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Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two mirrored hilly coastlines facing each other across water, each with a tower, a spire, a domed hut and a sailing ship. Left side labels: OUR BLESSED PIG FARMS, OUR GLORIOUS LEADER, OUR GREAT RELIGION, OUR NOBLE POPULACE, OUR HEROIC ADVENTURERS. Right side: THEIR HOG STREWN WASTES, THEIR WICKED DESPOT, THEIR PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION, THEIR BACKWARD SAVAGES, THEIR BRUTISH INVADERS. Signed TOM…

Our Blessed Pig Farms, Their Hog Strewn Wastes

Tom Gauld's mirrored cartoon shows two identical lands calling the same things glorious or savage, a sharp joke about propaganda, us-versus-them thinking and history class.

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Cartoon by Tom Gauld of two mirrored hilly coastlines facing each other across water, each with a tower, a spire, a domed hut and a sailing ship. Left side labels: OUR BLESSED PIG FARMS, OUR GLORIOUS LEADER, OUR GREAT RELIGION, OUR NOBLE POPULACE, OUR HEROIC ADVENTURERS. Right side: THEIR HOG STREWN WASTES, THEIR WICKED DESPOT, THEIR PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION, THEIR BACKWARD SAVAGES, THEIR BRUTISH INVADERS. Signed TOM…

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