That BC Comic Strip

Factual Questions
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      • Is it available online anywhere? I saw a glimpse of it on the TV news, but the official site doesn’t have it. They show another one instead. - MC
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I don’t know if it is available online. I was kind of hoping that a thread would arise here about it, but surely not in this forum.

Considering how potentially incendiary it is to some people, I’d pray this thread is moved to the Pit, so that the strip can be discussed as people see fit.

Aside from that? I’m extremely curious to see how many papers that normally carry it did NOT carry it today, and how many placed it into the Editorial Page. How does one find out such things?

Cartooniverse

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Yes, seems to be on the site of the Jewish Defense League, which is linked to in this thread in Great Debates.

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BC cartoon incendiary to some people?

Am I missing something here or is there some other BC cartoon around ?

Or does it have some other cultural meaning to Americans ?

???

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Ah, caught up in the twilight world of simulposts.

Guess I haven’t ever noticed any of the Christian thing in BC before but then its some years since I saw any of it, has it changed?

Maybe they don’t print some of that stuff in UK papers.

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I just love the irony of a strip about prehistoric cavemen entitled “B.C.” which as far as I know means “before christ” extolling the virtues of Jesus. The strip itself has seemed pretty unfunny and insipid for at least the last 20 years.

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It has changed quite a bit, besides the heavy-handed witnessing. The jokes are lame now that he puts in so many modern references when these are supposed to be prehistoric characters.

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Here I go again, actually responding to the O.P.

I read online comics at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/comics/ and they carry B.C., I clicked on it (8:52 EDT, 4/15) and got the 4/14 strip, but the 4/15 strip is on the archive menu.

I must say, it is obviously bigotted, IMHO.

Disclaimer: I haven’t read B.C. regularly in decades. I don’t think I missed anything.

FtG aka GLP

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For Johnny Hart’s perspective on his cartoon see

http://www.creators.com/comics/JHStatement.php4

A Jew comments on it:

http://www.creators.com/comics/JStatement.php4

Johnny Hart’s Boss says:

http://www.creators.com/comics/RSNStatement.php4

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I’m in Akron, Ohio, and our paper is of the Knight-Ridder chain. The comic ran in our Sunday funnies today.

I, too, used to like B.C. more in the old days. Heavy-handed is the right phrase for what the religious-oriented threads have become.

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He apparently started his witnessing in about 1990. The strip was funny back in the 70’s. In those days, he took a lot of heat for having female characters known only as “Fat Broad” and “Cute Chick”. I’m still not sure what was so funny about various and sundry byplay always ending in the Fat Broad beating the crap out of the snake, but it worked for some reason.

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They still do have the BC comic strip. It runs daily in the Courier Democrat Gazette in the Russellville Ar. newspaper.

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I’m not sure this thread belongs here, opposed to G.D. But, I’ll throw in and see if it travels away.

I read the links. BobT, once again thank you for excellent link info. Instead of allowing myself a knee-jerk response as I did this morning when I read the strip,I must admit I respect Mr. Hart’s dedication to his faith, and the point of view of the editor of the Jewish Web site as well.

I take no offense.

Cartooniverse ( Bar Mitzvah’d in the oldest Ashkenazic Temple in the United States :smiley: )

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The General Question here was where that particular strip might be found. That question has been answered. If you wish to discuss the merits or lack therof of that strip, there’s already a thread in GD (linkend by Colibri above) for that purpose.