Archive for the ‘Tabloid Tactics’ Category
Filed under: Stars Just Like Us, Tabloid Tactics
Wow. It’s like we lead parallel lives.
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Filed under: Tabloid Comics, Tabloid Tactics
If tabloids changed their glossy full-color format into black and white cartoons complete with hand-drawn line art and conversation bubbles, they’d make entertaining comic books. No need to make up strange stories or create bizarre characters - it’s all right there in glorious full color. This particular comic comes straight from the cover of a recent tabloid staple: the twice yearly Best and Worst Celebrity Bodies feature. You’ve seen them in grocery stores - images of the rich and infamous splashed across the cover, cottage cheese thighs peaking from under skirts, flabby bits dangling from skimpy bikinis, plastic surgery nightmares exposed…and then one or two photos of a perfectly taut and tanned body (usually a 21 year old starlet). This is first of a series of reality comics based on tabloid “reporting” and you’ll see many more coming soon. Medium: Scrawls scanned out of sketchbook, digital color. View a select panel in more detail after the jump.
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Filed under: Headline of the Day, Tabloid Tactics
If standing in grocery lines has taught us anything, it’s that tabloids are hilarious — well that, and that little old ladies have no qualms about cutting in line. So we at Circus Hour (meaning me, 14, my cats and her dog) are starting a new regular column featuring our pick for the most entertaining tabloid headline of the day. And today’s winner is…
Congrats, Star magazine, for being our premier honoree! If you’re intrigued by Orlando Bloom’s unfortunate hygiene habits, be sure to read more here.
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Filed under: Tabloid Tactics
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I know gossip reporting is not typically rooted in kindness and compassion - and without tabloids and blogger gossip, I wouldn’t have much subject matter to inspire my illustrations and parodies here on GOTA. That being said, Holy Candy and I decided it was high time to collaborate on a Daily Mail parody. The UK’s second largest daily newspaper, the Daily Mail has increasingly turned their focus toward conjuring up fear and disgust over the natural process of ageing. Unfortunately, this …
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Filed under: Tabloid Tactics
I came across a metafilter post yesterday with helpful links on How To Draw a Female in Proportion. Included were links to divine proportion, idealized proportion, and the most interesting, historic proportion. The above image came from Adolphe Armand Braun’s Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing, published in 1916. If this woman was a celebrity, she’d run the high risk of being called fat by today’s media-influenced standards. Curvy hips are a big no no….and A-cups? …
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Filed under: Britney Spears, Tabloid Tactics
Earlier this week, TMZ reported Britney Spears had inquired about becoming a bartender at the Viceroy hotel. Tipped off by an anonymous source, TMZ was told Britney’s application was being held in the hotel’s human resources department. A day later, Extra TV moves in for the kill and claims TMZ’s Bartendin’ Britney story is bogus. With arched back and bristling fur, TMZ swats back at Extra by publicly scolding them for breaking “reporting rules” and stealing the word “Shoptart”. …
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Filed under: Tabloid Tactics
I’ve always enjoyed creating comic strips. In fact, one of the reasons I started this blog was to find humor in our culture’s obsessive worship of the cult of celebrity. Most of the time celebrity gossip can be amusing, but lately some of it has become downright cruel. I’ve been working on a comic book over the past few weeks and decided to take a break from it to create a few tragics based on some of the more unscrupulous stories that caught my eye.
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