Vulgar Army – Page 16 – Representation of the octopus in propaganda and political cartoons

This is a fairly standard take on octoprop by the UK Independent Party (UKIP) for the 2005 General Elections in the UK. The UKIP is a right-wing party, and was originally a single issue party. That issue was UK independence from the EU. Hence the following ad. In summary: monologue at the start in the […]

School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) have a poster featuring ‘the people’ cutting of the limbs of a skulltopus (Illustration by Haik Hoisington, 2006). The text roughly translates as: “The School Closure Of Murderers! Never More! Enough already!” (Google Translate, Accessed: 29th Nov 2008). To give this image context SOAW decribe themselves on their homepage (http://www.soaw.org) as: “SOA […]

I have a problem with generic by-numbers-octopus-propaganda and political cartoons: Not that I object to octopuses being used in propaganda/political cartoons. There have been some very imaginitive ones such as: L. D. Bradley, “Before the Trojan Horse is admitted, The Puzzled Citizen will have to be shown a little more fully, . .”Chicago Daily News, […]