About
Ben Garrison is a libertarian political cartoon artist known for creating illustrations commenting on United States political corruption, who has been the subject of a troll campaign by users of 4chan’s /pol/ (politics) board who have attempted to frame him as a radical anti-semite.
Online History
Cartoon Defacement
On August 22nd, 2010 Garrison released a cartoon titled “The March of Tyranny” on his personal blog,[2] featuring a walking Illuminati pyramid with a Democrat left leg and a Republican right leg (shown below).
“My cartoon […] shows how the banking and corporate masters (crony capitalist fascists) control both major parties behind the scenes. They keep us distracted with left vs. right while giving us the illusion that voting for one of the other parties will solve things. It won’t.”
An edited variation of the comic began circulating on 4chan featuring the antisemitic Happy Merchant illustration superimposed over the pyramid (shown below).
On May 22nd, 2011, Garrison published a blog post titled “GRRR-ALERT!”,[1] claiming that an “unknown cretin” was defacing his web cartoons with depictions of “offensive Jewish stereotypes.”
Fox 10 Prank
On April 28th, 2015, YouTuber MisterMetokur uploaded a recording of a Fox News affiliate’s live coverage of the Baltimore riots, in which the news anchors read several message from 4chan’s /po/ board referencing Ben Garrison, Baneposting, ""jet fuel can’t melt steel beams"": and other Internet memes (shown below).