Monday PSA: Children of Tomorrow

October 22nd, 2007

Filed under: Comics

Children of Tomorrow. Click for the full page.

It may be a few days early, but this seemed the perfect time for this PSA from Adventure Comics #297 (June, 1962) which celebrates United Nations Day, October 24th, the day in 1948 when the United Nations charter became official. According to the U.N., each member nation is supposed to celebrate United Nations Day as a public holiday. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be working a full day on Wednesday with nary a holiday in sight until Veteran’s Day. So much for United Nations Day as a public holiday — in the U.S.A. at least.

Click on the Image for the Full-Sized PSA

(I don’t know about anyone else, but I detect a little bit of Western World smugness in this celebration of children…or maybe I’m just being overly cynical.)

This PSA was written by Jack Schiff with art by Bernard Bailey. It was sent my way by the industrious H over at The Comic Treadmill.

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4 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Children of Tomorrow ”

  1. Eric Henry
    October 23rd, 2007 at 2:35 am

    Not a public holiday here in Oz either.

  2. C
    October 23rd, 2007 at 6:27 am

    Actually I don’t believe it is Western smugness. Just look at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child yourself (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm). Two big problems: nicely ambiguous langage, and numerous reservations (for example: “The Government of the Republic of Afghanistan reserves the right to express, upon ratifying the Convention, reservations on all provisions of the Convention that are incompatible with the laws of Islamic Shari’a and the local legislation in effect.”) I should point out that Afganistan was just the first in an alphabetical and very long list which includes Germany, Australia, Switzerland, and the UK to name a few Western countries (Afganistan convinently makes the shortest effective example). It’s hard to be “smug” about that in any medium. “Idealistic” maybe more appropriate for the comic.

  3. Eric Henry
    October 24th, 2007 at 2:55 am

    Still no public holiday, but my local community radio station did decide to celebrate United Nations Day today by playing music from each of the current member countries of UN Security Council.

  4. Will
    October 24th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    Since you seem to be big fan of comic book blogs, you should check out this one:

    http://nadshot.com

    A comic book blog dedicated to scenes of people being hit in the groin.

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