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SuperButch Book 1, Page 201

If you're just joining us, SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic, and this is Issue 8: the beach episode!

For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts, check out the SuperButch Patreon!

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It’s Excessive Occupational Licensing, Charlie Brown!

If you enjoy these cartoons, please reblog or support them on my Patreon. A $1 pledge really helps! This cartoon is a collaboration with Becky Hawkins.  Becky and I have done other political cartoons together, and we also collaborate on our webcomic SuperButch. To read my notes about the cartoon, check out the original patreon post! Transcript:

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels, plus a small extra “kicker” panel below the bottom of the strip. Each panel has the same setting – a green field with blue sky, and a childish booth, drawn to resemble Lucy’s “psychiatric help, the doctor is in” booth from the comic strip Peanuts. But this booth says “State Legislature, the Senator is in.”

Behind the desk is a white man with gray hair and a conservative suit and tie.

Panel 1

The Senator sits behind his booth, listening with his head resting on one hand. A Black person with braided hair has walked up to the booth and is talking to him.

BRAIDER: I’m starting a business braiding Black people’s hair. But the law says I can’t until I’ve taken two thousand hours of training in styling white people’s hair.

Panel 2

The Braider keeps on talking, getting a bit more passionate. Behind them, a grinning man wearing a v-neck shirt and a blazer, with a full beard and carefully styled hair, walks on, waving “hi.”

BRAIDER: Even becoming an Emergency Medical Technician only takes thirty three hours of training! This makes no sense!

SENATOR: This is Bob Johnson of the State Hairdresser’s Association. What do you say, Bob?

Panel 3

Bob leans his elbow on the Senator’s desk, oozing confidence. The Senator listens like an attentive schoolboy. Behind Bob, unnoticed, the Braider looks angry and appalled.

BOB: It’s far too dangerous to permit competit- I mean, to permit unlicensed hair braiding.

BOB: On a completely unrelated note, we’re increasing our donation to your re-election campaign.

Panel 4

The Senator, with a satisfied air, leans back on his chair, hands behind his head and feet on his desk. Bob grins and makes a “hand gun” gesture towards the Senator. The braider raises her hands into the air, and has a huge open mouth of despair and objection as she yells.

SENATOR: After careful deliberation, I’ve concluded unlicensed braiding would be a grave threat to public safety.

BOB: Thanks, Jeff. Lunch?

BRAIDER: THIS IS A TERRIBLE SYSTEM!

Small kicker panel below the bottom of the strip.

The Senator is talking to the braider.

SENATOR: If you don’t want to buy thousands of hours of training about white people’s hair, aren’t you the real racist?

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PSA that along with my postcards, I draw a weekly 1940s lesbian superhero historical noir webcomic called SuperButch, with co-creator Barry Deutsch! It’s about a 1940s lesbian superhero and the bar scene she protects from corrupt cops. You can read the whole comic-in-progress at superbutch.tumblr.com, or order the print issues online!

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SuperButch Book 1, Page 204

SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic.

This page features Mitchell Point Tunnel on the Columbia River Historic Highway. Barry found out about it and put it in the script; Becky visited and drew it! For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts (and to fund Becky's time spent on fun rabbit holes), check out the SuperButch Patreon!

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SuperButch Book 1, Page 203

SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic. For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts, check out the SuperButch Patreon!

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SuperButch Book 1, Page 202

SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic. It follows Lillian Lewis, a reporter who's trying to uncover the superhero protecting the lesbian bars from corrupt cops.

For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts, check out the SuperButch Patreon!

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Book 1, Page 199

SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch. For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts, check out the SuperButch Patreon!

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Issue 7 Cover

SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir webcomic by Becky Hawkins and Barry Deutsch. It follows Lillian Lewis, a reporter who's trying to uncover the superhero protecting the lesbian bars from corrupt cops.

For extra historical info and behind-the-scenes process posts, check out the SuperButch Patreon!