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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/3/2005 11:48:52 AM
Title: Why won't paper's question Hart?
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From MATT MENDELSOHN: Thanks to Roger Ebert for the heads up on Johnny Hart's slam on Darwin and evolution. When I Googled "Hart" I expected to find one -- just one -- story of a newspaper holding the strip. But instead I found and E & P story which said that not one of 1,200 Creators Syndicate clients had any reservations.

And Creators President Rick Newcombe's lame defense, "Anyone who runs 'B.C.' at this point knows Johnny Hart's philosophy," is an even bigger bummer. Everyone knows where Aaron Magruder stands too, but that doesn't stop "Boondocks" from being held every few weeks.

Two years ago Hart slammed Muslims in a strip (the "does it stink in here?" I SLAM outhouse) and then pulled a golly-gee-whiz-what-a-coincidence number. This time around he's calling Charles Darwin "stupid" in the two-panel prologue, not to mention lecturing the nation's 13-year-old comic page readers (and yes, adults) about the "theory" (his quotes) of evolution and the folly of one who "allowed his Christianity to slip." Will any newspapers out there ever question this guy?

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