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#226

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Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:31pm

I tried to make them just that papa. What is a good serious discussion without a fight.

Superman was created as an Anti-communist icon. I always found it a bit odd that the God like alien would be so invested in the American way. If that ship had landed in Germany would he have been a Nazi?

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#227

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:37pm

actually, guin, when superman was created in 1938 the global scourge was fascism, not so much communism.

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#228

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:38pm

And why would Americans put their hope in an alien anyway? He's not one of them.
But seriously, what superhero wasn't out to save America? That's just a manifestation of the authors scrambling to prove themselves loyal Americans. Otherwise, McCarthy might nail them.

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#229

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:41pm

Communism had been the global scourge since 1917, every country was afraid it would overtake them. Most Americans did not see Fascism as a threat to "us" but Communism was around and had that capability to spread. While the global vileness of Fascism was indeed at its peak, the main concern of the "American Way" was Communism (up until we finally decided to enter the war, and we liked "Uncle Joe".)

Stage Whore- Batman was out for himself, he couldn't give a rat a*s about America.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

Updated On: 1/24/06 at 12:41 PM

#230

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:57pm

maybe not most americans, but two young jewish men not seeing hitler and fascism as a threat in '38? superman at his inception mimicked the politics of his creators and was a powerful champion for the waek, the underprivileged and the oppressed. in one early story superman destroyed an entire ghetto in order to force the city and corporate heads to build a fair, clean, crime-free community for poor residents. that's pretty far from anti-communist, in fact it leans towards it. granted towards the end of the war and from then on, he grew more conservative. although, there was the "superman vs. the kkk" during the radio series in the 40's which did serious damage to the klan using information from a reporter who'd goine undercover into the klan.

#231

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:00pm

In the early days there was certainly a liberal ethic to Superman, but he did move father and farther from it. By the late 50's and 60's he was certainly the prototype for American/Capitalist idealism.

I don't remeber the particular stories well, but I have read almost all of the pre-war Action Comics and I just remember Superman functioning as a pro-American, although with the championing of the weak you talk about.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#232

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:06pm

Great topic, gang! JUST fantastic.
Sorry it took so long to edit the title, I was actually working! go figure.
I love this idea, especially given my long, storied history with comics.
Captain America was also created directly as our "superhero" answer to World War II. The Red Skull, his nemesis, was a Nazi, after all.
Also, The X-Men were originally created, in most ways, as a way to shed light on the topic of racism and prejudice: a group of people unlike "regular" folk, shunned from society and actually feared.

#233

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:17pm

last time i rented the casablanca dvd it included a cartoon short that was a parody of to have and have not called bacall to armswhich was wildly racist. it was interesting to see what was acceptable as recently as the late 40's.

#234

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:19pm

Well, you can see some amazingly racist things even in the cartoons they still air from the WB and...oh, crap, the ones who did Popeye.

#235

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Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:23pm

i think a lot of times stuff like that slips through because people have forgotten just how offensive some of those portrayals can be to a modern audience. i wonder how much review of content is done when a network acquires the broadcast rights for cartoons? especially older ones.

#236

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:25pm

But many political cartoons in the papers particularly in the newspapers of the late 1800's and the early 1900's were full of invective racist cartoons to rile the readers up. On the East Coast, there were anti-Irish cartoons. On the West Coast, there were anti-Chinese cartoons. The Hearst publications come to mind. And also where the term "yellow journalism" comes into usage.

#237

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:25pm

The racism from some 40's cartoons (not to mention the earlier ones) is really astonishing. I remember a really racist "Woody Woodpecker" that I only saw once when I was really little, but it freaked me out.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#238

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:28pm

you're right cookie. i always laugh when someone on the right or the left talks about a particular cartoon (and they do) and bemoans the loss of civility in the modern world. the cartoons of yesteryear make the most controversial of today's editorial cartoons seem like bubbles and rainbows by comparison.

#239

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:37pm

The big thing about political cartoons is that it seems sometimes the worst stereotypes come from artists who had been advocating equality.

When the Civil War ended Thomas Nast had many cartoons extoling the virtue of the "black american" but by the 1870's he was drawing virilently racist cartoons to decry the blacks in the legislature.

There were never such things as civil elections or politics. It is odd to me that somehow people wish for the olden days when we "all got along" even when only white landowning men could vote they were killing each other in the streets over the elections.

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#240

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:43pm

i didn't know that anyone was seriously advocating a return that far back in time, guin.

#241

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:44pm

I don't know, have you asked Roxy?

I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.

#242

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 2:52pm

now now, let's keep it positive.

could bugs bunny, a character prone to drag and kissing men, women and animals, achieve in today's world the kind of status he achieved in his own time?

#243

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:03pm

Of course not! Our sensibitilies were something to be created like that today would be offended...looking back, you can view it with a sort of period innocence.
But he was definitely born out of that classic vaudeville comedian, playing all those various roles. Aren't there many moments in Bob Hope films of the "guy in a dress" playing a trick?

#244

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:12pm

sure there are plenty of eamples from films of the period with men in drag that had no sexual connotation, or very little, to them. i've often wondered if some of smigel's cartoons could exist on their own outside the tv funhouse. a weekly version of the amiguously gay duo for example.

#245

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:52am

Gah. I'm really sorry I was so ill yesterday, this was an interesting topic to discuss, especially since I've not thought about the political intent of cartoons not necessarily out to have a political stance as their primary purpose.

So, what's up for discussion today?

#246

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:53am

Any suggestions for a topic today?

Yesterday some of the folks on the Adult smoking thread were talking about the loss of landmarks and the lack of preservation of historic buildings, areas and businesses. Anyone interested in discussing that today?

Other suggestions?

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#247

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:54am

I really like the 'preservation' topic.

#248

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:56am

I think we have early consensus.

#249

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 9:04am

Works for me...a issue painfully driven home by the closing of Barrymore's. Last night, our waiter told us that the landlord had raised the rent so high that it made it impossible for them to stay open. This guy had been working there for 15 years. For as long as I've been going there, the staff has felt so invested and consistent. Just one more constant in life falling by the wayside.

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#250

re: the serious discussion thread

Posted: 1/25/06 at 9:09am

"Just one more constant in life falling by the wayside."

Although I have a tendency to gravitate toward the "Please Preserve" mentality, this statement leads me to a different viewpoint (if only for the sake of discussion.)

Life isn't a constant, so holding onto something just for the sake of holding on isn't necessarily always the correct perspective. If the life of the area has changed into something that makes a different reality make more sense, then I say tear it down and move on.

At least in a discussion

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