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Some Guy TT posted:

good news everyone comic strip megathread poster slammy just gave his blessing for crossposting his old feiffer scans

im only mentioning this once so that people dont think im the one whos making these since its a pain in the rear end to respond to other peoples quotes

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Ogantai posted:

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Is Garrison boosting Kent Hovind there? He’s a creationist now?

Ogantai posted:

Kent Heckenlively, an anti-vaxxer

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Alan Smithee posted:

who the gently caress are kent and judy and what weird sex jizz are they espousing

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Kent Heckenlively, J.D. and Dr. Judy Mikovits are heroes who combat the politicized and corporatized science with ‘REAL’ science.

In their latest book, “The Case Against Masks,” they list 10 reasons why mask use should be limited. It’s important that we push back against the masks before they become a permanent and unhealthy fixture in our daily lives. They do physical and psychological harm. I commend the authors for telling us the scientific truth about wearing the masks, which never should have been made mandatory.

Sir Tonk posted:

arent rapiers not really ideal for slicing things not made out of soft materials?

b_d posted:

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Some Guy TT posted:

http://ruthlessrhymes.com/category/nelson_harding
(2/15/1914)

How Wonderful! posted:

Anyway-- Ruthless Rhymes For Martial Militants was a relatively short-lived single panel strip that ran from 1913 to 1914. It was written and drawn by the cartoonist Nelson Harding, who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and again in 1928-- he was a lifelong political conservative who idolized Charles Lindbergh and depicted leftists and boogeyman Bolsheviks as bomb-throwing, arson-loving seditionists.

Ruthless Rhymes is a response to two particular subjects that would have been very timely in 1913, and the overlap between the two is what makes this strip so interesting to me. First is the manifest subject matter of the comic. The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a UK-based suffragette movement that was founded in 1903 and quickly gained a reputation for taking what seemed to many like drastic measures in their struggle for womens' rights, ranging from hunger strikes to smashing windows and burning down unoccupied houses, on top of conventional actions such as demonstrations and marches. It was helmed and defined by the firebrand Pankhurst family-- Emmaline Pankhurst and her two daughters, Christabel and Sylvia. The WSPU was also incredibly media savvy, and when popular theater latched onto suffragettes as a source of drama, the WSPU was right there to capitalize on that newfound public interest, embracing drama, cartooning, and satirical writing as valuable rhetorical tools.

As a personal aside here's a little framed reproduction in my home office of the famous portrait of Christabel Pankhurst and her comrade the feminist-socialist Annie Kenney that was given to me for some reason by one of my favorite professors years ago:

Christabel in particular was a polarizing, complex, and contradictory figure-- she pushed for the group's increasing militancy but also wanted to curate membership to center middle and upper class women. She fought for issues like sexual health education and access to birth control but puzzlingly simultaneously argued that opening the movement up to working class women would water down the fight for votes with other issues. Later in her life she moved to California where she became obsessed with Evangelical Christian doomsday prophecies and was a frequent guest on radio and TV shows to talk about that stuff.

As you can imagine Nelson Harding was not a fan, and he mostly takes jabs at what he sees as the absurd gulf between the violent tactics of the WSPU and the (to him) quaint notion of radical female agitators. His vehicle for this is a pastiche of the type of doggerel known as the "Little Willie" poem, which we've seen ITT already. Popularized in the 1890s by Harry Graham writing under the pen-name Col D. Streamer, these poems fundamentally combined one of a handful of simple rhyme schemes with a schema which juxtaposed a shocking act of violence with a bemused or muted response. The really good ones also features some clever wordplay in the stinger but expecting 1890s popular poems to be good is more than the universe is usually willing to provide.

The result is that to a modern audience of a certain bent, these strips, despite being almost certainly published as a critique and a mockery of the WSPU, seem sympathetic in their strident representation of women throwing bombs and poisoning tea. I think that for many people in this thread the strips are more likely to elicit a "hell yeah" than an "oh my."

Some Guy TT posted:

i sure do love stealing imgur links

gradenko_2000 posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/muskrat_john/status/1297869671417421827

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Do you think Chuck is still alive? Did he quit before trump? I can’t remember any more.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/muskrat_john/status/1297869671417421827

Ogantai posted:

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Do you think Chuck is still alive? Did he quit before trump? I can’t remember any more.

Some Guy TT posted:

Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants (4/6/1913)

Avirosb posted:

Saw this and thought of Garrison.

https://twitter.com/FlipCityMag/status/1276616964928991233