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At the zoo [Outbursts of Everett True, 1905-1927)
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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.
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've heard he did actually chill in his later years
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps not PC, but still somewhat modern. #100 is literally the plot of a Curb episode.
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.