Monday, November 20, 2017

(187) Murphy's Manor - Introducing Safe Sex

Murphy's Manor started in 1981-- before the advent of AIDS -- or at least before anybody in Toledo had heard of it. 

I was in a quandary as a cartoonist of what to do with it. Couldn't ignore it -- it was killing people -- but it wasn't easy subject matter for joking. Death by AIDS -- what a barrel of laughs!

But what kind of a cartoonist would I be if I couldn't find irony in unlikely places?

This strip earned me one of the very few fan letters I ever received.


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