Right-Wing History of the Comics Page

Here's something you don't see every day: a survey of current conservative cartoonists complete with a comic strip history that favors strips that fall under this mode of political expression. This is a strange way of looking at the comics page not for orientation but for degree of invective. Everything is viewed almost solely in terms of friends and enemies, and returning political fire is a greater good than doing so in an artistically satisfying manner. Where it gets kind of loopy is in the presumption that no one might really prefer Prickly City to Mallard Fillmore for anything other than a (demonstrably false) perception of easier to grapple with politics, and that's saying something in an article that treats Al Capp's later work as political awakening rather than a slow deterioration. But it's no stretch to concede that a lot of people think in these cultural war terms all the time, even when parsing the funnies.

1931 Little Orphan Annie panel from Harold Gray, the patron saint of conservative comics
 
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