Unemployment relief delivered by the government in minuscule amounts, The Worker. July 3, 1933.
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Mad Magazine had its share of great illustrators, but damn, Davis’ work was exquisite.
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Pirates
We celebrate Pirate lore with parades and parties, let’s just not celebrate their deeds.
More Mo & Mo comics at disentangledweb.com
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Found via Union of Concerned Scientists
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It’s no laughing matter. Austerity, consolidation and platform disparity undermine cartoons and comics
by Rob Tornoe
Ginger Meggs is an institution in Australia, where the beloved comic strip — about a “red-haired larrikin” living in the suburbs — has run in newspapers nationwide for over 100 years.
But that relationship between generations of Australians and the newspapers that have long published the comic strip was instantly severed when the two major chains down under — Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia and Nine Entertainment — decided to eliminate all comic strips.
News Corp. was first to the party, ending the funny pages in over 100 Australian newspapers in September 2022 to focus on games and puzzles, citing “changing readership habits of our audiences.” Nine Entertainment, whose chain of 100 newspapers includes the country’s most-read broadsheet, the Sydney Morning Herald, did the same thing in August.
It wasn’t just “Ginger Meggs” that was impacted. Other long-running Australian comic strips —“Swamp” by Gary Clark, “Snake” by Sols (real name Allan Salisbury), “Insanity Streak” by Tony Lopes, and “Beyond the Black Stump ” by Sean Leahy — all came suddenly face-to-face with a future where not a single newspaper in the entire country published comics.
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Bloodbath. I figured I’d wade into the bloodbath controversy. Yeah, I got the original context, but I wouldn’t bet that many of his cult heard it that way, either. He can be counted on to go for the most incendiary phrases available. It’s no accident. He’s a menace.
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