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First contest entry | Mar 29th 2006
Katja sent in the first entry in the North Korean cartoon contest. This fantastic drawing depicts the "Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade" mentioned in several KCNA articles.
Take a moment and appreciate the details. First, the eye is drawn to the very realistic portrait of Kim Jong Il carried by the leader of the brigade. Note the towering pompadour and oversized glasses that are the Dear Leader's trademarks. Moving on to the shock brigade members, you can see why they are called the speed shock brigade. These guys are dressed for a running down capitalists. They have hot pants/athletic shorts, sweatbands and even running shoes with little communist stars on them! Amazing. And without those jumper cables, bristling with voltage, they would be just the speed campaign youth brigade. They have so much sheer energy they actually leave a trail of lightning bolts. They are keeping their motivation from flagging by shouting patriotic slogans in the inimitable style of KCNA news releases. And in case their spirits should begin to flag,a commissar following behind wields a fearsome "well-shaped cucumber." All in all, I think this is exactly what the real Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade looks like. Katja takes an early lead!
5 Comments »
I think your comments are funnier than the actual drawing. I’m glad you like it.
Comment by Katja — March 29, 2006 @ 11:48 pm
Hahaha, I like their communistic converses
Comment by Rob — April 2, 2006 @ 7:03 pm
Thanks! I’m particulary fond of my likeness of Kim Jong Il. Notice how the frame can barely contain his massive pompadour. I was going to have it come out of the frame, but I felt that would be overdoing it.
I found out what the Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade really does. It turns out they work construction. Who’d of thunk?
Comment by Katja — April 3, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
They “undertake difficult and laborious projects for the socialist economic construction.” I think one article said they built a duck farm. Just imagine what we lazy Americans could get done if we enslaved our children like North Korea does. We could cover the whole country with duck farms! But noo, we send them to waste time learning how to read and write in school. They’ll only use those skills to download porn. Meanwhile, we face a massive duck shortage. Thanks a lot, capitalism.
Comment by sonobovich — April 3, 2006 @ 7:58 pm
North Korea needs all the ducks they can get. The last I heard they didn’t have too much in the way of food. There seems to be no shortage of floral baskets, though.
Comment by Katja — April 3, 2006 @ 11:55 pm