In article <3kUXI.7969$4X4....@fx27.iad>,
Chrysi Cat <
Chry...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Just realised there's a really good reason (Hi, Dorothy!) to not confine
>this to the comics ng.
Hi, Chrysi!
>
>Text from original r.a.c.s post to follow
>
>>
https://www.comicskingdom.com/rae-the-doe/2021-08-30
>>
>> I know she's claiming "busy", but I think this might be more of a case
>of "occupational hazard when you draw from life AND your main character
>is prone to severe depression".
Cf. _Something Positive_, in which the main character is
depressed and so is the artist, who makes no bones about it.
>>
>> Not sure if this will affect any actual physical newspapers; Olive did
>get this syndicated, but I can't imagine any paper whose readership
>wouldn't have had massive subscriber complaints over an openly-trans
>woman drawing an openly-trans character "for muh kids to read". I mean,
>I don't think that Phoebe and Her Unicorn would last another week if
>Dana suddenly were to reveal that Phoebe's birth name had been Peter.
I've never seen this strip before. Is it okay to ask which
character is trans, and how do you know? Previous strips? Some
kind of coding that I wouldn't have noticed? All I found weird
(other than the characters breaking the fourth wall, which
happens a lot in webcomics) was that the reindeer(?) seems to
have their face on sideways.
>> Also, how did *I* of all people not realise this strip existed until a
>week before the production cut? I don't mean "didn't know it was
>syndicated"; I somehow didn't know it had existed even in
>pre-syndication form.
>
I didn't know it existed until you posted.
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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
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