“I’ve always loved to see my stuff in print, but I was on the horns of a dilemma,” he wrote. “Did I dare to publish the cartoons under my own name when my job was at risk if the university ever noticed that I worked in the most disgraceful of all media — the awful COMIC BOOK?”
Instead, he created the ridiculous-sounding pen name Foolbert Sturgeon, which reminded him vaguely of Gilbert Shelton. Rising through the ranks of academia...
He taught studio art at the University of Missouri.
... he continued publishing Jesus strips. “I kind of liked the anonymity of it — there wasn’t anything respectable about it, so you didn’t have to be careful about what you said.... And of course, as a university professor, and as a painter, and as an ‘authority’ — as a role model — you do have to be careful about what you say.... If I’d stuck by my guns maybe I’d be out of a job, disinherited, back in New York (not Texas, for sure) and dead by now.... But I ain’t apologizing. Who would I apologize to? God and Jesus? Why would they care?”
ADDED: This got me thinking about the life of pseudonymity. Did I dare to publish this blog under my own name when my job was at risk when the university noticed that I worked in the most disgraceful of all media — the awful BLOG?
On my second day of blogging, the day I decided to call this blog "Althouse," I said: "People who know me will eventually find this blog, and it's good to remember that what one writes in public counts against (or for) your reputation."
There is a middle ground, of course, where you have a pen name that expresses that the author is a creation of a human being who lives a full and interconnected life in the real word. That creation is a fictional character. It expresses the author's intent to get some distance and freedom. That can serve his purposes even when people know he wrote it. It worked for Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell... Dr. Seuss....
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Stunning and/or brave.
So, the biblical epics were right? Jesus really did have blonde highlights and blue eyes!
So the fear was not the creation of blasphemous material mocking God and Jesus, but instead was dabbling in comic books?
Clearly one of Throat Warbler Mangrove's many acquaintances.
It used to be that Americans didn't have an identity card, and it was a good joke on foreigners that they found this surprising.
"... as I remember it, Billy the Kid, alias Billy the Boy, was the central figure. At any rate, two strangers had turned up in a small Western town and their actions had aroused the suspicions of a group of respectable citizens, who forthwith called on the sheriff to complain about the newcomers. The sheriff listened gravely for a while, got up and buckled on his gun belt, and said, ‘Alors, je vais demander ses cartes d’identité!’ There are few things, in any literature, that have ever given me a greater thrill than coming across that line."
Wild Bird Hickok and His Friends, Thurber
I think comic books have been valued as art since at least the 70s. There was a high/low struggle before that involving the big celebrities of Pop Art, but I think it was quickly resolved into respecting people like R. Crumb.
Jesus Involved In Spectacular Five-Donkey Crash After Fleeing At High Speed In Desperate Bid To Avoid Second RUI
Jesus had no ID?! I guess he would be refused admittance into government buildings, the DNC or the Met Gala. At least he could vote.
Right. Jesus, like black people, was not sharp enough to get a photo ID. Ha ha ha.
I don't know why Jesus insisted on walking or riding a donkey everywhere. Why didn't he just take the subway?
Oh look stupid comic book artist, saying stupid things about Jesus in a stupid newspaper written by stupid Democrats.
How entertaining.
I’m shocked the New York Times doesn’t wanna talk about what’s going on in Beijing right now
Does he actually name the hypocrites?
I’ve played for 5 denominations and I haven’t met them yet.
The strawman conservative religious person is a cartoon figment of the left’s imagination.
For those who don’t think that humanity has made incredible good faith strides to help the poor and end hunger, here’s the reality. Poverty has decreased from 40% in 1980 to 8% today. Hunger has declined from 21% to 7%. These are enormous victories in the struggle to improve human life. We did it. Horray for us!
Jesus was old school.
We did it. Horray for us!
Assuming that your numbers are correct. How much does can the drop be attributed to U.S. Federal Government programs like USAID? You do remember that Trump and Musk gutted most humanitarian aid.
When you perform miracles you don’t need an ID.
“How much does can the drop be attributed to U.S. Federal Government programs like USAID?”
The AID part of that is mostly fictional. USAID is the demonstration arm of the CIA in destabilizing foreign countries. During the Salvadoran civil war, it was the U.S. conduit for funding the death squads. The social projects are cover for this. So, no, it wasn’t USAID.
Free markets raised people out of poverty. USAID had nothing to do with it.
The real driver of increased wealth is societies like the Philippines and Vietnam getting their acts together and solving their own problems. The real driver that defeated world hunger was the Green Revolution. Tech.
RSM - you misspelled Mr. Luxury Yacht.
Growing up in DR, "paquitos" were considered low brow literature.
ai: "Yes, "Paquito" can mean comic book, but specifically as a historical product name and regional slang in parts of Latin America.... Because of the massive export of Mexican media, the brand name turned into a generic term for any comic book in certain Caribbean and Latin American countries, most notably the Dominican Republic...
In Dominican culture, any individual comic book—whether it featured Archie, Condorito, Superman, or Disney characters—was universally called a "paquito".
We weren't allowed to read them.
In my 8th Circuit case that I argued this week, I referred to the place of amusement's admission policy as "show-us-your-papers-and-get-in-free." I said it was unAmerican.
In other news, Claudine Longet, killer of Spider Sabich, died yesterday at Age 84.
I learned how to read from comic books. A corner grocery store in my hood (Chicago's First Ward, a mobbed-up nabe) had these plastic bags with 3 comics each, with the covers missing, for like a quarter. I figured out much later in life that these were illegally-resold remainders. Anyway, I would devour them. Eventually my mom got me subscriptions to the new comics.
Certainly affected my approach to many things. CC, JSM
I must take this occasion to get on my hobby horse: I do not like restagings of biblical stories in modern settings. Because the modern world only exists because of Judeo-Christian-Islamic monotheism. The concept that every soul is equal before God leads to the concepts that every vote is worth the same, every dollar is worth the same, and every idea must be subjected to the same testing on its own merits, not the standing of the speaker. These concepts lead to modern technology and civilization.
So if you have Jesus arrested by police and put in a cruiser: police only exist because of Peel's Principles, and Peel was a Christian. Cars only exist because of a chain of scientific discoveries and market breakthrus that owe their occurrence to Muslim and Christian intellectual exploration, and Protestant capitalism, ie, to JC himself. Kind of puts the cart before the horse.
But I am a party pooper like that. Sorry. CC, JSM
USAID as a cover for color revolutions and destabilizing a country was regarded as unquestionable truth by the left back during the Vietnam War and the Salvadoran civil war. It’s interesting that the left has completely discarded this, and disparaging USAID is now seen as “right wing.”
Nothing against the guy but he was just a typical libtard. That's why he was allowed to remain anonymous and got a good NYTs obit. He was a "revered college professor".
No doubt he was a good illustator.
Freder Frederson said...
We did it. Horray for us!
Assuming that your numbers are correct. How much does can the drop be attributed to U.S. Federal Government programs like USAID? You do remember that Trump and Musk gutted most humanitarian aid
lol
Freder thinks “government aid” raised a single person out of poverty.
Capitalism and private property have raised billions out of poverty.
Government enforces poverty. Just look at the democrat controlled cities like LA.
Freder is stupid enough to be a Democrat.
Assuming that your numbers are correct. How much does can the drop be attributed to U.S. Federal Government programs like USAID? You do remember that Trump and Musk gutted most humanitarian aid.
Right--all of a sudden there have been massive increases in starvation and disease because those USAID bucks stopped flowing.
If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I can sell at a discount...
I admit that I am highly amused by a few Jesus AI reels.
Like the one where he's at a swim meet and instead of swimming he just runs over the water and easily wins.
I always find it humorous the disdain in some quarters for shining shoes. The reason you polish your shoes is to protect them from the elements, to waterproof them, to protect the material. It's very much used to be a normal practical thing to do.
Anonymity or a chance at fame per my brilliance? What an enigma! Enigmatic. E.n.i.g.m.a.
Perplexed,
Enigma
eLocke said...
"RSM - you misspelled Mr. Luxury Yacht."
Damn autocorrect!
More like a lot of 'wallets of warlocks got light'
Warlords and oligarchs
A secure facility requires facility you know leave to ceasar
Security, how is that hypocritical
I polished my sneakers but it didn't make them more weatherproof. Water came in from puddles I stepped in. And when I came in from my walk in the rain - oh, my! Well, that carpet was old, anyhow.
Do you think the NYT will ever give a glowing review of Stonetoss' work?
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