This is one picture I found after looking through many that I acually connected with on a personal level and really could identify with. I like and understand sports and I liked the humor in this cartoon.
The symbolism in it I think would be the trash and gutter like water (including cans and fishbones) coming out of his mouth and surrounding him.
The exaggeration is the oil drum or barrel of a mouth the artist has put in place of where a normal sized mouth once was. This is done to make his mouth look extra big and like it is spewing this gutter water.
The labeling is the sign that says "toxic waste" . That is a pretty obvious lable of what is around him and coming from his mouth as well.
The words toxic waste help to point out the analogy, which is what Rivers is saying. The cartoon's point is that what is coming out of his mouth or that what he is saying is equivalent to toxic waste, trash or garbage. Basically calling him on his trash talking behavior.
The irony to this cartoon is that his name with the replacing of one letter, the "S", can be changed from Philip Rivers, to Philip's River. Another ironic this is that he was such a horrible bad mouther and his team, the Chargers lost to the Patriots in playoffs.
I actually got to see his mouth in action for myself at the playoff game between the Colts and the Chargers!!! It was pretty bad, he's very mouthy!
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that's a great cartoon Gina; I'm not familiar with sports cartoons - it's a new genre for me, and I really like it!!
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