Friday, 15 February 2019

POPEYE - THE BANNED STRIPS - MINI-GUEST POST BY BARRY PEARL...


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What exactly is censorship?

If you don't know about it, for decades Popeye had been a strip read by families with great pleasure.  In 1992, Bobby London wrote and drew a series satirizing abortion, politics, and the clergy.  It was not just rejected - he was fired.

If a comic publisher or syndicator rejects a job because he feels it does not fill his needs, is that 'rejection' or 'censorship'?  Would you have published these strips in a daily paper in the comics section?

In this story, Olive gets a baby doll from the Home Shopping Network and it is a bit of a duplicate of Bluto.  When she decides to get rid of it, a clergyman thinks she is talking about a real baby.






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