Religion in the Comics - 51

[Cartoonist]

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We start a new half century of RITC with an installment of Betty & Bob from the pages of Catholic Comics volume 3 number 8, cover dated May 1949.



Junipero has been discussed here before. Most Native Americans hold a low opinion of these missions. I doubt if many hold the belief that the fathers saved the Indians.

[mr blur]

1. Yes, it's really really lucky that the Catholics got there when they did,

before the poor natives died of starvation.

Do you think Betty and Bob are supposed to be typical Catholic children? They seem pretty fucking stupid. Bob's too dumb art to work out how to climb onto the cart without instructions.Why are they wearing the same shirt? Are they cross-dressers? Pansexual?

I wonder how they fared in Hollywood Babylon?

[Major Nikon]

3. Looks like a very bad pun on the "upset the apple cart" idiom

Catholics with a sense of humor don't seem to last in the church.

[progressoid]

6. Maybe they were both in the marching band?

[onager]

2. Pidgeons?

The actor Walter and his family? Yeah, I'm nitpicking, but that's a really stupid error.

Everybody in here probably know this, but just in case: "saving" the Indians meant herding them together at the missions, where they died wholesale of European diseases, overwork, etc.

The individual tribes completely lost their identities. Eventually they were just all lumped together under the name "mission tribes" or "mission bands."

I lived pretty near the San Fernando Mission in Los Angeles, site of this monument. It should give you some idea of how that whole "saving" process worked out:

[RussBLib]

4. "our history books say the fathers saved the Indians"

My history book didn't say that.

In mine, the Indians were simply relentless savages who killed a lot of white settlers and liked to scalp women, especially blonde women. I wonder what today's history books look like?

Native American genocide is one of the sad chapters in the real history book, wherever that is.

[Lordquinton]

5. That pine in the first panel

Put a lot of work into that one.