This week's comic: Jon & Kate
I think this is the only time a comic came out of a blog post; after writing this post of a few days ago, I thought there may be a comic in my take on this Jon & Kate Plus Eight thing, and wrote this up.
I think I treaded a very fine line here, and I truly hope I didn’t cross it. I wanted the comic to humorously point out how this show, which had become very popular with children (and was marketed to them), had unexpectedly taken a dark turn. When you’ve got a reality children’s show, reality can take it to places inappropriate for children.
But I worry that I crossed the line into making fun of this family’s actual circumstances, which of course isn’t funny at all. I remain willfully ignorant of the specific allegations and accusations between Kate and Jon, so my extrapolations on marital and family difficulties are intended to be generic. And I intentionally didn’t depict any specific kids, but rather just drew a brood of eight kids of roughly the correct ages. So I hope I made choices that made my goal clear.
