Filibuster Cartoons

Filibuster Cartoons is an online, hand-drawn, Canadian, political satire webcomic that was also printed in the Western Standard and was created in 2001 by J.J. McCullough, a Canadian citizen from British Columbia.

Filibuster Cartoons focuses primarily on current Canadian and American issues and satirizes the leaders, politicians and policies of both nations. In addition, the comic also deals with a wide array of current events going on around the world.

Filibuster Cartoons does not have a set group of main characters who are present in most of the episodes. The site instead uses satirical versions of real-life people as needed whenever they are present in the news in an episodic and editorial cartoon format. An exception to this is the beaver character, which often represents Canada in many cartoons.

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, and the subsequent cartoon strip satirically depicting the affair, has led to bloggers, including Andrew Sullivan, to provide links on their blogs directly to the site.

At present, the site contains nearly 1000 cartoons.

Other content
In addition to comics, the website provides other content that includes explanations to the comics, editorials, charts, and pictorial essays. The foremost section is a highly structured, yet informally written "Guide to Canada" describing the many facets of nation. The author's editorial views show him to be a supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, as well as of a presidential system of governance for Canada. He is a strong critic of the monarchy in Canada, and the voracity of some of the points brought up regarding this leads to the usage of partially biased and perhaps incorrect terminology, such as references to the Monarch as being the "Queen of England," or of Canada's membership in the "British Commonwealth." It should be noted that while McCullough recognizes these "errors" he uses them merely to push a point, and not out of ignorance.

Interviews
The Filibuster site also provides interviews with Canadian politicians that McCullough conducted as a writer for the Douglas College student newspaper The Other Press. Subjects include Svend Robinson, Iona Campagnolo, Christy Clark, Carole James, and Jack Layton.

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