As longtime readers of this blog know, I enjoy reading comics. Now and then I stumble across something deaf-related in the comics. Here are two of the latest that I stumbled across..and neither one is politically correct. One is simply old, and the other one not so old but still politically incorrect. It still manages to make me laugh though!
First up: A public service announcement comic strip about the handicapped. Judging from the art style, I am guessing that it is circa early 1960s.
Buzzy Scores One for the Handicapped
Next, we have a humorous teenage superhero, Impulse, trying to talk to someone who turns out to be deaf...and doing something that most of us in the deaf community object to. From Young Justice, May 2001.
Impulse and the Deaf Guy
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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2 comments:
Agreed, the comics are not PC, but unfortunately, that is how a segment of the hearing community sees Deaf people if they do not know any personally.
Go ahead and laugh, for they are so terrible and outdated and horribly presumptive. Perhaps one day we will laugh even harder at how backwardly archaic they have become.
Thanks, Jamie...this is interesting. FYI, the style seems more like late '50s to me...I googled Buzzy and came up with this link http://www.toonopedia.com/buzzy.htm. According to the article Buzzy comics discontinued in 1958.
D.
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