The Dolly Parton Comic Strip That Didn’t Happen

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1. Atanwat

   Yes, it was a different era, but even if it really was meant as a compliment, the very idea of calling someone a “foxy lady” to her face seems cringe-worthy now. Ms. Parton can be thankful that this dreadful comic strip never got past the proposal stage.

2. Steve Artley

   Such beautiful artwork. And, I feel compelled to comment that calling someone a “foxy lady” in this period was taken by most women as a compliment… as was “a babe, a fox, a doll, or a knock-out.” Assigning a blanket assessment of today’s dogmatic standards on people of that time is an erroneous presumption. Making the evaluation that today’s norm in social sensitivity protocol is higher on the societal evolutionary scale of proper etiquette is utter hubris. In those days, that finger-pointing behavior was relegated to Bible thumpers who chastised anyone who didn’t fit their purity paradigm. As Dolly sang in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, “…there’s nothing dirty going on,” here.