Laughing at the Left (Conservatives on the Funny Pages?)

City Journal ^ | Summer 2005 | Harry Stein

[geopyg]

Today's cartoon was how we lost the Spanish American War. At least in the sense that we're still paying a phone tax to cover the cost of the war (3%). Congress voted to end it in 2000, but "somebody" vetoed the bill. (Clinton).

Then it asks you to write your senator and tell them how you feel about this tax. It even says a handy email form can be found at the Americans for Tax Reform website (ATR.org).

[Carry_Okie]

No mention of Bloom County or Dilbert, both of which have regularly exposed the hypocrisy of the politically correct left.

[King Prout]

In explaining his political shift, Capp described an ideological journey that countless other liberals would make in the decades to follow. “What began to bother me, privately, was that, as things grew better, the empire of the needy seemed to grow larger. Somehow they became entitled to government gifts other people couldn’t get, such as people who worked,” Capp explained. “Yet I remained a loyal liberal,” he continued. “I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the home of liberalism. I spoke at liberal banquets in New York, Los Angeles, Washington. One day a lady photographer came to my studio and showed me a collection of Boston photographs. A publisher would publish them if only I would rattle off the captions. . . . Well, one doesn’t turn down a lady liberal. . . . This one, she said, will break your heart. She showed me a picture of a city street. It was mid-afternoon, the sun was shining. Garbage cans were tipped on the sidewalk. Bottles lined the gutters. On a porch sprawled a half dozen teenagers, drinking and smoking. The caption, I said, should be, ‘Get up off your asses and clean the street!’ The lady stormed out. I guess that was when I began leaving what liberalism had become.”

[DouglasKC]

Fanstastic article...I especially loved this from Al Capp:

One day a lady photographer came to my studio and showed me a collection of Boston photographs. A publisher would publish them if only I would rattle off the captions. . . . Well, one doesn’t turn down a lady liberal. . . . This one, she said, will break your heart. She showed me a picture of a city street. It was mid-afternoon, the sun was shining. Garbage cans were tipped on the sidewalk. Bottles lined the gutters. On a porch sprawled a half dozen teenagers, drinking and smoking. The caption, I said, should be, ‘Get up off your asses and clean the street!’ The lady stormed out. I guess that was when I began leaving what liberalism had become.”

[Paleo Conservative]

Capp also came up with Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (SWINE).

[snuffy smiff]

self-ping for later read

[gamarob1]

No mention of Bloom County or Dilbert, both of which have regularly exposed the hypocrisy of the politically correct left.

Haha! Bloom County was my favorite comic strip growing up. Somehow thinking back on it now, I didn't associate it's political stance as attempting to be a parody of the PC left, but I was probably only about 10 when I was reading it, so.... maybe I missed that goal.

[King Prout]

okay, after finishing this, I say it deserves a general ping

fun stuff.

[okie01]

Great post. Thanks for sharing.

[okie01]

Great post. Thanks for sharing.

[King Prout]

about daily online comics: I have been following Sluggy Freelance for a couple of years, and find it to the right of center, in a gently South Park kind of way.

[Shortstop7]

I love Mallard!! He tells it right on!!

[Khurkris]

There is a Freeper who also does a great 'toon strip.

Can't think of it right now, I have it bkmr'd somewhere. Its a good one.

[mmercier]

Calvin and Hobbes still rocks the best of them.

No clue as to ideology as far as Watterson or Calvin goes.

[frankiep]

ping

[PAR35]

Stantis worries about the nation’s moral condition. (Having once studied to be an Episcopalian priest, he says he’s “now looking seriously at Catholicism.”)

This is buried in the article about conservative editorial cartoonists.

[burzum]

I also love Sluggy. I don't know why you think its right of center. I really haven't seen anything to suggest there is any political motivation whatsoever in the strip other than a yearly 'Get out and vote' message.

[King Prout]

supporting the troops, lack of simplistic PC talking-point "morals" (unless such things are being mocked), and inclusion of such concepts as loyalty, duty, obligation, and (oh, come now, need I say it? remember alternate-Zoe and Torg?) REDEMPTION

all suggests to me right-of-center.
not politically Right, exactly, but... it has a spine and is, oddly, wholesome

[skinkinthegrass]

"We have meet the enemy, and they are US."... BUMP :D