BARNACLE PRESS

This makes our mission of archiving the history of comics a fraught endeavor. We want to celebrate the creativity and wonder of this art form without bowdlerization or ignoring uncomfortable truths about our forebears, but we also don't want to see any of our stuff passed around on neanderthal message boards as some tribute to the good old days when mocking people for their being was de rigueur. In the end, we leave the very worst stuff to languish in the databases, completionist inclinations be damned... But that doesn't mean that you won't run into some material which is patently (and rightly!) unacceptable to modern mores. We make no excuses for these strips. Yes, they were of their time, but their time could be pretty awful. Ethnic humor was THE mode in the 19th and early 20th century, and the funnies are rife with it. Some we recognize as racist, like depictions of Blacks and Asians, but there are other stereotyped caricatures of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Italians, that aren't..