# Newspaper comic about hemp **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000 "2011-11-24T20:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/1 "2011-11-24T20:49:37Z")
This is a longshot, but… 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? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/2 "2011-11-24T21:57:56Z")
Never seen it, but the format sounds a lot like something Tom the Dancing Bug would do. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/3 "2011-11-24T22:02:01Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Never seen it, but the format sounds a lot like something Tom the Dancing Bug would do. I was thinking of putting in the original post “…and it wasn’t Tom the Dancing Bug”. 🙂 It was the same kind of humour as his “Fun Facts” strips. It also reminded me of this classic Penny Arcade comic (regarding Scott McCloud): > **[Magic: It's What's For Dinner - Penny Arcade](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/22/magic-its-whats-for-dinner)** > > Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary. EDIT: The name of the magazine was “Comic Relief”, for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/4 "2011-11-25T16:35:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/5 "2011-11-25T17:18:17Z")
\*\*hogarth \*\*- was the magazine _Comic Reliefs_? 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_). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/6 "2011-11-25T18:22:15Z")
> [@lawoot](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/7 "2012-07-26T17:40:02Z")
[And yet another message board thread reminds me of my favourite hemp quip…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=659797) I don’t suppose this cartoon is ringing any bells with anyone yet, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/8 "2012-07-28T10:27:57Z")
I don’t have a complete run (a few gaps towards the end), but if I have time I’ll look through my Comic Reliefs… ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/9 "2012-07-28T10:31:41Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > “Fun fact: George Washington drove a car made out of hemp!” That’s just a myth. George Washington’s car was made out of tobacco. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/10 "2012-07-30T10:44:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/11 "2012-07-30T10:52:13Z")
It’s from a strip called [Sidewalk Bubblegum](http://www.sidewalkbubblegum.com/hemp%E2%80%A6-for-a-better-tomorrow/). Now bow to my Google-Fu! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/12 "2012-07-30T12:20:35Z")
I was going to suggest that the magazine was _Funny Times_: > **[Funny Times (newspaper)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Times_(newspaper))** > > Funny Times (FT) is an American humor newspaper founded in 1985, and still published as of 2022, by the wife and husband team of Susan Wolpert and Raymond Lesser. Wolpert and Lesser were inspired by The Comic News of Santa Cruz, California, "a monthly journal of progressive editorial cartoons" founded in 1984 by Thom Zajac. FT's political content is often subversive and has a progressive/liberal perspective. > In 1997, Sandee Beyerle came across the office of Funny Times while trying to escape ... 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. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-comic-about-hemp/604000/13 "2012-07-30T13:08:03Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > It’s from a strip called [Sidewalk Bubblegum](http://www.sidewalkbubblegum.com/hemp%E2%80%A6-for-a-better-tomorrow/). Now bow to my Google-Fu! AWESOME!!! How you found it, I haven’t a clue. All my Google attempts were in vain.