Comic strip panels that were doctored in translation for anti-war propaganda
I made an interesting discovery a while ago when I read this entry on Comics Should be Good from last June in which a comics reader from Israel sent the following page he'd found on a site belonging to one of the comics stores I've often visited in Tel Aviv where the left-wing organization Peace Now took an episode of a comic strip called Crash Christian, published by National Lampoon in the early 1970s, and changed the dialogue for the purpose of anti-war bias. The doctored dialogue reads like this:Headline: "The Adventures of B., The Pondering Pilot"Boy, this is pure disgust, and it figures that an awful leftist outfit like Peace Now would do such a thing. Exploiting a simple comic strip from years before for the sake of worthless political tommyrot! National Lampoon should sue.
Panel 1 - "In this war [1982's Lebanon War, i.e.] the IDF proves once again that Israel is safe and strong. In this war we are losing brothers, sons, friends."
"Scream" balloon says: "A continuing story"
Panel 2 - "In this war thousands are being extracted from their homes and whole cities are ruined. In this war being killed thousands of... Citizens!"
Panel 3 - "Such war never been before in the history of Israel. For what are they being killed? For what they kill? Have [we] accepted as a nation to go to this war? Was are [our] existence at a critical juncture? Will this war break the circle of violence, suffering and hatred?"
Panel 4 - "We say to the Government of Israel:"
Panel 5 - "STOP!"
SFX: "BOOM!"
Caption box: "After the bombing B. hurries to the Peace Now ["Shalom Achshav", the organization producing this strip] demonstration"
Panel 6 - "Now is the time to call the Palestinians to make a peace negotiation. Now is the time to establish peace based on a mutual recognition!"
Labels: comic strips, politics
