Dick Hafer

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Dick Hafer had a special thing for the gays

Dick Hafer (1937-2003), the "Comics Commando!", was a right-wing comic book artist who also did some mainstream comics on such subjects as model railroading (collected in his book This Is NOT The Honeymoon I Anticipated), dog ownership, and Christian humor books with titles like Church Chuckles and Sunday Snickers. His mainstream books were lightweight "family friendly" humor. His comics on political and social issues were rather batshit.

His most infamous political comics, all published during the 1980s, were the anti-abortion I Know That We're a Throw-Away Society — But This Is Ridiculous!; Magical Mike: The Real Story of Mike Dukakis, which was mass-distributed with the urging of Jerry Falwell during the 1988 U.S. Presidential Election; Every Family Has One, an anti-Ted Kennedy work published by Citizens Organized to Replace Kennedy (CORK); and his most batshit moment ever, Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate Deathstyle.

He also illustrated (but did not write) a series of right-wing political comic booklets for the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), featuring the folksy character "Gran'pa Jack". The titles include, "Gun Control" Kills Kids!, Can You Get a Fair Trial in America?, It's Common Sense (to use our Bill of Rights), "Gun Control" is Racist!, The United Nations is Killing Your Freedoms!, Will "Gun Control" Make You Safer?, Do Gun Prohibitionists Have a Mental Problem?, and finally Is America Becoming a Police State?.

He also ran a fundamentalist Christian newsletter named "Freedomlight Report". One of its articles, The Ouija- Game or Toy from Hell, claimed that the Ouija board is commonly used by demons to launch demonic attacks and brutally rape women, all of which is supposedly "backed by strong medical evidence."

Thanks to the Internet you can read some of these demented works online and decide for yourself whether Poe's Law applies.

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