Dick Hafer (comics)

Dick Hafer (July 20, 1937 – July 5, 2003)^[1] was an American comics artist. He is best known for his Christian and conservative comics with strong political and anti-extramarital sexuality views.

Hafer wrote about 70 comics. Although he is known most for his controversial political comics, Hafer covered a wide variety of topics: from church life (Church Chuckles^[2]), to model railroads (Sometimes You Gotta Compromise: A Light-Hearted Look at Model Railroading--And Model Railroaders^[3]), to dog ownership (So You Want a Dog: Questionable Answers to Your Questions About Doggie Ownership^[4]).

Hafer is best known for his conservative social and religious views. One of his most controversial comics was the 1986 anti-homosexual comic Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative Deathstyle.^[5] One of his best selling works was I Know That We're a Throw-Away Society, but This is Ridiculous!, an anti-abortion pamphlet published 1988. He also specifically targeted politicians of the Democratic Party: he parodied Ted Kennedy in Every Family Has One: Little Black Sheep (1982), and Michael Dukakis in Magical Mike (1988).

References

1. Gizzi, John (2003). "Death of the "Comics Commando"". Human Events. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
2. "Church Chuckles". Amazon.com. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
3. Hafer, Dick (1995). Sometimes You Gotta Compromise: A Light-Hearted Look at Model Railroading-- And Model Railroaders. ISBN 0890245649.
4. Hafer, Dick (June 2004). So You Want a Dog: Questionable Answers to Your Questions About Doggie Ownership. ISBN 0944875947.
5. Bizarre anti-gay comic book from 1980s on Boing Boing

External links

• "The Comics Commando: Cartoonist Dick Hafer likes underdogs, including small companies he thinks are being pushed around. Bullies beware!"—Magazine profile from June 1, 1982
• Part 1 and Part 2 of Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative, Deathstyle—presented by Comics With Problems