Re: Doonesbury- August 31- Out of Bounds?


ronniecat wrote:

The caricatures I am recalling were when Amy Carter was an adolescent,
so pre-public career. I am dimly remembering there being the kind of
public discussion that there was about Chelsea Clinton later, when she
was the same age. (People kind of saying, "C'mon, she's gangly and
awkward and going through a rough time for anyone, lay off the
big-teeth/frizzy hair caricatures".)

All this is pre-Google, of course, so I doubt I could find the kinds
of images I'm remembering or cites to back up my recollection. (A Mort
Drucker caricature of A.C. seems to stand out in my mind. Mad,
perhaps?) Anyway, as I noted, caricature is not the same as going
after a Presidential kid's actions, anyway. As a rule I don't think
it's really fair game, until the kid chooses to make him or herself a
public person.

Bringing this carciture back to the topic of comics, does anyone
remember a Carter-era comic strip "Rooftop O'Toole?" It had the premise
of being the comic misadventrues of the newspaper boy (remember those?)
for the White House. Most of the cast were fictional, although Amy
Carter appeared regularly. I remember the strip being pretty bad and
did not even last until the end of the Carter Administation.

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