Steve Cutts' work is anything but subtle.
I don't necessarily disagree with the messages from his shorts, but I can see why some people find the way in which said messages are delivered to be extremely preachy and hamfisted.
Here, for example, we have stuff like a Donald Trump robot briefly turning into a swastika before transforming into the dollar symbol, while fighting a bunch of heroes with "justice" written on their shields.
Whatever one could think of Trump or any similar political figure, such kind of imagery is frankly ridiculous and over the top.
I can see Cutts is aiming for a "bitterly ironic" tone here, juxtaposing real life injustices with the naive aesthetic of the saturday morning cartoon world, but still feels cheesy anyway, like that stupid couch gag Bansky made for The Simpsons some time ago.
I don't necessarily disagree with the messages from his shorts, but I can see why some people find the way in which said messages are delivered to be extremely preachy and hamfisted.
Here, for example, we have stuff like a Donald Trump robot briefly turning into a swastika before transforming into the dollar symbol, while fighting a bunch of heroes with "justice" written on their shields.
Whatever one could think of Trump or any similar political figure, such kind of imagery is frankly ridiculous and over the top.
I can see Cutts is aiming for a "bitterly ironic" tone here, juxtaposing real life injustices with the naive aesthetic of the saturday morning cartoon world, but still feels cheesy anyway, like that stupid couch gag Bansky made for The Simpsons some time ago.