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Monday, 9 February 2009

A cartoon about the bushfires…

by Firstdog

Crikey is keen to do its bit to help the Victorian bushfire relief effort.
Later today you’ll be able to buy signed prints of today’s First Dog On The Moon cartoon from the Crikey shop.
The proceeds will be split between the Red Cross and Wildlife Victoria bushfire appeals.
We’ll send a separate email later today when the Crikey shop is in action, or check our homepage.

       

9 Comments

  1. spammy
    Posted Monday, 9 February 2009 at 9:39 pm | Permalink

    Dominique, rethink the car part , it’s sincere

  2. paddy
    Posted Monday, 9 February 2009 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

    Beautifully done FD.
    You’ve got it just right.
    10/10

  3. echeers
    Posted Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

    Such poor taste! People perished in those cars. Sickening! Disturbing!

  4. Dominique
    Posted Monday, 9 February 2009 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    I don’t know whether you were trying to be funny or provide a community service with the First Dog cartoon today, but it is tasteless. I had convinced myself that it was a community service message, and almost thought it was ok until I saw the photo of the incinerated cars. People may have died in those cars. I don’t think the Herald Sun would even stoop to that level.

  5. Venise Alstergren
    Posted Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    Not to be faulted FD. Excellent!

    echeers
    Certainly it is sickening. What is even more so is permission given by the state government to extend the outer limits of Melbourne. For a city of four million people to take up as much land as they want is grotesque. This same area is accommodates the entire area of Greater Buenos Aires (approx.14 million). Mexico City (21 million). No wonder so many people have died. Blame state government and John Brumby.

  6. John Gleeson
    Posted Monday, 9 February 2009 at 4:47 pm | Permalink

    I think use of the photo of the cars in your cartoon is in extremely poor taste. Given a number of people died in that accident - and horrible deaths at that I think you could have left it out.

  7. Venise Alstergren
    Posted Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    Aren’t we all delicate? Why do you think FD put that shot in? This is one bloody time FD shouldn’t play for a laugh. Nor did he. How many letters of complaint have friends or relatives who have died over the past few days? None?
    Then let your disgust be directed at the GUILTY party. Our State Government, that’s who. Try to feel nauseated by the true evil. Not a reflected evil.

  8. JBu
    Posted Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    Profoundly insensitive use of a picture where people most probably died. This is a cartoon - people read it expecting to laugh…not retch.

  9. Ev
    Posted Monday, 9 February 2009 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    Thanks FD. Like economic stimulus bushfires should be treated with the “go hard, go early” regime.