Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for September 02, 2020

Wow, OMG!

Black Legs Matter….

the copyright says 1991 but somehow I think this non p/c strip is much older than that.

I’m amazed this got past the editor.

This is the first time I’ve seen this one.

Ah..er… um… :-\

But realize as you look at this with 21st century eyes and sensibilities, this is from a very different time…

Double hat launch!

Times sure change! Once upon a time, this would have been funnier because of the stereotype. Now, I don’t think it matters.

racist caricatures should not be printed in the comics

I bet the text in panel 1 was changed from the original. “Sam the colored man” was hardly the vernacular of the day.

Wow, I’m surprised they get away with making a joke based on phantom limb syndrome. As many people have already pointed out, that’s no longer PC.

This is historical such as the movies and television, but it is still offensive.

Wow.

Before the 1960s “colored” was the polite term. They’re friendly with him & want to help. His illiterate dialect is a defense mechanism left over from the times when reading could get him hung. His marital difficulties are sadly his own. Cops aren’t typically sympathetic to battered husbands.

I agree, very much older!

This is surely quite old, and I’d like it if they would include the original publication date, as they do for Nancy Classics. Comics Kingdom used to put original dates on their vintage strips, but they stopped the practice. As a fan of much of the vintage work, I like seeing the dates for the historical context they provide.

In the 1990s, DC Comics published hardcover editions reprinting the earliest issues of Superman and many other characters. On the copyright page of at least one such volume, they included a disclaimer about the racism to be found in those old stories, pointing out that they were not censoring anything in the reprints, in the interest of historical accuracy. All well and good.

What I found somewhat laughable was that they felt the need to point out that the ads contained in those reprints were roughly 50 years old, that the terms and conditions were valid when the ads first appeared, but that they were no longer valid today. Guess the lawyers got to them.

OMG!

Naturally they want to help, but would they be able to help outside of ice, aspirin and a cool damp cloth?

Thanks a good one. Glad they did not censor it. Of course traditionally colored was the respectful way to refer to a black person. Of course calling him Sam the colored man seems weird.