If you’re in or near Los Angeles and a fan of Stan Kelly‘s scathing meta-satirical “right-wing” editorial cartoons from The Onion, you can see his original artwork displayed at the American Punchline exhibit at Subliminal Projects.
Cartoonist Ward Sutton claims to be only Kelly’s assistant, but I have it on good authority that he does much more than that. There are rumors that Kelly himself is a fictional character created by Sutton to satirize not only right-wing, MAGA opinions, but to satirize the way a right-wing, MAGA cartoonist would satirically express them.
Ruben Bolling reports for Boing Boing on the American Punchline exhibit running 09/28/2024 – 11/09/2024
In addition to Stan Kelly and Ward Sutton the exhibit includes artists and illustrators and cartoonists Ade Ogunmowo (Polo Cutty), Elyse Pignolet, Guerrilla Girls, Isabelle Brourman, Kelly Breez, Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot), Robbie Conal, Shepard Fairey, and Winston Tseng.
feature image by Stan Kelly and Ward Sutton