This was made in 1997 as a show of solidarity with the Space Moose web comic after the author's student newspaper refused to run a strip called "Clobberin' Time" that depicted the strip's protagonists violently ambushing a group of protesting lesbians. (Link provided for the sake of completeness).
My drawing depicts the rejected comic strip as a rampaging gun-toting monster inflicting real harm on people, rather than just an artistic expression that might hurt somebody's feelings.
Looking back, I think the original strip was misogynistic garbage and the newspaper had every right not to run it. I've seen enough stuff like this in the intervening years to see it for what it really was — not an intellectual exercise poking at the boundaries of good taste in the name of free speech, but rather a privileged college bro punching down on women, particularly lesbians, and fantasizing about violently putting them in their place.
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This was made in 1997 as a show of solidarity with the Space Moose web comic after the author's student newspaper refused to run a strip called "Clobberin' Time" that depicted the strip's protagonists violently ambushing a group of protesting lesbians. (Link provided for the sake of completeness).
My drawing depicts the rejected comic strip as a rampaging gun-toting monster inflicting real harm on people, rather than just an artistic expression that might hurt somebody's feelings.
Looking back, I think the original strip was misogynistic garbage and the newspaper had every right not to run it. I've seen enough stuff like this in the intervening years to see it for what it really was — not an intellectual exercise poking at the boundaries of good taste in the name of free speech, but rather a privileged college bro punching down on women, particularly lesbians, and fantasizing about violently putting them in their place.