# Lesbian mothers' art work **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 25, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795 "2000-04-25T05:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/1 "2000-04-25T05:25:00Z")
I was surprised to see the Slug Signorino drawing in this week’s e-column: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000421.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000421.html) The Chicago Reader, Cecil’s home paper, ran the column on 4/20, re-using artwork from the “no-income-tax-because-Ohio-wasn’t-a-state-part-II” column (also reprinted in one of the books – “Triumph of,” if I recall correctly, which would be a rare occurance). So what gives? Offended lesbians in Chicago? Missed art deadlines? Illustration too big for the space? Two feet of snow on the tracks? (Oops, sorry, wrong thread…) * * * “The dawn of a new era is felt and not measured.” Walter Lord ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/2 "2000-04-25T05:27:00Z")
Here’s a link to the art work that did run in the Reader (the words within the art were changed appropriately) ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/3 "2000-04-25T05:28:00Z")
Let’s try that again… and this time, include the link… [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970516.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970516.html) (creeping off in embarrassment…) * * * “The dawn of a new era is felt and not measured.” Walter Lord ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/4 "2000-04-25T13:23:00Z")
I’m not terribly impressed with the lesbian artwork, myself, but Slug has his own style which usually works with Cecil’s style. I’d love to see his renderings of blacks or Asians sometime, tho, just to compare. Esprix * * * Evidently, I rock. [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nurlman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Nurlman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nurlman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/5 "2000-04-25T18:42:00Z")
Well, Esprix, there’s at least one Slug cartoon of Asians in the _More of the Straight Dope_. You know, the “yellow” book. (Ponder that one for a moment. Now stop.) It’s used in the question about what would happen if all of the Chinese jumped off chairs at once. The cartoon has your standard stereotyped “Chinaman” with the robe, muffler, and long braid. And in the same book, illustrating the “What is a ‘Mojo’?” is a cartoon of a black couple in bed. Exactly what you’d expect-- broad, flat nose, big white saucers for eyes, the whole bit. Say what you want about Slug, but he’s an equal opportunity offender. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/6 "2000-04-25T19:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Nurlman** : > > Say what you want about Slug, but he’s an equal opportunity offender. OK, that answers my question - I can accept that. I’d love to see a self-portrait sometime! 😃 I look at Howard Stern the same way. Esprix * * * Evidently, I rock. [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/7 "2000-04-27T05:08:00Z")
Well… it’s not like Slug’s portraits of whites are what you’d call “flattering.” ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/8 "2000-04-27T12:22:00Z")
Esprix wrote: > [@](#): > > I’d love to see a self-portrait sometime! You’ll want to check “Return of the Straight Dope” (that’s the red book) p. 164. I’ll leave it to others more learned than me to discuss any significance therein. * * * What is this, some kind of freakout?? ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lesbian-mothers-art-work/1795/9 "2000-04-27T19:33:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by CKDextHavn: > **Well… it’s not like Slug’s portraits of whites are what you’d call "flattering."** You don’t think representing Cecil as a turkey in a mortarboard is flattering? * * * Bragging mode on: **I got my CNE!** Bragging mode off.