Conservative Cartooning

By MixedMetaphors.net on August 16, 2004 2:49 PM | 1 Comment

There's this new comic strip called "Prickly City" which is intended to provide a conservative "rebuttal to the likes of Doonesbury and The Boondocks". As far as syndicated comic strips go it is mildy decent though mostly uninteresting, which describes about 49% of comic strips (50% being treacly flapdoodle, and the remaining 1% being okay.) I have no issue with a conservative themed comic strip (though "Prickly City" does seem like it is trying a little too hard to stick to the party line). My concern is that the comic's main conservative viewpoint is espoused by a young African American girl, while the author is most definitely white. I have no problem with a white cartoonist penning a black character, but it seems a little bit disingenuous for Scott Stantis to push an agenda in this way. Am I being overly sensitive? Perhaps most comics in the 'liberal media' are pushing liberal agendas in the same manner. I suppose Berkeley Breathed, author of "Bloom County", used an impoverished African American girl to preach what can only be called an extreme liberal viewpoint (they lived in a commune, for goodness sakes). Yet for some reason this seems different to me.

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jeff | August 24, 2004 2:13 PM

Argh. I've got to stop reading this stupid comic strip. I keep checking on it just to see how inanely partisan it can be, and then I get upset when it is inanely partisan. I couldn't care less that it isn't funny. A lot of comics aren't funny and I don't get upset about it. But it's something else that really irks me. For example, the Aug 23 strip shows the protagonist coyote talking to John Edwards, but then John Edwards runs the coyote over in an attempt to "chase an ambulance", before John Edwards remembers he is no longer an "ambulance chaser", but, rather, a vice presidential candidate. It's so stupid. But why does it enrage me so? Maybe it's because the strip is trying so hard to make anti-Democrat jokes instead of being a comic strip that makes jokes which happen to be anti-Democrat. It's a small difference, but it's there.

Now that I think about it, I also get annoyed by the cloyingly liberal comic strips such as "This Modern World" and the other partisan nonsense found in local arts & entertainment journals. So I guess my real problem is when partisan humor, no matter the bias, attempts to make a "joke" by pointing out how stupid/evil/wrong the other side is, but is really making obviously inacurate leaps of logic that the author takes as a given. And I hate obviously inacurate leaps of logic that authors take as given.

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