Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Holidays from For-uhm Boredz!

For those of you celebrating the holiday today, we bid you a happy holiday from the For-uhm Boredz crew. We send you on your way with this public service announcement, addressed to those who commented on the purpose of our blog recently....

We, the crew at For-uhm Boredz, enjoy making our cartoons to ridicule things which we believe are sad and pathetic. If you feel you are being personally targeted by our cartoons, you are probably reading way too much into it, and should examine yourselves first, before pointing fingers.

That being said, here is the definition of Satire, which you can find on Wikipedia.... Happy Holidays.

"Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1]Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.

Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, and media such as lyrics."


For-uhm Boredz Crew