August 1st, 2018 Barry Posted in Barry's favorites, Media criticism | No Comments »

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Transcript

This cartoon has four panels, plus a small “kicker” panel beneath the bottom of the cartoon.

PANEL 1

An older man wearing glasses, sitting behind a desk, is talking to an intense man with a large black beard and wearing a suit jacket but no tie. We’ll call him “Blackbeard.”

GLASSES: We’re dropping your column. Many readers think you’re just too extreme.

BLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!

PANEL 2

Blackbeard is standing on stage behind a lectern, holding a hand high in the air as he declames. There’s a huge audience listening to him.

BLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!

PANEL 3

A newspaper lies on a table, near a coffee mug and a spoon. The newspaper is The Washington Post. A front page story shows a photo of Blackbeard talking, and a headline that says “I Have Been Silenced!”

PANEL 4

We are looking at a flatscreen TV. The TV shows Blackbeard appearing on Fox News. Blackbeard is yelling. An off-camera interviewer speaks.

INTERVIEWER: …here with his new book, “I have been silenced.”

BLACKBEARD: I have been silenced!

KICKER PANEL BELOW BOTTOM OF STRIP

Barry the cartoonist is talking to Blackbeard.

BARRY: It seems–

BLACKBEARD: STOP SILENCING ME!