Boing-Boing writer indirectly smears Captain America's conservative co-creator, Joe Simon
A writer at Boing Boing talked about the history of Captain America, and comes off making it sound like Joe Simon had nothing to do with the creation of the Star-Spangled Avenger as did Jack Kirby, since, while the latter is brought up here, the former isn't, and it seems like the writer was more interested in smearing right-wingers than in an actual history commentary, while attending the Skirball Center's exhibition in Los Angeles:
I've thought for a long time Boing-Boing was a pretty dreadful cultural news site, and this does nothing to alter my perceptions. What business does the writer of that item have claiming he's a Kirby or a Cap fan if he leaves out Simon? Seriously, I wish such columnists would just stop talking about comicdom, or anything that was originally developed by Jews/Israeli descendants, if they're only going to exploit them for making stealth political attacks. Our creations should not be exploited by ungrateful and unconvincing leftists.
The exhibition also includes a copy of the rare Captain America #1 from 1941, which came out before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and a large percentage of conservatives in America were rooting for Hitler. Kirby wasn't having any of it. The cover deliciously shows Captain America delivering a knockout blow to Hitler's ugly face. Kirby's family also loaned the museum his military uniform, which is displayed next to a photo of him wearing it during World War II. And while the army took advantage of Kirby's drawing skills by enlisting him to draw maps, the 5-feet-2-inches tall Kirby also served in combat, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy in August 1944.Well. This is certainly a face value claim if there ever was one. Does he know Simon was a conservative, and that after 9-11, he drew an illustration of Cap punching Osama bin Laden? That's awfully cheap to make it sound like all conservatives during WW2 were evil, and also obscures how FDR's record on Jews' status was distasteful, and most military officials who fought in WW2 were far more altruistic than he was.
I've thought for a long time Boing-Boing was a pretty dreadful cultural news site, and this does nothing to alter my perceptions. What business does the writer of that item have claiming he's a Kirby or a Cap fan if he leaves out Simon? Seriously, I wish such columnists would just stop talking about comicdom, or anything that was originally developed by Jews/Israeli descendants, if they're only going to exploit them for making stealth political attacks. Our creations should not be exploited by ungrateful and unconvincing leftists.
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