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...line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey in 1970. Subsidiary characters popped up in other strips. The movement got an even more important boost when editors drafted black cartoonists and illustrators such as Morrie Turner and Brumsic Brandon Jr., Barbara's father, to create new strips like Wee Pals and Luther, in which blacks were the main characters...
Stark reality and poignant beauty are not often enough seen in the daily paper comics. Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker, the antithesis of the new cartoonists, once said that cartoonists can just barely draw and just barely tell jokes. This may be true in the generic land of "Beetle Bailey," but alternative cartoonists are nothing if not artists...
...counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that "I wanted not only sirens and barking dogs, but I even envisioned a whiff of tear...
...sights and sounds of the civil rights era will surely all be there, but Bailey's olfactory mementos have fortunately proved impractical. Still, this state- and locally funded museum will push the barriers of good taste in its quest to create a sense of historical immediacy and emotional context for a jaded theme-park generation. "We estimate that 60% of those coming to the Civil Rights Museum will not have been old enough to remember the 1960s," explains exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold. "We are trying in the exhibits to give them a You Are There feeling...
Playing on the road is always difficult, but playing in the unfriendly confines of Brown's Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center that night was especially tough. The heckling given the Harvard players, particularly from behind their bench, bordered on the obscene. The Crimson, however, managed to block out the crowd's taunts and staged a dramatic second-half rally...