I’m getting in on the cartoon contest action. Here’s the challenge: Take any phrase from the North Korean Central News Agency and illustrate it. Send it to me at sonobovich@yahoo.com, and I will then post it here if it is not the goatse picture. This will be good even if you are a totally sucky artist. Use any medium whatsoever, including and especially MS Paint. Here are some ideas:
”Repressive Machines”
“Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade”
“Cannibals in Human Skin” (Their pet name for U.S. troops)
The video game “Splinter Shell 3″ (They obviously mean “splinter cell 3” This would be a good one to photoshop)
“well-shaped cucumber”
“Lurking behind this despicable conspiracy and collusion of traitors, human scums and remnants of history is a dark tentacle of the United States”
If you need more ideas, go to the Database of North Korean Propaganda. They have a searchable database of KCNA, and some fun search suggestions.
The winner gets a well-shaped cucumber, a floral basket and the gregorian calender will be reset based on your birthday. Send in your entries by March 30.
The temptation is there, but I feel that whatever I enter is going to be of inferior quality to something of, let’s say, Rob’s. However, drawing a “well-shaped cucumber” sounds simplistic enough.
Comment by Katja — March 1, 2006 @ 1:26 pm
Could you use the word callipygian in reference to a cucumber rather than a buttocks? Probably not. I think it would actually have to be callyagkouri, meaning ‘finely shaped cucumber.’
Comment by Rob — March 1, 2006 @ 9:58 pm
I think callipygian only refers to buttocks, but perhaps you could somehow you could tie that into a drawing of repressive machines (sexy machines!) or cannibals in human skin (sexy cannibals!) It might just earn you extra points, since that’s what we’re all about these days.
Comment by Katja — March 2, 2006 @ 2:12 pm