{"id":35,"date":"2005-05-10T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/05\/10\/hilary-price-a-call-to-action\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T00:33:35","slug":"hilary-price-a-call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/05\/hilary-price-a-call-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Price: a Call to Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a343'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few Sundays ago (during my inexplicable blogging hiatus), Berke<br \/>\nBreathed ran an &#8220;I-dare-you-to-sue-me-for-copyright-infringement&#8221;<br \/>\nSunday strip depicting just about every popular comic strip animal in<br \/>\nhistory and making the claim that there&#8217;s never been a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">major<\/span><br \/>\nfemale animal character in comic strip history (as &#8220;adjunct<br \/>\ngirlfriends,&#8221; Daisy Duck et.al. don&#8217;t count). Message board pundits can<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.captaincomics.us\/forums\/lofiversion\/index.php\/t16176.html\">disagree<\/a>, but I think he&#8217;s right (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span>I recall an interview with Peter Molyneux about his breakthrough game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/pc\/strategy\/blackwhite\/index.html\">Black and White<\/a><br \/>\nin which he explained why they dumped the idea of having female<br \/>\nCreatures because of, well, issues with making them look right).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anderkoo.com\/uploads\/222\/421\/Rhymes_with_Orange_2005-05-09.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Never one to allow injustice in the comic strip world, Hilary Price (a Massachusetts resident) has introduced, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/comics\/monty\/html\/about_comic.html\">Monty<\/a>-like, a new (disposable?) character. Bets on how long Ms. Catastrophe will last?\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kinda cool when comic strips communicate with each other, like<br \/>\nthis past April Fool&#8217;s (also back in my blog hiatus) Get Fuzzy, Fox Trot, and Pearls Before Swine <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/billamend\/\">all ran the same strip<\/a>. But the alarming thing is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderkoo.com\/gene\/pictures?func=viewSubmission&amp;sid=422&amp;wid=222\">Hilary reads Rose is Rose<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Sundays ago (during my inexplicable blogging hiatus), Berke Breathed ran an &#8220;I-dare-you-to-sue-me-for-copyright-infringement&#8221; Sunday strip depicting just about every popular comic strip animal in history and making the claim that there&#8217;s never been a major female animal character in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/05\/hilary-price-a-call-to-action\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}