From the perspective of an ocean creature, Mike Keefe criticizes the dilemma of the 2010 BP oil spill in his burlesque cartoon, which portrays a temperamental fish covered in black oil above the words, "Don't Spread on Me." The look of the cartoon closely resembles the historical Gadsden flag, which was designed to represent protectiveness of American rights in colonial times; Keefe's use of a snakelike fish, a caricature of the fictional Angry Sea Party, suggests that the aquatic residents of the Gulf of Mexico felt threatened by the BP accident.
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Today's society is more preoccupied with people's private lives than the traits that make them important to the nation. Groups who come under fire the most are celebrities, sports icons, and members of the military. Mike Keefe illustrates this ignorant obsession over unimportant details with a drawing of a man and woman admiring a soldiers' memorial, commenting on the probability of homosexuality within the memorialized group. The cartoon suggests that what the pair should be focusing on is the heroes' valiant service, not the people they choose to kiss.
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Three years later, there is a widespread belief among Americans that the war in Iraq was nothing more than a long-winded, fatal, rather fruitless money trap. For the most part, violence continues to rage on in the Middle East, with or without our soldiers' interference. Mike Keefe draws upon this in his cartoon, which portrays a clunky American aircraft blissfully departing from an Iraqi village in which terrorism continues to blossom, symbolized by an armed man emerging from a shadowy stronghold; a patriotic banner extending from the rear of the plane reads "Not Sure What Was Accomplished", signifying that not even America can pinpoint the war's impact on terror.
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