Ethan Persoff’s posted a George Wallace pro-segregation comic from the 1960′s.

5 Comments | Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Filed under: Outbound Linkage


I feel like I’ve shared this before, but Tim Leong linked to it on Twitter and I was reminded of how fascinating and infuriating this piece of Americana is. Apparently you can do an entire Chick-style tract about segregation and how great it is without having a single black person appear on the pages. Metafiction!

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5 Comments on “Ethan Persoff’s posted a George Wallace pro-segregation comic from the 1960′s.”

  1. 1 Evan Waters said at 10:19 am on January 25th, 2010:

    I think this has been posted before somewhere- Newsarama maybe, but it was a while ago.

    The interesting thing about it is that not only are there no black people in it, they’re not even referred to. The whole issue is couched in metaphor (“states’ rights”) so that nobody is reminded of the actual human impact.

    The similarity to the tactics of gay marriage opponents is, well, not very hard to spot.

  2. 2 Craig said at 12:06 pm on January 25th, 2010:

    this is some pretty amazing (and terrible) propaganda by way of comic books, but I still don’t think it’s quite as terrible as the recent one on Ronald Reagan: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=4052&page=preview what a piece of garbage.

  3. 3 Casey Bohn said at 12:29 am on January 26th, 2010:

    George Wallace’s B-29 was named “The Sentimental Journey.” There’s some irony in there somewhere, I just know it.

  4. 4 K. Thor Jensen said at 5:58 pm on January 26th, 2010:

    Hey, bro, it’s Ethan Persoff, not Evan Pearson. JSYK.

  5. 5 Kevin Church said at 12:49 am on January 27th, 2010:

    What was going on IN MY HEAD? Wow.