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Cartoonist

(7,319 posts) Sat Oct 26, 2019, 03:52 PM Oct 2019

Hot Stuff

I started a post over in the Lounge that brought this character to mind.

This is Harvey Comics, the people who gave us Casper, Wendy, Richie Rich, Little Audrey, and Baby Huey.

The imagery stems from religion, from the horns down to the magic diapers. I think I read that it once extended to the feet. Original concept drawings had him with cloven hooves.

Even as a kid I wondered who his parents were. I'm surprised he never got the attention of the religious right.

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Hot Stuff (Original Post) Cartoonist Oct 2019 OP

Your comment about the religious right makes me... EarnestPutz Oct 2019 #1

Thanks for the reminder. I loved the Harvey comics when I was a kid so long ago! abqtommy Oct 2019 #2

Ditto kimbutgar Oct 2019 #3

I'd buy the Tee shirt to wear, answering the door on Saturday mornings. 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #4

But? God and the Devil are related. Bretton Garcia Oct 2019 #5

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)

1. Your comment about the religious right makes me...

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Sat Oct 26, 2019, 03:59 PM

Oct 2019

...want to buy a "Hot Stuff" tee shirt.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

2. Thanks for the reminder. I loved the Harvey comics when I was a kid so long ago!

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Sat Oct 26, 2019, 04:49 PM

Oct 2019

kimbutgar

(21,168 posts)

3. Ditto

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 26, 2019, 05:01 PM

Oct 2019

I loved Audrey, Dot and Ritchie rich. I think somewhere in my parents garage I still have some of those comics.

3Hotdogs

(12,394 posts)

4. I'd buy the Tee shirt to wear, answering the door on Saturday mornings.

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Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:29 PM

Oct 2019

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

5. But? God and the Devil are related.

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Sun Oct 27, 2019, 05:02 AM

Oct 2019

They are the two poles of ... one unitary religious system. Can't have one without the other it seems.
If you're going to claim one Creator being is absolutely perfect, then you need another being to explain all the imperfect things all around. Like a full diaper.

If God created all things? Then he created all the evil in the universe. And He created Satan too.

Maybe the religious right doesn't object, because they know they are deep down, related to the devil.

Often they confess they ARE sinners. And that there's a devil inside of them.

Maybe if they faced that a little more, they'd reform themselves better.

Or chuck the whole polarized binary system. And learn to see shades of grey, so to speak.

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