We’re outside a monastery on a snow-covered Alpine peak. A hiker talks to a robed Monk, who watches a herd of enormous St. Bernards cavort. The Monk is saying: “They don’t rescue people anymore. Now we raise them for meat.”
Yesterday’s anti-semitic classic comic brought out the commenters. Comic Maven Eliot S! Kalan writes that the English did hold onto their Jewish stock characters a little longer than everyone else, and points to the “loud, greedy, whiny Jewish landlord” in the classic ‘70s production of “I, Claudius” — a character that didn’t even exist in the original novel.
Nimble Billy Kimball points out that Robin Hood and a Jewish Money Lender also co-exist in “Ivanhoe” — and a good thing he did point it out, because I have never been able to read “Ivanhoe.” Here is a scene from a comic book adaptation of the movie of the book:
Boy, is that a noble Jew! Yuk! Again, I’d rather be portrayed as a villain than a stuffed popinjay of tolerance like old Isaac here. I think he wears that Menorah on his shoulder like a pirate wears a parrot.
Also: Wow! Ivanhoe is even unreadable in comic book form.
Please draw so I can stop running these historical panels.