COMICS
WITH PROBLEMS issue #7
MADONNA:
Who's that Girl? On AIDS
20
pages, 1987
Full color newsprint with glossy covers.
PROBLEM(s)
DEALT WITH: AIDS, Stds, lifestyle, etc
Handed
out one night only at a 1987 Madonna concert in Madison Square
Garden
Here is the first draft of Madonna's introductory note:
compare
to the printed final piece
YOUR
LETTERS
compiled from Haloscan comments and email:
I
like your solution with the cover illustration for this issue.
It says to me: "Have a little AIDS? Why not just sprinkle
a little Madonna on it, that should cure it!"
FABULOUS 4EVR - NYC | 10.16.06 - 11:04 am | #
[Ha,
Hey Fabulous - Thanks. Yes that's true - there is little
in this world that can not be solved by sprinkling a little
Madonna on it.
She puts the holla' in kabbalah - Ethan]
How
many people do you think read this AIDS comic at the Madonna
concert? I'm sure one of these copies ended up as a target
in the urinal.
Terrence Hall | 10.20.06 - 12:35 pm | #
Four
words for panel two, page 10:
1)
HEROIN 2) BOOZE 3) MAKEOUT 4) PARTY
Susan
loves Heroin and Boozing | 10.08.06 - 7:25 pm | #
Hey Madgey - Me and Oprah have teamed up like Interracial Wonder
Twins, and are in the game now too. Suck it! - BONO,
OPRAH PROMOTE NEW iPOD TO FIGHT AIDS - Bitch!
Bono from U2, world famous min | 10.16.06 - 1:50 pm | #
Yeah
- about that cover
.....If Madonna covered me in a costume like that I wouldn't
be hungry for eggs and bacon either. No matter how much she
stared at me.
Plus
ten points for the head mic.
Sharon from Montana | 10.16.06 - 3:19 pm | #
Also,
Hi Bono!
Sharon from Montana | 10.16.06 - 3:20 pm | #
Hey
- what's up with the subversively hidden Hammer and Sickle in
the audience there on page 17? Screw AIDS,
there's a commie in the CROWD!!! RUN!!! KILL!!!
J.E.Hoover McCarthey | 10.18.06 - 4:26 pm | #
>
She puts the holla' in kabbalah
Stop it STOP IT, you'll make me spit matzah all over this gefilte.
Sheyner Ponim | 10.20.06 - 1:50 pm | #
God awful way to start a story, that bit of dialogue sure is.
Thomas G - Atlanta | 10.20.06 - 4:43 pm | #
Page
7, on the podium:
Is that Stan Lee?
Is that Charles Nelson Reilly?
TDempster | 10.25.06 - 11:37 am | #
Interesting
that almost all the magazines listed
on the back as sponsors of this comic virtually
ignored AIDS as a disease when it first showed up.
SimonLW | 10.25.06 - 3:35 pm | #
I
wonder if Madonna will give this comic to her newly adopted/purchased
African Black Boy Baby.
Paul | 10.26.06 - 3:41 pm |
I
want to comment on COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #4
but the comments are closed there so I'm posting something here
which seems like the most similar issue.
Anyway what I wanted to say is, as awful and pun-laden as that
book is, they inexcusably missed an GOLDEN opportunity to be
even more awful with the title. Instead of "VD CLAPTRAP:
FIRST TRIP TO VENUS" they should have called it "FIRST
TRIP TO URANUS"
Thank you I'm here all week!
Karl Rove | 02.01.07 - 10:25 am | #
Is
it inappropriate to mention that when I see the announcer guy
on stage I can think only of the blowjob from Police Academy,
with the hooker hidden in the podium?
Paul | 02.05.07 - 3:41 pm |
#
VAGINAS
IN THE NEWSFILTER:
A theatre in Florida had to change the title of a charity production
of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee, after a woman complained
that it was offensive. They decided on 'The Hoohaa Monologues'.
Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida, received a complaint
from a woman who'd seen the advertised title as she drove past
with her niece. She said that it had made her niece ask her
what a vagina was. The theatre's Bryce Pfanenstiel commented:
'I'm on the phone and asked “What did you tell her?”
She's like, “I'm offended I had to answer the question.”'
... (newslink)
Associated Press | 02.09.07 - 11:24 am | #
THANK YOU FOR THIS IMPORTANT NEWSPOSTING.
Still, though, I'm not resolved. I personally find the word
'monologues' much more offensive than the other one that rhymes
with angina. I know what angina is so any word that rhymes with
it is A-OKAY with ME. Pat Robertson has angina, a beautiful
one.
But Monologues ... I mean what does that mean? Mono? and LOGUES?
What if my daughter asks me what a LOGUE is??? Is that something
I'd have to squat down over a handheld mirror to see?? YOU ARE
NOT GETTING ME TO DO THAT YOU FILTHY RAPING PEREVRT! I know
there are cameras in the handheld mirrors. I know this! Personally
I've never had mono -- BUT I KNOW WHAT IT IS!! It's the KISSING
DISEASE - fucking filthy tongues and lips, is what! But I have
never seen my Logue, and .... well I'm too disgusted right now
to continue, really. Just know that I'm disgusted about this
word monologue, and if I ever see it on a marquee know that
my Senator is getting a PRETTY FUCKING TERSE LETTER ABOUT IT.
I think a perfect re-titling would be the Hoohaw Talkies. That's
nice. Or how about the Hoohaw Heehaws. Yes, that makes me much
happier. Like the olden times.
I like olden times. They're like shiny candy without all that
grit. I'm smiling now.
Mildred
| 02.09.07 - 11:40 am | #
With
the Good Logue as your Witness,
you'll make it through Mildred.
Friendly Neighbor | 02.09.07 - 2:47 pm | #
Love
the hooking on page 14
Sally
| 02.14.07 - 1:42 pm | #
Nice
Dykes Bar on the panel right beneath it, too.
Sally
| 02.14.07 - 1:56 pm | #
Well,
I for one am glad I read this publication. It turns out that
I can have casual sex with all of the doctors, dentists, hairdressers,
and barbers I want, because "there is no record of anyone
getting AIDS from" anyone in these professions.
Thank you, Madonna.
That one guy | 03.17.07 - 9:24 pm | #
Panel
1, Page 17 amuses me for a number of reasons.
To list:
1) "It Won't Happen to Me!" - Note he's got a bit
of a boner while he's saying that. Risktaker. Sadist. Fool!
2) "Boy is He Wrong" - This friend sounds confidently
informed of something - Could it be that it's because he
has AIDS and is in the process of casually fucking his friend
in the rear!?? Directly in public, in front of a reporter.
and
3) Comments 1 and 2 make the video camera suddenly very snuff-seeming.
And note the peeping tom in the back enjoying the show.
Friendly
Neighbor | 04.19.07 - 6:27 pm | #
>
peeping TOM
What?? Cause He's Black???? THAT'S RACIST!!!
advocate | 06.07.07 - 6:40 pm | #
>
casual sex with dentist
I hear their swingers club is The Dental Dam.
confidentially yours | 06.12.07 - 1:40 pm | #
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YOU FOR YOUR LETTERS
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