Mining the Earth
Cidu Bill on May 4th 2008
Michael Cohen: Is that supposed to be Al Gore? If not, who is it supposed to be? If so, what’s the joke? That the world’s problems are that Al Gore thinks that he owns the earth, because he’s concerned about global warming?
Filed in Al Gore, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Six Chix, comic strips, comics | 12 responses so far
src May 4th 2008 at 12:15 am 1
Hard to tell, but I think it’s supposed to be either a generic politician or businessman.
Pete May 4th 2008 at 01:09 am 2
My first thought was that it’s a generic human. Now I’m kind of appalled that I considered a white suit-and-tie male to be a reasonable representation of a generic human.
Patrick May 4th 2008 at 01:12 am 3
I agree that is a very tough call, but my guess is that the guy represents “man” (not “men” but “man” as in humanity or mankind).
Singapore Bill May 4th 2008 at 05:27 am 4
I agree with number 3 Patrick. Of course I would have spelt Man with a capital “M” or used “Humanity” instead. I’m sensitive.
harv May 4th 2008 at 08:50 am 5
My thought was White Men, specifically affluent white men.
eeyore19 May 4th 2008 at 04:07 pm 6
Well, if that *is* supposed to be Al Gore, then I guess that makes it a pun with “vise-grip” and “Vice President.”
Kaitlyn May 4th 2008 at 05:02 pm 7
What about the fact that what he - whoever he is - is holding doesn’t look like the earth?
The land is all wrong - not just poorly drawn, but in wrong places.
Lola May 4th 2008 at 05:27 pm 8
Well that’s just perfect then. He’s a generic “man” of mankind…I guess the author had to pick a gender and race and picked the most obvous to him. Why that was the most obvious to him would have to be answered by him, but Europeans and Americans in the upper socio-economic classes are well noted for their cluelessly wasteful behaviour.
The point is that people are inherently selfish. What happens when there is an announcement that something is going to be in short supply? Enough people will go out and get all they can and horde it which reinforces the notion of a shortage and exacerbates the situation in an expanding spiral. Back in the early 70s it was toilet paper. Johnny Carson (I think it was him) did a joke one night about the military having a toilet paper shortage (which I believe they actually did due to some snafu in their logistics department). People heard this, made the leap that there was a shortage everywhere and overnight there was not a roll to be seen in the supermarkets. When that was gone, all the paper towels and napkins disappeared too!
That a person with this mentality wouldn’t know where anyplace was on the planet is just the icing on the cake.
I found this really funny in a sad, dark, defeated way.
Patrick May 4th 2008 at 05:51 pm 9
Just for the record, the creator of this comic is one of six women who call themselves, collectively, “Six Chicks” (not a man).
bAT L. May 5th 2008 at 01:36 am 10
Given #9 (Patrick’s comment) and #8 (Lola’s comment) together, it’s fairly funny that #8 chose to assign a male gender to the author.
Oddly enough, just yesterday I saw an all-star cast Earth Day special that included Robin Williams as “Everyman”, very similar to the role the man in the comic plays. Given that fact, I can definitely see this comic meaning the generic person. It looks more like generic businessman, though.
Lola May 5th 2008 at 09:10 am 11
hahahah, that is funny. I’m seriously busted! Even though the name of the comic is six chix and not being a regular reader, I would never have guessed that it was written by six females and would have figured the six chicks was a reference to it’s recurring characters….assuming it has them.
Frank May 7th 2008 at 07:38 pm 12
What the hell. Let’s blame Al for everything/anything.
He’s both a greedy businessman and and a slimey politician.