The Bible in the Funny Papers - The BAS Library

Endnotes

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G. Frank Burns, “The Bible and American Popular Humor,” in The Bible and Popular Culture in America, ed. Allene S. Phy, The Bible in American Culture 2 (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), p. 32. There is even a Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye Brook, N.Y., which admittedly covers more than the comic strip.

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The following comic strips (listed in alphabetic order) contribute one cartoon each: “Andy Capp,” “Blondie,” “Broom Hilda,” “Cathy,” “Dunagin’s People,” “On the Fastrack,” “Gasoline Alley,” “Hagar,” “Muppets,” “Shoe” and “Ziggy.” Editorial cartoons accounted for another half-dozen examples. The higher numbers generally reflect comic strips I regularly read. Other researchers might well gather far more examples from “The Far Side,” “Kudzu” or “Bloom County” than I have. In his discussion of cartoons, Burns (pp. 32–29) includes examples from the following comic strips (listed in order of their appearance in Burns): “Peanuts,” “B.C.,” “Dennis the Menace,” “Pogo,” “Broom Hilda,” “Ziggy,” “The Born Loser,” “Momma,” “Andy Capp,” “Eek and Meek,” “Howard The Duck,” “Rooftop O’Toole,” “Doonesbury” and “Boner’s Ark.”

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Robert L. Short, The Gospel According to Peanuts (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1964) and The Parables of Peanuts (New York: Fawcett, 1968).