There was no tobacco in biblical times, what a sad blunder

Gasoline Alley, 5/17/24

OK, see, I get that Assistant Mayor Elbert Imeswine was the villain of the "Electric Acres" arc, but he doesn't seem to be based on any particular real-life person and was dispatched without ever having been very threatening. But still, the way he haunts Walt's dreams as this truly vile vampire pig caricature implies a level of vitriol held by the very artist who created him that I honestly find puzzling. This looks like the way you'd draw a local politician you were in the midst of a decade-long feud with if you were the political cartoonist on the staff of the local paper, or the way you'd draw a representation of some ethnic group that you were extremely racist against.

Dennis the Menace, 5/17/24