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COMICS WITH PROBLEMS issue #11
Presenting TWO DIABETES COMICS
KEITH AND ELLEN WIN A NEW LOOK ON LIFE! (1954)
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KEITH AND TOMMY CLIMB TO A NEW LIFE (1966)
Free comics from Eli Lilly and Company (drug company). The only comic series (and comic books, for that matter) specifically about diabetes known to exist. First issue stars Kieth as a young child in need of help, second issue stars Kieth as a teenager and camp counsellor, now a role model to younger diabetic boys.
Each issue: 16 pages distributed to parents by doctors and insulin salesmen.
PROBLEM(s) DEALT WITH: Diabetes, Emotions, Needles, Tennis, Hiking.
Ethan |
11.02.06 - 1:04 am | #
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Wow. I like how Ellen is given that engine speech without any regards for gender stereotypes. Meanwhile, in the latter comic, we're treated Keith thinking, "Well, if an old girl can do it." Talk about a step backwards.
LM | Homepage |
11.12.06 - 6:15 pm | #
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http://thumbsnap.com/v/iGyw9TgC.gif
Got to say, the front cover you did for this issue kind of kicks Roy Lichtenstein's ass.
Tom |
12.01.06 - 11:48 am | #
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You know I don't mean to be an asshole, but it's interesting to note that all the kids in this are healthy, thin, and athletic. No fat people. Right?
I wonder, with childhood obesity being the problem it is now, if they made another comic book like this today it wouldn't be about skinny kids finding the courage to take insulin so they could mountain climb and play tennis, but instead it would be about putting down the chocolate bars, dr pepper and xbox so they could avoid diabetes in the first place. Non-obese childhood onset diabetes is pretty damn rare, I take it.
Of course, this is also a comic book from a pharmaceutical company - so why the hell would they say that? Keep on eatin, kids! Money to be made!
Thurber Madison |
01.23.07 - 10:59 am | #
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As a type 1 diabetic, I found these incredibly amusing.
And Thurber Madison, your comment is incredibly uneducated. Juvenile Onset diabetes, or type 1 diabetes is the Diabetes presented in these comics. It used to be the most common. Sadly with the rise of obesity, type 2 (or adult onset) is better known. Those with type 1 diabetes' pancreases have completely quit functioning while those with type 2's pancreas cannot produce enough insulin for their body. Of course these kids are in shape. It's not their fault they're diabetic, it's bad genes. So don't act like food and xbox is to blame for all Diabetics problems because that is hardly the case/
Megan |
01.26.07 - 2:46 am | #
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As a late-blooming Type 1 (I got it at the ripe old age of 23) I read these comics and thought, "Thank Gawd I don't live in the fifties!" The boiling, the "Work the plunger back and forth", the swabbing, the urine testing - blessed are the cartridges, disposable needles and digital blood-glucose testing machines.
So although I remain a staunch anticorporate Guardianista, I have to say, "Thank you, Mister Lilly."
Plus, bonus points for the dipsomaniacally ruddy-faced doctor on page 10, leaning over our innocent young heroine with the words, "Now, let's look at the way YOUR engine works..."
Paul |
01.28.07 - 11:45 am | #
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Thurber Madison, your comment is incredibly uneducated.
Ha, and indeed you are right! Apologies for that. I really was talking out of my ass there, which is stupid all the more with an entire Internet here in front of me to look up simple medical details before I fart out some bullshit. With no sarcasm implied, thank you for the correction, and apologies.
I blame the media!
I guess ... in an effort to not look like a complete boneheaded prick ... we could say my comments about xbox and chocolate apply to a plot treatment for a comic book about Type 2? Eh??? HOLLYWOOD, EMAIL ME!
Sincere apologies though. And I really liked what you wrote.
Thurber Madison |
01.31.07 - 11:21 am | #
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Is it just my twisted imagination or is there a heavily sexual atmosphere between Tommy and Keith???
moi |
02.14.07 - 9:44 am | #
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Ha, I see it too!
heavy sexual atmosphere |
02.14.07 - 12:39 pm | #
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Regarding the first comic: I can't help but think that the Andersons may have been a bit remiss in that they apparently didn't send their son to a doctor, and instead let him mope around hopelessly once the diagnosis of diabetes was miraculously delivered.
It becomes apparent that he knows nothing of the nature of the disease nor is he acquainted with the concept of insulin shots. It's hardly surprising that he didn't have enough energy to get up and go outside.
That one guy |
03.17.07 - 8:39 pm | #
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YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT BETWEEN MEALS!
Thanks, Captain Downer. Though Timmy just tosses away the sandwich, guaranteeing Keith's death from insulin overdose when, later in the strip, it looks like he twists his ankle.
Jonathan |
07.13.07 - 3:40 am | #
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Golly gee gosh
Liz |
10.09.07 - 7:18 pm | #
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it's easy, keith! all you have to do is LONG COMPLICATED STERILIZATION RITUAL.
The writers got kind of lazy, it looks like they copied instructions from the syringe box or something. "Then you invert bottle and syringe and withdraw specified dosage." nobody talks like that.
alicia |
01.04.09 - 12:55 pm | #
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