So did you arrange this one, or is it some weird part of a whole taken out of context… very, very strange. The last panel is quite appetizing, if unsettling.
I didn’t do a lot of editing on this one just some image restoration and scaling down of the last panel (in the original comic book it took up two thirds of the page). It can be very jarring to be flipping through an old humor comic filled with inoffensive funny animal stories and turn the page to see something as casually and surreally racist as the comic this was taken from (“Pancakes”, Foxy Fagan #2, March 1947). I’m sure the men behind this comic, artist Harvey Eisenberg and writer Joe Barbera*, were not bigots and at the time thought it was standard comedic territory but it’s pretty mind boggling now to think something like this would be considered okay (the original exclamation in the last panel was, with original spelling, “It’s de land ob watermelon!”) and doubly so since this was a comic aimed primarily at children.
* Eisenberg was a very good humor comic artist of the 1940s-60s and Joe Barbera was the Joe Barbera of Hanna-Barbera fame. Pertinently, Barbera’s early Tom and Jerry cartoons featured the stereotypical character Mammy Two Shoes whose original dialog has since been redubbed to remove the character’s use of potentially offensive dialect. Eisenberg, incidentally, was the artist of many Tom and Jerry comic stories.
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So did you arrange this one, or is it some weird part of a whole taken out of context… very, very strange. The last panel is quite appetizing, if unsettling.
I didn’t do a lot of editing on this one just some image restoration and scaling down of the last panel (in the original comic book it took up two thirds of the page). It can be very jarring to be flipping through an old humor comic filled with inoffensive funny animal stories and turn the page to see something as casually and surreally racist as the comic this was taken from (“Pancakes”, Foxy Fagan #2, March 1947). I’m sure the men behind this comic, artist Harvey Eisenberg and writer Joe Barbera*, were not bigots and at the time thought it was standard comedic territory but it’s pretty mind boggling now to think something like this would be considered okay (the original exclamation in the last panel was, with original spelling, “It’s de land ob watermelon!”) and doubly so since this was a comic aimed primarily at children.
* Eisenberg was a very good humor comic artist of the 1940s-60s and Joe Barbera was the Joe Barbera of Hanna-Barbera fame. Pertinently, Barbera’s early Tom and Jerry cartoons featured the stereotypical character Mammy Two Shoes whose original dialog has since been redubbed to remove the character’s use of potentially offensive dialect. Eisenberg, incidentally, was the artist of many Tom and Jerry comic stories.