lowercasegods
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When the news broke back in 2002 that an HIV afflicted Muppet would appear in the South African production of Sesame Street, I was working as a staff cartoonist for a couple college newspapers in Michigan. A friend of mine who was editor on one of the papers told me he was going to write an editorial on the subject, and suggested I might do an editorial cartoon to accompany the piece. Being both a Muppet fan and one who walks on the liberal side of politics, I felt obligated to speak out against the U.S. politicians who felt that such a character had no place in children's programming, and were fearful that this character would find its way onto the U.S. production of Sesame Street. Ironically, my friend and editor took the opposite standpoint of my own, and wrote an editorial that opposed this character's existance on TV. It turned out to be a good point/counter point moment in the newspaper, where each side had its position equally presented. I've always been very proud of this cartoon, and thought it might be something worth sharing in this forum.
And as a point of interest, the HIV afflicted character hadn't yet been named or shown publicly at the time I drew this cartoon, so I had to take liberties with the gender and design of the Muppet.
http://www.jayfosgitt.com/Comics/WP/WP2.html
And as a point of interest, the HIV afflicted character hadn't yet been named or shown publicly at the time I drew this cartoon, so I had to take liberties with the gender and design of the Muppet.
http://www.jayfosgitt.com/Comics/WP/WP2.html