The Four Color Media Monitor

The Art Newspaper reported about an exhibition in London for notable comics like Judge Dredd, and it says at the end:

Consider, for example, the million-year potted history told in a single page of Brick Bradford, dating from 1941: nuclear war, planetary disaster, the eradication of all disease (though it predicted humans would reach the moon in the 50th century… only about 3,000 years out). Judge Dredd’s blood-soaked quasi-fascism now looks a whole lot more likely, suggesting that by the late 1970s, when Dredd first showed up in 2000AD comic, idealistic notions of the future direction of society had been well and truly phased out.

Well the problem is that it's like nobody wanted to argue why it's vital to do everything one can to prevent serious disasters from occurring, easily worse than what 2000AD could envision. And that's not exactly what even Dredd's writers and artists were doing at the time, was it? If nobody's willing to work for improvement of living conditions and emphasis on civility, and make such a point in the very fiction products where all the bleakness is occurring, then how does anybody expect to improve the world's situation?

Whether it's comics creators or moviemakers, some simply do not seem to have what it takes to offer clearer vision for whether they want the planet to be a better place. And those who produced Judge Dredd and other 2000AD comic strips with similar themes don't seem to have had any interest in emphasizing the vital need for improvement either.

Labels: comic strips, Europe and Asia, exhibitions, history, msm propaganda, museums, politics, violence