pot heads
Jan
28
2019
Arend van Dam's 2019 cartoon captures the Venezuela crisis with a sinking ship named Venezuela, a man in a sash shouting 'I am your captain' from the top, while figures cling to the tilting deck and others flail in the water. The image uses the tags Venezuela, Maduro, dictator, interim president, Juan Guaidó, national assembly to highlight the political turmoil. The ship's bow points upward, with a periscope-like structure in flag colors, emphasizing the obvious metaphor of a nation going under. People on the deck hold on desperately, and swimmers raise arms, all drawn in simple lines against a blue sky and green sea. This straightforward satire avoids subtlety, making the leadership failure clear without added context.
Aug
11
2017
The image from August 2017 shows Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un with mushroom cloud heads rising from their shoulders. Trump appears on the left with a yellow cloud and Kim on the right with a gray cloud. The two figures stand close together on a simple ground line. This visual responds to the escalating nuclear rhetoric between the United States and North Korea that summer. North Korea conducted multiple missile tests in July and August while Trump warned of fire and fury. The image captures the direct confrontation over atomic weapons development.
Jun
21
2017
