Comics With Problems
Comics with Problems is an online collection of public service announcement-type cartoons focused on health-related issues. Compiled and edited by Ethan Persoff, the comics vary widely in topic and aesthetics, from Rex Morgan M.D. talking about abortion, to Dennis the Menance and child abuse, to Madonna and AIDS. Reading these comics are surreal and ironic, like reading issue number Eight’s “absolutely psychotic Archie comic written by the F.B.I.,” or the laughable and equally sad anti-drug music video starring Whitney Houston and produced by Nancy Reagan.
My favorite one so far is the current issue, number twelve, “Security is an Eye Patch,” a government funded comic about Amblyopia –Lazy Eye– starring Peanuts characters Sally and Charlie Brown.
