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I think I remember the note on the door saying something along the lines of "No clothes allowed" or something. And the general isn't sleeping. He is grinning.
Miss Buxley used to be a bit of a blonde airhead back in the 70s and 80s, and this references that; she seemed to accept the general a lot more back then. There even was a strip where she admitted to Blips she was into older men. She never told the general though. These days she smarter, more alert and less accepting of the general, thinking him an old fool.
Blips on the other hand, while always critical of the general, except in her early strips when she was the only secretary, still used to be less vocal and more in respectful of military rank. She once said she found it difficult to be a private as her mother was a colonel. We never met her mother though. While Buxley is a civilian, Blips is a soldier. Today though Blips is a lot sterner as well. In her early drawings, while she never was as curvy as Miss Buxley, Blips have become flatter with time. She used to be a bit more feminine.
Think Jab tried to catch the older atmosphere of the 70s and 80s cartoons in his parody art before Mort Walker had to yield to pressure and make his female characters stronger and make the general take a sensitivity course. He still looks of course, but newer strips are generally a lot tamer and the girls no longer accept being sex symbols, Blips being the guard dog and Miss Buxley being the much more self-aware secretary. She is however still lazy.
I sometimes feel to old and I miss the old days when cartoons didn't have to be politically correct to be honest. I didn't plan to write an entire post on the subject either, but here I am. I truly think the old stripes from the 70s and 80s are a lot better than the ones made these days.
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...or maybe its just "Extra-Causal" Day
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I think I remember the note on the door saying something along the lines of "No clothes allowed" or something. And the general isn't sleeping. He is grinning.
Miss Buxley used to be a bit of a blonde airhead back in the 70s and 80s, and this references that; she seemed to accept the general a lot more back then. There even was a strip where she admitted to Blips she was into older men. She never told the general though. These days she smarter, more alert and less accepting of the general, thinking him an old fool.
Blips on the other hand, while always critical of the general, except in her early strips when she was the only secretary, still used to be less vocal and more in respectful of military rank. She once said she found it difficult to be a private as her mother was a colonel. We never met her mother though. While Buxley is a civilian, Blips is a soldier. Today though Blips is a lot sterner as well. In her early drawings, while she never was as curvy as Miss Buxley, Blips have become flatter with time. She used to be a bit more feminine.
Think Jab tried to catch the older atmosphere of the 70s and 80s cartoons in his parody art before Mort Walker had to yield to pressure and make his female characters stronger and make the general take a sensitivity course. He still looks of course, but newer strips are generally a lot tamer and the girls no longer accept being sex symbols, Blips being the guard dog and Miss Buxley being the much more self-aware secretary. She is however still lazy.
I sometimes feel to old and I miss the old days when cartoons didn't have to be politically correct to be honest. I didn't plan to write an entire post on the subject either, but here I am. I truly think the old stripes from the 70s and 80s are a lot better than the ones made these days.