I used to occasionally buy a magazine (in the mid-to-late '90s, I think) that collected various newspaper comics and editorial cartoons (e.g. Ted Rall, This Modern World, and others I can’t remember).
In one of those issues, I saw a particular comic that was a spoof of hemp advocates. It was in the form of kind of a “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” or other pseudo-educational comic strip. There were four panels arranged in a square, and one of those panels said something like:
“Fun fact: George Washington drove a car made out of hemp!”
Does anyone have a clue what this might have been?
Well, damn. A year ago I could have helped you (in theory), because I had all the Comic Reliefs archived in boxes in my garage. But I recycled them during the last clean-up. Sorry.
I’ll send this to a friend of mine - we’ve always pointed out to each other comic-on-comic parodies. For twenty years we’ve quoted one stupid comic to each other (a parody of Beetle Bailey called Beetle Toast).
Heh…I knew it was a long shot. I think the issue would have been in the 1995-1997 range.
bup: Yes, it was in an issue of Comic Relief. But it wasn’t exactly a parody of another existing strip, I don’t think; more just a jab at hemp boosters spouting out dubious factoids.
Well, I spent an enjoyable 2 or 3 hours last night browsing through old copies of Comic Relief - lots of great stuff I had completely forgotten about!
But I didn’t find the cartoon you’re looking for, I’m afraid.
I was going to suggest that the magazine was Funny Times:
Apparently there were two very similar such magazines which reprinted recent short comics and (at least in the case of Funny Times) humorous articles, and both tended toward liberal opinions in what they printed. Funny Times is still being published. I presume Comic Relief has folded.
