Personal Hygiene is Important

It's a metaphor for something

Secretly, the house hated Betsy

Outdated Pop Culture Reference

Mock the Past: Bonus Content

An extra one for Saturday. Why were people like that 70 years ago? This might have something to do with it:

Mock the Past: And Finally...

Draw your own conclusions.

Mock the Past: Vintage Sexism

Well that's... better?

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 3

Um, yeah. Wow. I'm... I'm just going to stop with the vintage racism now.

Let's instead lighten the mood by pointing out that this image (the first panel of a comic strip entitled "Sambo, Sue and Jolly Golly", by the way) and the two before it all came from the following 1940 children's annual:



Uncle Jack's Joy-Book? Enough of the unsavoury old-time prejudice -- let's get back to some good, clean paedophile references!

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 2

From offensive Asian stereotypes to offensive African stereotypes:



I should mention that this one is from the same book as yesterday's -- you didn't have to look far for your racism in the 40s.

Mock the Past: Vintage Racism 1

Something different this week: time to offload a pile of images that best serve as a reminder that the past is indeed another country. A country where this sort of thing is par for the course:



It gets worse.

Famly Values

Return to the Tree

Well, the first one has received more attention than any other comic I've done -- I figure it deserved a sequel.