Sunday, June 3, 2012

More Stilwell -- Early cafeteria lady

Here's the latest digitally restored "Stilwell" comic strip. This one was originally published May 11, 1971, in The Cauldron, Cleveland State University' student newspaper. This was fairly early in the comic strip's run, so the frogs and my artwork in general were a tad rudimentary. I did quite a few comics on a particular cafeteria worker's inability to be student friendly. I've already posted one strip that deals with the fact that she became visibly annoyed when someone would ask her for change for the vending machines that were situated right next to the cafeteria line's cash register station. This cartoon was an earlier take on the same theme. The mention of "1219" bears explanation. It is a reference to House Bill 1219, which was introduced by the Ohio General Assembly in the summer of 1970. The state law stipulated that any student, faculty member or university staffer who was involved in any of a number of offenses related to a campus disruption would be expelled or fired. It followed the Kent State shootings and a number of campus protests that erupted in the wake of that massacre in which four students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen sent to break up an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970.

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