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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Olive Oyl pro-choice but now her artist is jobless
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- /** gen.women: 100.0 **/
- ** Topic: King Features Fires Pro Choicer **
- ** Written 1:30 pm Jul 22, 1992 by jillaine in cdp:gen.women **
- The following appeared in:
- From SF Examiner, July 22, 1992
- Page A-2
- (portions reprinted without permission; please contact SF Examiner
- for reprint rights).
-
- Olive Oyl pro-choice but now her artist is jobless
- Examiner News Services
-
- NEW YORK - Popeye likes to say "I am what I am," but when Olive Oyl tried
- to assert her independence in a veiled reference to abortion rights
- the artist who draws her got the boot.
-
- Bobby London, who draws the daily "Popeye" comic strip for
- King Features, says the company told him last week he was being fired
- for submitting a sequence in which Olive asserts her right to choose.
-
- A spokeswoman for King Features refused comment.
-
- ....
-
- [In the strip,] Olive, Popeye's longtime love, is not pregnant in the
- cartoons.
-
- Rather, she receives a baby Bluto doll unsolicited in the mail and
- she and Popeye discuss returning it using phrases such as "send this baby
- back to its maker."
-
- Two priests overhear them and, believeing the subject is abortion,
- try to rally people against Olive Oyl.
-
- "She tells them sha can do what she wants to do, because it's her life,"
- London said.
-
- ...
-
- London said his idea for "Popeye" has been "to show these old cartoon
- characters coping with the modern world." His Olive, for example,
- watches the Home Shopping Network.
-
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