By the Comics Curmudgeon
Oh, the noble pig! This beast is the cleverest and friendliest of your barnyard animals — seriously, have you ever looked into the dim, soulless eyes of a cow or a chicken? — and is delicious when transformed into a whole panoply of meat products. Yet whenever it gets used in a cartoon, it denotes something bad! Why are America’s political cartoonists racist against pigs? MORE »