Comments on: Review: Maintaining by Nate Creekmore

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:06:41 +0000

My link attempt got botched. I wanted “this toon” to link over to this:

http://www.gocomics.com/maintaining/2007/11/29/

Dagnabbit…

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:04:39 +0000

My guess is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Queer as Folk probably put the word “queer” back in the general publics lexicon of acceptable and ploitically correct terms.

I’m not a regular reader of Maintaining but http://www.gocomics.com/maintaining/2007/11/29/>this toon and the next days toons are damn funny! Really dislike those eyes, those…

…and that’s not part of my Irish Agenda. We’ll be sending out emails with coupons when our agenda is ready…

By: Pab Sungenis

Pab Sungenis — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:09:10 +0000

Quick correction, Malc. Not all gays, particularly I myself, are enamored of the term “queer.” It’s gained popular acceptance, for some reason, but it still rubs some of us the wrong way. (Perhaps because of the connotation of “not normal” in the word’s literal meaning.)

A basic rule should be, if you don’t want to offend anyone, don’t use any possibly derogatory terms.

If, on the other hand, you don’t care who you offend (again, like I do) then say whatever you want, and be prepared for whatever others say.

By: Malc McGookin

Malc McGookin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:50:32 +0000

Mike, to me a gay man is not a pansy. A “pansy” is a weak, cosseted or pampered individual, overly concerned with trifles. There are plenty of straight people who fit that description.

I accept that the screaming queen or effeminate gay might be described as pansies, but so are cross dressers and trannies (many of whom are hetero).

I just finished writing a post on another site related to this which concerned the phenomenon of women describing themselves as “chicks” these days. When I was a younger man, that would have been the height of sexism, as a chick was a powerless, fluffy and dependant creature.

Nowadays, women seem quite happy to be labelled “blonde” (i.e. ditzy) and gays “queers”, another formerly insulting label which has been embraced as a compliment.

Women as fluffy inconsequential items and men as patronizing boors, that’s the way it seems to be going, check in in another thirty years and see if the pendulum has swings the other way, if you’ll pardon the expression.

By: jack jack

jack jack — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:10:15 +0000

maintaining is the best comic ever in the newspaper better than boondocks every since this comic strip came out i always buy the newspaper every sunday.

By: Eugene Neal

Eugene Neal — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:17:21 +0000

Congratulations Nate! Wishing you the best!

By: Ludine

Ludine — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:53:43 +0000

Congratulations and much blessings NAte

By: Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:05:14 +0000

In the strip on August 27th in The Oregonian, a female character essentially said a male character was impotent, not a man and “like a loser or a pansy”. Since I’m a gay man I took offense at the reference, but even worse, this strip was putting women down because it referred to the character as taking the female role and made it obvious it was an inferior role. This artist needs to become more mature and less sexist and bigoted or at least get an editor.

By: Allen Walker

Allen Walker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:07:28 +0000

This strip is so eye-opening! Very unique and can’t wait to see more!

Thanks nate!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:58:03 +0000

I look forward to his success with this and seeing him reach the top of the ladder, its about time for some of this type of educational humor. Would love to see more of it accross the U.S.
Good Luck Nate! And thanks for sharing your talent