Eightball #1: Devil Doll?

[alicemacher]

history79's post on Stan Kelly's cartoons elicited some discussion as to whether the ones satirizing right-wing political cartoons were at all distinguishable from the real thing. That reminded me of Daniel Clowes's Chick tract parody from the first issue of his Eightball (Oct. 1989).


One page of three.

Teen-aged Pat rebels against her outwardly staid but inwardly hypocritical Christian parents by hanging out with the Nimrods, a godless married couple who introduce her to "Dungeons & Druids," heavy metal, Satanic tattoos, and narcotics. When her young acquaintance Greg tries to save her soul by handing her a "Goose Gander" tract, she has two of her new devil-worshipping buddies beat him up.







This too is almost indistinguishable from what it's parodying. Almost! Clowes throws in a few subtle "totally irrelevant Bible reference" gags (the one accompanying the car crash cracks me up). Also, on the second page (not included here), a panel meant to show Pat's father's hypocrisy includes some porno titles that Chick himself would've found too, er, strong to include in his own work.

Comments

[rainspirit]

I'm so old. I think of Devil Doll and the first thing that comes to my mind is an old flash cartoon from Shockwave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A9EBq0Thy4

[mastermahan]

You're old?! This is what I associate with Devil Doll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2j1cRTd-3g

[full_metal_ox]

And I see your MST3K and raise you the possessed Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror (1975) with Karen Black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OvX0T6EMo

(Also, apropos of nothing in particular: "Hash Hobbit" needs to be a band name.)

[commodus]

The Devil has a pretty crappy business model if he's torturing his own employees. Surely it would be easier to give them a fruit basket or some cheap domestic wine?

[featheredserpent]

After spending that much to have the Lake of Fire installed, it'd be a shame not to use it.

[tcampbell1000]

I'm got a working title, "Poe's Law in the Age of Fake News." Will see if I can develop it.