Louisiana writer and cartoonist Greg Peters passed away last week at age 50.
His long-running subversive comic strips Suspect Device and Snake Oil, forerunners to strips like Get Your War On, satirized politics and politicians, especially in Louisiana.
Or, in Peters’s own words, “My message is kind of an emperor’s new clothes thing: I’m making fun of them, but I’m also trying to remind people that you have a choice. And if you don’t get involved in it, then it’s going to continue…”
Peters’s humor and intelligence will be sorely missed.
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Thank you so much for this from all of Greg’s friends. He was not only a powerful cartoonist but also a fine writer, as fans of his Suspect Device blog knew. (He came to Louisiana to work on a PhD in English at the University of Lafayette). He’ll best be remembered as one of the seminal cartoonists vamping on punk design to create powerful commentary.
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