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...Burly Bogeyman...
...Haitian bogeyman was called "Tonton Macoute" because he carried a large bag into which he popped naughty children and carried them away. He was represented in earlier and more authentic sculpture and pictures as a huge burly man with an oversized "macoute...
...your article on Haiti [May 3] you mention the late Francois Duvalier's secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, and define this term as Creole for "bogeyman." This would be better interpreted as a Creole corruption of tontons m'ecoutent, which is colloquial French for "The uncles are listening" and is basically equivalent to the Orwellian phrase "Big Brother is watching...
...three of the comics deal with the problems of drug use, but Bogeyman, more than the others, focuses on the end points of speed and heroin addiction. In its "Hall of Infamy," a monthly feature on California's most strung-out freaks, the inaugural member is "Scorpion," who has just hacked his way out of the head of his alternate identity, Huey Lincoln Smith (1942-1969). He is pictured standing inside a ruptured skull, still holding the axe. The split-head image recurs in a story called "Last Hit." A girl shoots up and frazzles her mind until woolly monsters...
...years comic book fantasies have been a repository for wishes and dreams. But the HEE HEE, Honky Tonk, and Bogeyman series indicates things are different now. All the silly rules are down. Comics are coming to tell you about the dark side of your mind...