Commando Collection “Anzacs at War Raises Some Hackles In New Zealand

A collection of war stories from Commando targeted at the Australian and New Zealand markets has alarmed some cultural commentators and educators in that region of the world for its depiction of indigenous people and the names used in reference to them. Ant Sang and Dylan Horrocks provide the cartoonist's perspective. What's interesting to me is that even though the thought gets floated that the book could be used either with allowances for unacceptable imagery from the World War II era or as an example of how certain imagery and designations aren't used any longer, this blog post leads me to believe that the comics in the anthology, while they may depict something from World War II, were all done after 1974. I mean, you can still look at it as a storehouse of archaic views, but you can't look at these stories as being generated during that time, as the article seems to apply.
 
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