images of human bodies being thrust airborne by forces they could not contain sort of came together for the drawing, but let's be clear: only one of these events qualifies as evil visited upon our nation, and it ain't the cowboys.

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