Slog - Comments on He Really Is a Menace! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace The Beat links to this blog, in which a man found a book called Backstage at the Strips. There was a copy of a 1970 Dennis the Menace cartoon in the book: And also an apology for the strip that ran in the Cleveland Press the next day: Yesterday's DENNIS THE MENACE cartoon offended a number of Press readers. The Press apologizes for the affront caused by the cartoonist. It assures subscribers that such a thing will not happen again. Here I thought Family Circus was the racistest comic strip in America.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0800 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:06:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Yeek How refreshing to read an actual apology, and not that "anyone we may have offended" crap we hear so much of today.

]]> Yeek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148778 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:05:15 -0800 Comment by Carollani heh... looks like the cartoonist has been watching Sarah Silverman.

]]> Carollani http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148784 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148784 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:09:33 -0800 Comment by Collin "racistest"?

]]> Collin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148785 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:09:50 -0800 Comment by Sargon Bighorn What am I missing here?

]]> Sargon Bighorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148786 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:01 -0800 Comment by Lionel Hutz Wasn't there a "Flintstones" episode where Fred and Barney participate in a lynching?

]]> Lionel Hutz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148797 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:24:17 -0800 Comment by Trevor 1970!!!!!

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148805 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148805 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:30:03 -0800 Comment by elenchos http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=123&q=26

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148817 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:41:19 -0800 Comment by PC ~`>+*^~!

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148834 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:56:56 -0800 Comment by Sam M. For perspective, that's the same year Doonesbury started. For more perspective, it's not all that crazy considering the climate of comics throughout the world at that time... the book Black Images in the Comics is pretty compelling in this regard, if a bit too brief.

]]> Sam M. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148836 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:58:15 -0800 Comment by Mommy The "Family Circus" introduced Franklin, a black friend for one of those Billy/Jeffy things a few years ago. I hate the "Family Circus" yet I find myself checking it out once a week in order to justify my hate much as I do with this here Slog. Anyway, they had Franklin high-fiving and then Billy/Jeffy jive-talking and this is why I loved the Dysfunctional Family Circus which Bil Keane eventually nuked.

]]> Mommy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148855 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148855 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:42:31 -0800 Comment by kk I stopped reading the comics years ago, mostly over protest that they kept rerunning "Peanuts" instead of making room for an artist that wasn't, you know, dead. But for some bizarre reason I became aware at some point that I had never seen an African American appear in "Marmaduke." Then, after many years, there one was. A basketball player appearing on the family living room TV.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148856 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:44:37 -0800 Comment by i love my hourlong commute Peanuts had a character named Franklin too. D'you figure he was bussed into and from their neighborhoods?

]]> i love my hourlong commute http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148858 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:44:49 -0800 Comment by max solomon Jackson's legs are longer than Dennis'.

So there's a good reason he's havin' trouble.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148861 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148861 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:46:45 -0800 Comment by Mr. Designer Ketcham was clearly trying to make a statement. The illustration of Jackson doesn't match his usual illustration style. I'm surprised he didn't put a banana in Jackson's hand. I really don't think he was out of touch and missed the 1960s.

]]> Mr. Designer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148873 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148873 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:06:28 -0800 Comment by Balt-O-Matt Sweet Holy Jesus.

]]> Balt-O-Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148874 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148874 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:06:36 -0800 Comment by Asshole So a race between McCain and Obama? What's the problem?

]]> Asshole http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148894 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:43:19 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
Terrible.

How about this stereotype for white adult working males?

http://samueljscott.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/homer_simpson.jpg

Yet, Seattlites praise this stereotype every day...hypocrites....

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148900 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148900 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:53:38 -0800 Comment by Sad Comment If someone has to explain to you what is so very wrong with the Dennis the Menace comic and why your Homer comic isn't even a close comparison then either you are a total moron, a total racist moron, or a total racist republican moron. So, which is it?

]]> Sad Comment http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148906 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148906 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:05:49 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @10,

Check out the Comics Curmudgeon. He loves hating on Family Circus.

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@18:

I'm a white adult working male who is offended by the stereotype of Homer Simpson.

http://studio2628.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/homer_simpson31.jpg

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148916 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:15:59 -0800 Comment by k

That's hilarious. C'mon, stop being so PC.

]]> k http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148921 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:26:07 -0800 Comment by John Bailo I did this to make a point - racism is a liberal invention just like the holocaust.

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@22:

...that wasn't me by the way...that was my dummy.

Here he is "partying":

http://www.magicmagicmagic.com/images/dummies2.jpg

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148932 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:42:21 -0800 Comment by John Bailo Here's yet another horribly racist site:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

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It is important to know that when you hear a white person saying “we should do some ultimate this weekend” or “I’m so pumped for ultimate,” they are talking about a sport and not an “ultimate solution”-type race war. Though a quick look at a field full of Ultimate Frisbee players might lead one to surmise that an ethnic cleansing has taken place.
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]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148936 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148936 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:48:40 -0800 Comment by John Bailo My point is that I am a victim in so many ways.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148944 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148944 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:11:40 -0800 Comment by wow Doesn't surprise me that the artist was born and raised right here in liberal, tolerant, diverse Seattle. Queen Anne High '37.

]]> wow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148947 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:28:09 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave is kesh sockpuppeting bailo? we need a hetchet job.

BTW, comics curmudgeon is fucking hilarious.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148948 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:29:01 -0800 Comment by Tiktok My point is that I am a victim in so many ways.
Posted by John Bailo

Being a "loser" is not necessarily the same as being a "victim", although the two are not mutually exclusive.

]]> Tiktok http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148950 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:33:25 -0800 Comment by me @17 and @20: White working males are in power. (Just ask Obama and McCain who are spending hundreds of millions to sway them. Or any woman. Or any non-white person.) They have power because they vote.

It is generally okay to make fun of the powerful. It's not okay to make fun of those without or with less power. That's the difference.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1148968 Books Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:46:00 -0800 Comment by kebabs I don't think the Cleveland Press had to apologize for anything. It's clear that they reprinted the strip to illustrate the racial mindset of someone from a particular, bygone era. To protest that is akin to wanting to ban Huckleberry Finn because they drop the "n-word" casually. It's exactly like Thora Birch's art exhibit in Ghost World. Fucking idiots didn't understand what they were looking at and just wanted to shut down the whole exhibition.

]]> kebabs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149012 Books Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:22:02 -0800 Comment by kebabs Oh, crap, that'll teach me to follow the link first, then post. Forget the first couple of sentences I said.

]]> kebabs http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149020 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149020 Books Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:36:41 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
@25 dreads the thought that a Bailo government would switch to Suse Linux and eliminate his paid astroturfing fees.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/he_really_is_a_menace#c1149033 Books Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:53 -0800 Comment by Jym Dyer =v= John Bailo's regurgitation of coded racist tropes says more about himself than about anyone else. I'll note thought, that when white supremacists attempted to bootleg images of The Simpsons, the producers pointed out that the Simpsons are in fact yellow, not "white."

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