COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #26 - 1969 GYNECOLOGY LAUNDROMAT
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Comics With Problems #26 and a Tijuana Update |
Item Number One:
For this month's problem we have something of serious value to sociologists and other researchers --as well as just something for pure lovers of the stilted and strange-- as this is one of the oddest topics to ever be discussed in a vintage comic book. This is a 1969 item from the American Cancer Society discussing Pap Smears. Exclamation Point! Extremely low test-market distribution on a document that I'm sure VERY few people kept around, and even fewer still know about. An Instant Problems Classic, we proudly present ... Click to Read.
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Item Number Two: Tijuana Bible Update
We've enjoyed a few notable pieces of critical reaction to our recently unearthed decades-old document, the 1934 George Bush John McCain Tijuana Bible.
First response award goes to WFMU. They refer to the bible as a 'Political Opening', which:
...STILL HAS REPERCUSSIONS TODAY... |
but warn:
"MAY INSPIRE YOU TO HAVE SOME VERY DIRTY THOUGHTS DURING THE UPCOMING REPUBLICAN CONVENTION" (link) |
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL, We should also acknowledge thanks for first week coverage to: PCL Linkdrop, Linkfilter, Mightgodking, Tom Spurgeon, Mack White, Nick Douglas, The self-described Almighty Rev. Clay, Linkswarm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the Turkish site ETRAFTA, as well as a knod to risque sites sensibleerection and boredgayboy. It should be no surprise to the Republican Party that this item has also garnered the largest traffic from the gay community than any item ever posted here. Hello and welcome to anyone new here for the first time. Hi John.
Continuing...
Best regards here go to Chris Hall of Literate Perversions and Sex In The Public Square, who surprisingly states:
Ethan Persoff's personal website is one of the best rationalizations for the existence of the Internet. In addition to being a talented cartoonist himself, Persoff has compiled a fascinating archive of comics history that includes some incredible specimens of pop culture that typically falls through the cracks.
The beauty of Persoff's site is that he's compiled a genuine history of the American psyche through the twentieth century, one that preserves all our fears and neuroses about sex, about drugs, about the racial "others" who are invariably coming to destroy our lifestyle one way or another. The stuff that he's preserved and made available is indispensable to an honest look at who we are and how we got here and what kind of stuff is still squirming around in our cultural group mind. So much of the recent election cycle makes so much more sense if you look through the propaganda and health comics on Ethan Persoff's web page and realize that paranoia in American discourse isn't the exception. It's the rule. Which is why I hate to say this.
Damn you, Ethan. Damn you to hell. You've really gone too far this time.
The latest item on the site is one of those pieces of forbidden lore, something on a scale with The Necronomicon, which Abdul Ahalzred allegedly wrote with human blood on vellum made from human skin, and which is said to drive strong men mad upon reading it. Already, after glimpsing Ethan's latest, I feel that I might have to hie me unto the asylum in Arkham.
Ethan claims to have found a long-lost Tijuana Bible, a "Lieberman Squeezer" from 1934, starring George W. Bush and John McCain. I don't know where he found it, but it certainly captures the modern relationship between the two men accurately, and I don't know that that's a good thing. Look at the link only if you are of strong mind and moral character, otherwise you put your very reason in jeopardy. |
of the Bible itself, he concludes:
Yes, the comic really is ugly and distasteful, but honestly, it's nowhere near as ugly and distasteful as the face the country has worn for the last eight years. I'm tired of living in fear and hating the way my neighbors and family keep trying to twist the worst parts of America into the best. I can't think of any better way to respond to Republicans than obscenity. |
Thank you Chris.
The very entertaining blogspot Silent Porn Star, describes the artifact with this fine triple of a headline:
OF TIJUANA BIBLES, POLITICS,
& JOHN McCAIN'S BREASTS
and adds this astute statement:
That's one government teat I don't ever want to suck off of. [shudder] |
ELSEWHERE...
In a strange sort of demographic sample, the McCain Bible has found an audience with the sex crowd here, and the political one in Russia - quickly appearing in a number of Russian forums, email lists, and blogs. Combining the McCain Bible with this youtube video, David Ross of Live Journal asks:
what is this f*cking freedom of speach we don't have in russia and they bragg about out there? i am not happy with what's going on in russian media. and wouldn't be happy with this kinda freedom either. |
Finally, award for most enthusiastic goes to Mister Ashton Cruz, whose extremely unworksafe website says of the 74 year old document:
POLITICAL FUCKERY AT IT'S BEST!!!
I don't have any idea the kind of insanity that it takes to come up with shit like this but I thank the gods and goddesses up in heaven for peppering the univerese with perverse artistic fucklings such as the creators of this masterpiece, Presenting The "OBLIGING LADY" - the 1934 Tijuana Bible long sought after by historians as the oldest known document to feature George Bush and John McCain! Here for you posted in it's full hardcore packed glory. Enjoy! |
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Download this emailable pdf of the entire document, send and forward. Thanks.
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