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JohnnyRingo

(20,020 posts)
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:06 AM Saturday

Once in a while the comic strip Hi and Lois slips in a sly political comment

A couple years ago Lois was donning a Pussy Hat and going to a rally, but usually it's about family life.

This is the July 4th strip:

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Once in a while the comic strip Hi and Lois slips in a sly political comment (Original Post) JohnnyRingo Saturday OP
Excellent!!! niyad Saturday #1
Trump on Truth Social: "Hi and Lois are radical leftists!" sop Saturday #2
Notice it's the Ditto, the next generation, who is concerned. JohnnyRingo Saturday #3
Yeah, well Ditto looks to be the age where he'd be drafted Conjuay Saturday #4
Don't leave out that they're a failing strip that nobody reads.... JohnnyRingo Saturday #11
THings I never knew bucolic_frolic Saturday #5
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the Hi and Lois strip posted. generalbetrayus Saturday #6
I wouldn't characterize it that way Easterncedar Saturday #7
Next thing you know Archie and Jughead will join Antifa. sop Saturday #8
We Need A Laugh These Days DanBaron Saturday #9
Wow, I didn't know it was still going. tanyev Saturday #10
Yes! As I said in the 4th of July Texts Cha Yesterday #12
Anyone Trump dislikes is samplegirl Yesterday #13

sop

(15,028 posts)
2. Trump on Truth Social: "Hi and Lois are radical leftists!"
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:18 AM
Saturday

Wow, you know you've lost "the silent majority" when Hi and Lois call you a tyrant.

JohnnyRingo

(20,020 posts)
3. Notice it's the Ditto, the next generation, who is concerned.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:24 AM
Saturday

But yeah, it's pretty much the most (white) bread and butter family in the funny papers calling him a Nazi

Conjuay

(2,559 posts)
4. Yeah, well Ditto looks to be the age where he'd be drafted
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:28 AM
Saturday

If the KKKlown Master continues his nonsense.

JohnnyRingo

(20,020 posts)
11. Don't leave out that they're a failing strip that nobody reads....
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 03:59 PM
Saturday

...and they're ugly.

bucolic_frolic

(51,216 posts)
5. THings I never knew
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 09:59 AM
Saturday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_and_Lois

Hi and Lois is an American comic strip about a suburban family. Created by Mort Walker and illustrated by Dik Browne, both of whose children currently work on the strip, it debuted on October 18, 1954, distributed by King Features Syndicate.[1]
Publication history

The Flagstons first appeared in Walker's Beetle Bailey. They spun off into their own strip, written by Walker and drawn by Browne. Lois Flagston (née Bailey) is Beetle Bailey's sister and the two strips make occasional crossovers. One of these occurred on the strip's 40th anniversary in 1994, when Beetle visited his sister Lois and her family. Chip resembles his Uncle Beetle in attitude and appearance, especially the eyes.
The Best of Hi and Lois (1986) was reprinted in 2005.

The strip made efforts to keep up with the times, such as housewife Lois Flagston taking a career in real estate in 1980. In previous decades, the strip was acclaimed; in 1962, it earned Browne a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society.

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Hi and Lois and Beetle Bailey are related!! much more at the link

generalbetrayus

(1,072 posts)
6. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the Hi and Lois strip posted.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 10:44 AM
Saturday

I had read somewhere that Lois and Beetle were brother and sister, but I didn't know the whole history. We haven't had Hi and Lois in the Denver Post for ages, but Beetle Bailey still runs daily and Sunday.

Easterncedar

(4,682 posts)
7. I wouldn't characterize it that way
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 10:50 AM
Saturday

It’s a SHOUT!

I am actually impressed by the authors’ attitude. I wonder if the newspapers (such as still exist) will get backlash?

Cha

(312,693 posts)
12. Yes! As I said in the 4th of July Texts
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 05:11 AM
Yesterday

I sent... Happy 4th of July~ We Love Our Independence! 💙

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