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Rugrats: The (Complete) Newspaper Strips

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D. D. Degg December 8, 2019 1 minute 2 comments

Rugrats: The Newspaper Strips Volume One is coming next week.
Though what it will look like I couldn’t tell you.

Graphic Policy has a preview of, I guess, a vertical version:

They also post the page of cartoonists who contributed to the five year strip.

Creators Syndicate continues to distribute reruns of the strip.

Anime Expressway has everything, and I mean everything,
you need to know about the Rugrats comic strip.

I wonder if they will reprint the controversial Uncle Boris strip.

From Wikipedia:

The series has received several accolades for its Jewish themes…

However, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) criticized the design of Grandpa Boris and charged it with being antisemitic. The controversy erupted when a 1998 Rugrats comic strip was published, featuring Boris in a synagogue reciting the Mourner’s Kaddish. The ADL issued a statement saying that the design resembled Nazi-era depictions of Jews, and the fact that the character was reciting the sacred prayer perverted its solemnity. The Washington Post, the newspaper who published the strip, issued a similar statement in their Editor’s Note section, criticizing Nickelodeon for not showing better judgment in editing the strip.

Though former Nickelodeon president Albie Hecht, a Jew himself, was dumbfounded by the accusation and deemed it absurd, Herb Scannell, president of the company in 1998, responded to the complaints and apologized to ADL.