From 1973


12 comments:

Cassandra said...

In 1973 that was a joke.

In 2019, that *is* the process. Incroyable....

Anonymous said...

Everything old is *alas* new again.

I may use that in class next week (New York Times, the 1st Amendment, and the Pentagon Papers.)

LittleRed1

E Hines said...

OT....

...the 1st Amendment, and the Pentagon Papers

Gonna talk about ordinary citizens who receive stolen property go to jail, but members of the Press Priesthood are immune? Has 14th Amendment implications, too.

Eric Hines

Cassandra said...

Now now, you big brutes!

I hear the Dems have yet another BOMBSHELL up their sleeves!!!!11!!

Texan99 said...

Oh, Cassandra, I didn't realize how much I missed you. :-)

Anonymous said...

Eric,
I don't think so. I'm tied to the AP/ College Board curriculum on this one, and their focus is, ah, a little different. (I keep grousing about the textbook's bias. Then I read through the college textbook. NeeeEEEEEeevermind.)

LittleRed1

E Hines said...

LittleRed, I didn't think so. Straitjackets have tentacles....

More's the pity.

Eric Hines

Cassandra said...

:)

J Melcher said...

Interpreting the topic a bit differently:

The Dallas newspaper Sunday "funnies" include at least two re-run strips, Schultz's Peanuts and Lynn Johnson's For Better or Worse. There may be others -- I mean, who can actually tell if Prince Valiant or Family Circus is a re-run or not? (Anybody can tell an old Doonesbury from a new one -- the old one will be funny. The DMN doesn't run those. ) Anyhow --

There is a deep archive of great and timeless political or just thoughtful adventure cartooning out there. Lil' Abner, Pogo, Steve Canyon, Dick Tracy... As suggested by the single strip above, I would dearly love to see a page, or website, edited with a mind to matching the events comically interpreted in the past matched to events occurring, or re-occurring, at the current moment. What was Pogo saying about over-loaded presidential primary season? What sort of secret adventures did Air Force Colonel Steve Canyon attempt in Crimea? What sort of impact would an influx of free stuff -- Shmoos -- on the economy of Dogpatch?

I want a curated match running the weeks of a comic strip story line, to be replaced with a whole 'nother strip later. But I worry about what sort of copyright trouble a person would be in, if say, a daily strip from 1948 started re-streaming on Twitter.

Grim said...

Both Doonsbury and Bloom County has ‘Donald Trump for President’ strips in 1988. Those would be interesting to see again.

Texan99 said...

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1988/09/01

Texan99 said...

Bloom County, 2-17-89, https://comicarttracker.com/bloom-county-original-art-for-sale