November 21, 2003
Readers Poll

Fundamentalist Christian cartoonist Johnny Hart has faced some flack for incendiary and insensitive cartooning in the past. Is he up to it again? Or are people just reading to much into an innocent (and not very funny) cartoon? Berkeley Breathed agrees with the former, Garry Trudeau, the latter.
What do you think? Let us know, and then check out the Washington Post article.
Posted by cs at November 21, 2003 8:33 AM
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(First impression through Southern Baptist cultural sensibilities): I don't get what's supposed to be funny about this cartoon. It would have been funnier if after slamming the door between frame 1 and 2, if the outhouse fell over in frame 3.
I'm always a little suspicious of BC strips, though. Comes from said Southern Baptist cultural sensibilities.
Now, if either the moon in the sky or the one on the door had a star by it, I would have instantly taken the more insidious possible meaning. (I'd already read the WP article, so my stated first impression is probably tainted.) However, given the ostensible symbolism of that one awhile back with a lighted menorah having each of its candles extinguished with each of Jesus' final sentences on the cross, and then becoming a cross, along with other blatant crosses and such, I think this might be a little subtle for Hart.
Zoe?
Posted by: Amanda at November 21, 2003 11:10 AM
I didn't read this comic when it originally ran, I avoid B.C., I don't think it's very funny and disagree with Hart's approach to evangalizing.
I agree with Berkeley Breathed: extremely suspect.
Posted by: Chris at November 21, 2003 12:16 PM
agree. impossible to read in any way other than incendiary.
Posted by: eebmore at November 26, 2003 3:04 PM
Am I just incredibly dense? I have no clue what this comic is supposed to mean. I really am totally oblivious.
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