The Tories have launched a new poster campaign with such a… strong message that I felt compelled to produce my own version. Sadly, I imagine this one would also go down well at Conservative Home.
(The original image is from here - I’m assuming, given the Quatro thing, they’ll have a sense of humour about this sort of thing.)
Sod Mumsnet - what with MyDavidCameron.com, the Guardian’s April Fools joke and the Fire Up The Quatro back-and-forth, this is shaping up to be the Photoshop election. I might not know about biscuits, but I do know about hastily cobbled together composite images of questionable funniness. So, here are a couple of efforts based on the recent manifesto launches (actually put together in the GIMP, natch):
When I first published the previous entry, I’d mistyped the quote in the title as “You Killed Anne L. Retentive With A Type?” I corrected this, but then an alternative script for the comic in question popped into my head. “Hang on,”, I thought, “hasn’t Dilbert just grown all sorts of groovy, funky Web 2.0 shenanigans that allow you do do those ‘mash up’ things the kids are talking about these days?” (Free tip: if you want to read Dilbert without all of the extraneous bells and whistles, try http://dilbert.com/fast/.)
It turns out that you can produce modified versions of comics, but only in fairly limited ways. However, I do still have the GIMP:
