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Cake day: December 11th, 2024

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    It all started innocently enough. I hadn’t thought much about cows in my entire life. They were nice animals, both on and off the dinner table. And that about sums up my attitude toward them. And then it happened.

    In May of 1980, I drew the cartoon at left. When I finished, I sat back and stared at my little creation. Something moved me. This was more that just a cow—this was an entire career I was looking at. As the following pages indicate, I should have just called this thing The Cow Side and forgot about it.











  • Looks like this came from a publication I haven’t heard of before, called Evergreen Review. They’ve been around a while, this is from the June 1967 issue:

    They’ve gone defunct a few times since then, but they’ve come back and they’re still around: https://evergreenreview.com/

    They’ve published some interesting pieces of history, here’s the start of one:

    God’s Judgment of White America

    Malcolm X

    On December 1, 1963, about two weeks after President Kennedy’s assassination, Malcolm X addressed a public rally at Manhattan Center in New York City.

    Originally, the speaker was to have been Mr. Elijah Muhammad, but the Muslim leader canceled his plans and Malcolm X spoke in his place. The following is the second half of the speech that he gave. At the time, the ideas expressed were considered harshly extremist, yet time has made Malcolm X’s position the position of many American black men today.

    In his Autobiography, Malcolm X tells how Mr. Muhammad issued two directives that Muslim ministers were to refrain from discussing President Kennedy’s assassination. It was right after this speech that Malcolm X, in a question-and-answer period, made the remark that led to his suspension as a Muslim minister. In answer to the question, ''What do you think about President Kennedy’s assassination? What is your opinion?" Malcolm X answered, “without a second thought,” as he puts it in his Autobiography, that he saw it as a case of “the chickens coming home to roost,” a remark which made headlines throughout the country. Immediately afterward, Malcolm X was suspended by Elijah Muhammad and directed to stop speaking for ninety days. Soon after, his break with the Muslims was complete and permanent.

    The speech has never appeared anywhere before. It is taken from Malcolm X’s own hand corrected copy.

    White America is doomed! Death and devastating destruction hang at this very moment in the skies over America. But why must her divine execution take place? Is it too late for her to avoid this catastrophe?

    Here’s an out-of-context bit from another one, to fit this community:

    THE KID:

    I’m not raping you.