When I announced I would be drawing five cartoons this week, I wrote “Will I crumble under the deadline pressure and phone in a celebrity obit?”
Ha! Well, hopefully you don’t think this qualifies as phoning it in, though I suppose it qualifies as an obit. After noting in my column on Cartoon Movement this week the complete lack of critical obits, I decided to incorporate the reincarnation idea while simultaneously attacking lame obits themselves.
Jobs designed great products (I use them) but the sycophancy over the past week has been a little much. He’s even been described as this generation’s John Lennon, which makes sense if you ignore the fact that Lennon was murdered and shipped zero jobs overseas. Apple’s record on labor practices are about as abysmal as any corporation, but they make sexy products so people don’t care as much.
I should point out that Ted Rall seems to be the only other person who did a critical obit cartoon of Jobs, albeit right before he died (strangely enough). And August Pollak did a brilliant memorial cartoon app.
Thank you for this. Just because an asshole is dead is no reason not to call him out for being an asshole.
Great job putting out five cartoons this week! Hopefully it hasn’t affected your health. No hacking coughs or what not. Jobs being reincarnated as a Chinese factory worker is even better than my idea of his being reincarnated as a worm. (Get it? Because they are found in apples! Ha! I could be the next Ramirez, that is if I drew the worm driving his car-apple, Richard Scarey style, off a bridge.) Sorry.
You’re not phoning it in — you’re iPhoning it in.
Which is more stylish and chic, and works out perfectly fine as long as you hold it like this.
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Long time reader, first time commenter. Mr. Bors, this is by far my favourite piece you have ever done. It says so succinctly what I’ve been trying so desperately to put into words. Thank you.
Would have been fumier if he came back to Samsung
Bulls-eye, Matt. You’re on a roll.
Brilliant!
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Really perfect, you capture how I felt about it all. I was appalled that the guy who ended all of Apple’s philanthropic practices and was so heartless in the way he conducted business was being honoured as a saint. You would think it was the 80s.
The best critique of Steve Jobs and Apple I’ve read so far:
“Think Different: Why Steve Jobs Doesn’t Deserve Your Tears”
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38814/think-different-why-steve-jobs-doesnt-deserve-your-tears/
Yah, technically you did an obit cartoon, but the important thing was you did it right and mocked all the other obit cartoons in the process. I don’t think there is anything wrong with obit cartoons inherently as long as they have something interesting or new to contribute. The issue is, as you have already and most excellently pointed out at length, most don’t have either something interesting or new to contribute and are predictable to the point of just being sad.
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Simply the best Steve Jobs cartoon I’ve seen – bravo, bravo, bravo!
Hahaha… Fantastic!!!!
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This is the best cartoon about Jobs I’ve seen since he passed away… I can’t stand how the God of consumption has be worshipped… Thanks for the links for Rall’s and Pollak’s cartoon.
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Funny cartoon.
But all the self-righteous comments posted here notwithstanding, Jobs did create jobs oversees and there’s nothing wrong with that.
As for ending Apple’s philanthropic programs, it’s not the function of a company to be philanthropic. It’s to provide consumers with products they want at the lowest cost. Consumers can then do whatever they want with the money they didn’t have to spend if they’d bought sub-par hardware made by a union guy drawing 3x the wages. If you’re so concerned about charity, handle it yourself instead of waiting for some corporation to do it.
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Jobs was a complex character and this comic was a nice tart counterpart to the sugary bits that floated around right after his death. Keep up the great work Matt.