And this is just hilarious:
But, of course, Doonesbury comes and messes things up
There's a place for lists of people who have died in Iraq, but the comics section isn't that place. The comics is for humor, not for sorrow or for political statements, although Garry Trudeau has consistently used his comic as his platform before.
There's very little that will kill humor faster than politics, if it isn't done right. Jay Leno (or his writing staff) can make funny jokes about the War in Iraq, but almost everyone else who tries is too bitter to pull it off.
But, while we're on the subject of lists of the dead:
Posted by Blog Jones at May 31, 2004 09:29 AM
| Category: The "Lighter Side"
re. Trudeau - really, though if another cartoonist had decided to do the same thing, would you have minded? there's a price to be paid for war and Trudeau has every right to remind us of it - newspapers can choose not to print it if they like, but why should we keep our heads in the sand? people are dying. this is one way to honor them - the comics page is just "for humor"? who says so? that's one opinion - clearly most newspapers in the nation disagree - cheers
Posted by: Former Joneser at June 3, 2004 05:30 PMProbably, I would have, though probably not as much.
Trudeau uses his comic as a platform for his political position so routinely that it's unlikely that he's not making a political statement now. That's what offends me: not only the fact that he's using our war dead's names to make a political statement, but also the fact that he's even making that statement on the comics page.
Who says the comics is for humor? I do. (That's what my blog is all about! :-) ) The comics are for entertainment, not for persuasion. If, say, Saturday Night Live spent it's entire show reading a list of people who died in the war, wouldn't you be less thrilled?
Posted by: Blog Jones at June 3, 2004 08:24 PM