Monday PSA: Touchdown for Picasso!

April 30th, 2007

Filed under: Comics

Touchdown for Picasso! Click for the full page.With the NFL draft just completed, it’s the perfect time to take a look at just what makes a good football player. This PSA from Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane #38 — “Touchdown for Picasso!” — addresses that very topic.

Click on the image to the right for the full ad.

There are some nice touches in this PSA. I love the look of utter disbelief and revulsion when Stan finds out that his football hero may indeed be a “sissy.” And sure, it appears that Stan’s in acceptance by that last panel — but look at all that twitching he’s doing, that’s simply not healthy. (I’m thinking you can probably read a lot more into this strip now than the creators intended when it was published in 1963.)

As with most of DC’s Silver Age public service ads, the words are by Jack Schiff. The art this time is by Sheldon Moldoff

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2 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Touchdown for Picasso! ”

  1. Dave
    April 30th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

    Well, I guess David Kopay wasn’t the first gay football player. And how the hell does the kid know Biff well enough to just barge in, but not know he dabbles in painting and listens to “longhair” music? This little morality tale falls apart in its own logic.

  2. MisterVader
    May 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    Whoa. I stumbled onto a pretty nice comics site here. In another famous site’s words, “what were they thinking”? So much unintended homoeroticism… heh.

    Speaking of comics, remember the old SuperFriends cartoons during the ’70’s? Well, imagine if they were turned into the current U.S. Political scene and done in the same way! You end up with The Challenge Of The Super-Duper Friends!

    Karl Rove as the Joker is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

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