Can’t believe this comic is always on point. It feels so modern with the situations it shows each time, and yet it’s 100+ years old.
To me, it’s a good reminder not to paint the past with too broad of a brush. People are people.
So why should it be. You and I should get along so awfully
So you’re punching and you’re kicking and you’re shouting at me
I’m relying on your common decency
So far it hasn’t surfaced but I’m sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fist
(Gonna have that stuck in my head for a while now)
People who post these are being very selective. Some of them hold up, some of them not so much. Here’s a book:
The Outbursts of Everett True (1907)
Page 42 and 100 are good examples.
Some of them hold up, some of them not so much.
As does any work over time.
There’s, however, a difference in a depiction that was common at the time, versus outright racism. I mean, people still read about and rave over Lovecraft’s work and he was so racist that the other racists of his time used to tell him to chill.
You take the good with the bad in things from another time. Enjoy what you can in the good and learn from the bad.
I did not know this ☹️ I do recall some interesting name choices though so I guess I should have realized. There was a cat in a story (Rats in the walls I think) that had a slur for a name.
people still read about and rave over Lovecraft’s work and he was so racist that the other racists of his time used to tell him to chill.
I’ve heard he did actually chill in his later years
Ouch, those are not good indeed.
Also, the last page shines a new light on how bad Mr True’s “outbursts” really get, holy shit.
Perhaps not PC, but still somewhat modern. #100 is literally the plot of a Curb episode.
Or maybe you’re just cherry picking the ones that don’t hold up 🤔😅
Maybe the true Everett was the cherry picking we did along the way.
Ooh, it’s a bit Tintin isn’t it?
It portrays black people in a very racist way.
That’s not unique to one writer. That’s almost all literature from the time period, unless it had a black author. You would have to read books by W.E.B. DuBois, or maybe Huckleberry Finn, for good portrayals of black people in literature.
Wild that there was a point in history you could get close enough to a zoo critter to hand feed (or harass) it. World really was a simpler place in those days.
A zoo used to be little more than animals in cages put on display for public viewing. The idea is a modernization of the menageries that used to be kept by nobility, and the first public zoos were just these menageries opened to the public:
Until the early 19th century, the function of the zoo was often to symbolize royal power, like King Louis XIV’s menagerie at Versailles. Major cities in Europe set up zoos in the 19th century, usually using London and Paris as models. The transition was made from princely menageries designed to entertain high society with strange novelties into public zoological gardens. (ref)
Depends on the animal. I know a decent zoo that has just simple waist-high walls around the porcupines and raccoon dogs for example.
They have space, but they can get pretty close. I guess a complete idiot with a cane could probably harass them, until someone stops them like “what the hell, asshole”. Or you know, until Everett True comes and causes permanent spine damage to them.
Obviously animals like bears, apes and big felines can’t get that close to people.
True to himself.
OO-OO-OOOCK!!!
Man’s getting railed (figuratively and literally)
Holy fucking shit is that for real?
No, it’s a comic strip. Gosh.
No, it’s fortunately no longer a thing at any zoo I’ve been to…probably only because the animals have larger cages and are behind solid glass instead of bars…
The big enclosures with moats are better for everyone. View is unobstructed by bars, animals can get some sunshine and swimming.
Ricin pellet in the point of the umbrella. Classic move.
Consequently, the Man with the Yellow Hat changed his ways.
Ha! Monkey Man make a noise when you poke it.
What is that animal? Is it a bear?? It doesn’t quite look like any animal
I think it’s a bear.
Looks like a giant ground sloth. I know this cartoon is old, but not that old
According to Rimworld, they’re coming back.
