More comics strips dealing with the recession

Alan Gardner April 23, 2009 1 minute 6 comments

Earlier this month, Bobby Bryant of The State wrote about how the recession is creeping into story-lines of Brenda Starr, Doonesbury, Dilbert and Mary Worth. The latest piece on the topic comes from Maclean’s (Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine) who note economic jokes in Blondie, Hi and Lois, Archie, Beetle Bailey, Wizard of Id, Garfield, Cathy, Marvin and Drabble.

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Ben Rankel

Comics using current events as subject matter? This seems strikingly new and unusual.

Apr 23,2009
Evan Hodgins

I’m pretty sure that everyone in the webcomics world has touched on it too. *cough* http://ofnoobsandmen.com/2009/04/17/be-strong-kazooie/ *cough*

Apr 23,2009
Ben Rankel

I’m sure everyone in every form of media, and in every conversation has touched on it. 🙂

Apr 23,2009
Trevor Kent

I’m sure that it’s the only thing I’ve been hearing about recently.

Apr 24,2009
Garey Mckee

Yes I’d say it’s only natural for the comics, or any entertainment media, to reflect the environment around them.

But that pendulum also swings in the other direction, where entertainment media altogether avoids the heady realities of the times to offer purely escapist entertainment.

Apr 24,2009
B.J. Dewey

Gary,

It’s not only “natural” but smart – provided cartoonists (including myself) can somehow manage to make readers laugh over a major recession resulting from the worst financial and economic crises since the Great Depression (not to mention its global reach).

Apr 30,2009

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More comics strips dealing with the recession

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