Originally posted by: gopunk
Only Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau demurred.
"We cartoonists are simple folk. We don't write on that cryptic a level. Leave Johnny alone."
anybody else find this sort of interesting coming from trudeau? ok so he isn't that cryptic, but the humor is often more subtle than most other strips. maybe he's trying to tell us something through this contradiction.... 😉
i got that too. but as far as the comic in question goes...
the seemingly over-abundance of crescent moons (not just on the outhouse door, which has a wholly legitimate cause to have a crescent moon), the vertical "slam," what the character said, the date it was published (halfway through ramadan), and the cartoonist's religious background all suggest that the comic could have been against islam. i personally think it is, regardless of what the cartoonist says, because it makes more sense to me than it all being coincidental. plus, it just wasn't funny at all, and it makes more sense to me as an anti-muslim comic than as a regular one.
but as far as everyone else who thinks this is all bullsh!t, i don't care if you disagree with me. you're entitled to your opinion as much as i am to mine. and amused, it's probably true that most of us wouldn't have made the link to this being anti-muslim without the article, but that's ok, because i know that i don't get every reference that comes across, and i'm glad that there are many people out there who challenge me with ideas that i wouldn't have necessarily come across by myself.