American Newspapers Lose Their Nerve
Berkeley Breathed, the American cartoonist, apparently misjudged the furor he would kick off in his comic strip Opus with two relatively inoffensive depictions of one of his favorite characters, Lola Granola, who turned Muslim and renamed herself Fatima Struggle in the first strip and went to the beach in a “burqini” in the second.
The Washington Post de…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.