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[Fanart] Various Joke Doodles
Title: assorted sketches
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Sealand, Belarus, Russia, Canada, Iceland, America, Turkey, France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, England, Japan, China, Korea, George Frederick Handel, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Latvia
Rating: PG
Warnings: rough sketches, some work without references, one instance of language warning
Summary: assorted (hopefully funny) sketches, jokes with historical, scientific, or political base
Notes: These are all sketch quality as opposed to finished quality.
I would be very surprised if no one has tried to make this pun yet.
Everyone is entitled to one Twilight joke. What is it with girls named Bela and obsessive relationships?
Admittedly Iceland is a little small to rule the world. And a little dead inside. But the climate models say that agricultural production will shift toward the poles, putting Russia and Canada, at least, sitting pretty while the rest of the world starves. ^^;
I was reading this news article and this was the mental image I got. I was really careless about drawing it, though, so forgive the quality. But seriously, an issue of Spiderman with Obama in it? That's something that would make being president worthwhile.
The permafrost is melting. When the foundation under the trees goes out, the trees get all lopsided. Scientists aptly use the term 'drunk' when describing this phenomenon. I can only blame vodka.
This is what Turkey's mask always makes me think of.
I hope this is legible. During the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Crusaders raided Constantinople instead of attacking the Muslims in the Holy Land. I don't know how they managed such an enormous misunderstanding. (Whenever I draw Byzantine stuff, I usually just assume that it's a very tiny Greece. They called it the Greek empire at the time, after all, at least some of the time. My pet theory is that Rome was probably Greece's dad, and that tiny Greece was the Byzantine empire until it fell to the Ottomans, but that's just me. The crusader is a very, very tiny France.)
Young Viking Denmark and Young Viking Norway picking on an even Younger England, because that's just what they do.
Apparently meteors hit Russia every once in a while. I'm not sure exactly which event my teacher was talking about, but both work, and both are doodlable during lectures.
A volcano blew up in Indonesia, causing blacked out skies and freezing temperatures all over the Northern Hemisphere, which is something like what had happened in 1783 Iceland, only worse and not in Iceland, so don't blame him.
The tectonic plate with America on it is smashing into and getting subducted under the plate with Russia on it, causing active volcanoes around the Pacific rim and an enormous trench off the coast of Alaska. So eventually, we really will be one with Russia. Oh the irony. (Please ignore the poor quality, I drew it very tiny and very quickly.)
(Forgive me, I had no references for Korea.) During the 1880s, Japan had a pretty poor opinion of the mainland, because they considered them backward and did not want the West to put them in the same category. A guy named Fukuzawa Yukichi wrote a really interesting, racist essay about it in 1885, which I had to read for my history class. This was the main point.
One of the reasons the Ottoman Empire was successful in conquering the city of Constantinople and defeating the Byzantine empire was because they'd gotten some really massive cannons from Hungary and Italy. My textbook mentioned it and I felt like drawing it. I know that the outfit Turkey is wearing is anachronistic, but it's just a doodle.
George Frederick Handel, a baroque composer, did a lot of work, including The Messiah, in English, even though his first language was German. He was generally really good at English, although there were a few instances in which he may have misinterpreted the lyrics. Here, rather than suggesting that we have all gone astray, he instead suggested that all of us like sheep.
The newspaper I was reading that day had a big long article (that I didn't get to finish, unfortunately) about the economic troubles of Eastern Europe. It said that the Eastern countries (notably Hungary) were looking for financial help, but the Western countries (notably Germany) put their foot down. I wish I knew more about it, but this was what I got from it.
According to the same newspaper, Ukraine is apparently one of the newer people to sit on this bench. In the words of the New York Times, "A small country like Latvia or Iceland is one thing, but a collapse in Ukraine could wreck what little investor confidence is left in Eastern Europe..." The way the times simply brushed the first two aside was something I considered both funny and offensive, but apparently not so offensive that I won't poke fun at it myself.
All of these can by found at DeviantArt, although they're almost all in scraps, so they'll be a little hard to find, if anyone cares.
Any and all criticism is welcome. ^-^
Author/Artist: me
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Sealand, Belarus, Russia, Canada, Iceland, America, Turkey, France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, England, Japan, China, Korea, George Frederick Handel, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Latvia
Rating: PG
Warnings: rough sketches, some work without references, one instance of language warning
Summary: assorted (hopefully funny) sketches, jokes with historical, scientific, or political base
Notes: These are all sketch quality as opposed to finished quality.
I would be very surprised if no one has tried to make this pun yet.
Everyone is entitled to one Twilight joke. What is it with girls named Bela and obsessive relationships?
Admittedly Iceland is a little small to rule the world. And a little dead inside. But the climate models say that agricultural production will shift toward the poles, putting Russia and Canada, at least, sitting pretty while the rest of the world starves. ^^;
I was reading this news article and this was the mental image I got. I was really careless about drawing it, though, so forgive the quality. But seriously, an issue of Spiderman with Obama in it? That's something that would make being president worthwhile.
The permafrost is melting. When the foundation under the trees goes out, the trees get all lopsided. Scientists aptly use the term 'drunk' when describing this phenomenon. I can only blame vodka.
This is what Turkey's mask always makes me think of.
I hope this is legible. During the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Crusaders raided Constantinople instead of attacking the Muslims in the Holy Land. I don't know how they managed such an enormous misunderstanding. (Whenever I draw Byzantine stuff, I usually just assume that it's a very tiny Greece. They called it the Greek empire at the time, after all, at least some of the time. My pet theory is that Rome was probably Greece's dad, and that tiny Greece was the Byzantine empire until it fell to the Ottomans, but that's just me. The crusader is a very, very tiny France.)
Young Viking Denmark and Young Viking Norway picking on an even Younger England, because that's just what they do.
Apparently meteors hit Russia every once in a while. I'm not sure exactly which event my teacher was talking about, but both work, and both are doodlable during lectures.
A volcano blew up in Indonesia, causing blacked out skies and freezing temperatures all over the Northern Hemisphere, which is something like what had happened in 1783 Iceland, only worse and not in Iceland, so don't blame him.
The tectonic plate with America on it is smashing into and getting subducted under the plate with Russia on it, causing active volcanoes around the Pacific rim and an enormous trench off the coast of Alaska. So eventually, we really will be one with Russia. Oh the irony. (Please ignore the poor quality, I drew it very tiny and very quickly.)
(Forgive me, I had no references for Korea.) During the 1880s, Japan had a pretty poor opinion of the mainland, because they considered them backward and did not want the West to put them in the same category. A guy named Fukuzawa Yukichi wrote a really interesting, racist essay about it in 1885, which I had to read for my history class. This was the main point.
One of the reasons the Ottoman Empire was successful in conquering the city of Constantinople and defeating the Byzantine empire was because they'd gotten some really massive cannons from Hungary and Italy. My textbook mentioned it and I felt like drawing it. I know that the outfit Turkey is wearing is anachronistic, but it's just a doodle.
George Frederick Handel, a baroque composer, did a lot of work, including The Messiah, in English, even though his first language was German. He was generally really good at English, although there were a few instances in which he may have misinterpreted the lyrics. Here, rather than suggesting that we have all gone astray, he instead suggested that all of us like sheep.
The newspaper I was reading that day had a big long article (that I didn't get to finish, unfortunately) about the economic troubles of Eastern Europe. It said that the Eastern countries (notably Hungary) were looking for financial help, but the Western countries (notably Germany) put their foot down. I wish I knew more about it, but this was what I got from it.
According to the same newspaper, Ukraine is apparently one of the newer people to sit on this bench. In the words of the New York Times, "A small country like Latvia or Iceland is one thing, but a collapse in Ukraine could wreck what little investor confidence is left in Eastern Europe..." The way the times simply brushed the first two aside was something I considered both funny and offensive, but apparently not so offensive that I won't poke fun at it myself.
All of these can by found at DeviantArt, although they're almost all in scraps, so they'll be a little hard to find, if anyone cares.
Any and all criticism is welcome. ^-^
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The Tunguska event sounds really interesting, though. The only details I know are from Wikipedia. ^^;