I Drew This


 * **Original review author:** || Long Tom ||
 * **Webcomic name:** || I Drew This ||
 * **Author:** || D. C. Simpson ||
 * **Start Date** || January 30, 2004 ||
 * **End Date** || December 16, 2007 ||
 * **Genre** || Political ||
 * **Defining Flaw** || Too full of strawmen and too empty of wit. ||

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 * Art: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png Okay by political cartoon standards. ||
 * Storyline: || Not applicable, as it is a series of gags. ||
 * Characters: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png The only actual characters are D. C. Simpson himself (he was a "himself" then) and Joe the Liberal Eagle, but they are little more than mouthpieces. ||
 * Miscellaneous Details: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png At least the people caricatured are recognizable. ||
 * Overall: || image http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/bww-seal%281%29.png Arguably the unfunniest political comic I ever have seen. ||

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++ Background

After having seen both the wonderful //Ozy and Millie// and the execrable //Raine Dog//, it was natural curiousity to know how this other creation of D. C. Simpson's was. //I Drew This// may not be //Raine Dog// hideous, but is still shockingly lame.

div style="width: 175px; border: solid 1px image http://i.imgur.com/FwQnl.jpg width="175" ^^The first (and probably last) volume of collected strips from this comic^^ /div

++ Downfall

This comic always sucked.

++ Story and Plot

Not applicable, as it is a gag strip.

++ Art review

Line drawings with some shading, recognizable caricatures of the various people depicted.

++ Writing review

Basically D. C. Simpson's message in this webcomic is, "If you're a liberal, you're kindly, intelligent, reasonable, but if you're conservative, you're nasty, racist, stupid, hypocritical, and don't let us give our opinions!" (Never mind that this is quite the opposite of my own experiences in the political discussion arena.) Nothing more than indulgent self-congratulation, though that arguably applies to most political webcomics.

++ Author biography

D. C. Simpson is best known as the author of the well-regarded furry webcomic //Ozy and Millie//, which has received much acclaim and numerous awards. Unfortunately Simpson's talents seem to have deserted her lately. The liberal Simpson, an MTF transsexual who recently had her sex-change operation completed a few years ago, seems to have had her wit and wonderful sense of humor removed in her operation, with her later work consisting of heavy handed and ultimately impenetrable political allegories like //Raine Dog//, although humorless, pretentious political comics such as //I Drew This// prove that even in her //Ozy and Millie// days she had a penchant for being overblown and unfunny. She did finally receive syndication for a new strip of hers, with the working title of //Girl//, but unfortunately she simply recycles her old //Ozy and Millie// strips for that one. Fortunately the new strip that has appeared in newspapers, //Heavenly Nostrils//, about a little girl and a unicorn she adopted, does take its own path, so there is hope for her yet.

++ Conclusion

If your idea of humor is ultra-cheap and libelous attacks on conservatives, this is the webcomic for you. Anyone else will find their intelligence insulted.