Politics of the Funnies Part 1
Imaginary Worlds
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The Politics of Comic Strips
Walt kelly was not the first artist to use this strip to say something political, but he did it in a way that changed the culture of the comics page. Local editors were super squeamish about introducing any comics that might rile up their readers. Anything experimental, aesthetically experimental, or politically challenging, anow satirical, was also considered sort of poisonous to the medium. Back then, there was a lot of money behind the idea that the funny pages were supposed to be a neutral zone,. An oasis of family fun in the middle of a newspaper full of politics.
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