It's the Day's Day of Days! Because please please me.
You know, as we watch Russian Guyovitch explain that we should just let the disease rampage, because things would be fine, I'm reminded of Harold Gray bitching about FDR throughout the entire Great Depression, and well, going into WWII, insisting that if Americans just tried a little harder, things would be fine.
Of course, there's a big difference between Gray and Muir's respective brands of wrong-headedness--first, Gray really was a great comic artist, and Little Orphan Annie is a classic.
Second--Little Orphan Annie wasn't made JUST to bludgeon people with Gray's politics. (Even if it wound up doing that quite a bit in that era. All of which illustrates why Day by Day is such a terrible strip, one that seems to be getting exponentially worse every year.
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You're mixing up Chester Gould ("Dick Tracy") with Harold Gray, though honestly the two of them were politically simpatico so it makes a kind of sense. As far as I know, Gould's politics were a little less overt than Gray's, but you can bet he was a law-and-order conservative come the protest era.
ReplyDeleteOf course, for sheer bitterness, both of them paled next to the newly conservative Al Capp, who spent the '60s and '70s fully transforming into a cranky cane-waver.
You're right and I've corrected it.
DeleteAnd yeah, Capp's reactionary turn in the 60s and 70s was well, something... awful.