SELECTED TRUMP COMMENTS ON PAST FUSCO STRIPS

ART MEETS POLITICS MEETS HAIR

Whenever I do an anti-Trump Fusco Brothers strip, I get hate-comments from Trump fans.

Who knew they would defend his hair?

And a crosshatching reference IS original, damn it.

HATE MAIL

WHINE IN A BOX

Apparently, I've ve been making fun of wine in a box for a long time. This would be bad enough on it's own, but the fact that I have "the ability to influence millions of Americans" (HA!) makes it all the more reprehensible.

SCHOLLE CORPORATION

August 23, 2002

J.C. Duffy, Creator

"The Fusco Brothers" Comic Strip

Dear Mr. Duffy:

I am writing regarding your "The Fusco Brothers" comic strip of August 22 in

which you depict a couple drinking, and disparaging, "Wine in a Box." I

would like to draw the following to your attention:

The bag-in-box concept, invented by Scholle Corporation nearly 50 years ago,

is a unique and technically superior packaging concept that has garnered

many awards and is enjoyed by many millions of people around the world on a

daily basis.

Here in North America, if you drink Coca-Cola dispensed from a soda

fountain, the syrup is likely stored in and dispensed from bag-in-box in a

cabinet nearby. If you dispense milk in a school cafeteria, chances are it

is packed in bag-in-box. If you eat processed tomatoes in any form, those

tomatoes at one time were very likely stored in bag-in-box. And so it goes.

In the U.S., more supermarket wine (by volume) is consumed from a box than

from a bottle. In Australia, more wine overall is consumed from the "wine

cask," as they call it, a packaging concept that has revolutionized how

Australians consume wine. In fact, there are a number of premium wines in

Australia that are quite good and of a higher quality than many bottled

wines. In Europe, bag-in-box wines are among the fastest growing

segments-yes, even wine-snobbish Europeans are recognizing the superiority

of bag-in-box for convenience and for maintaining the quality of the wine

long after it is opened.

It is only in the U.S. that wineries have chosen to limit the use of this

excellent packaging concept to lower quality "jug" wines, and that people

like yourself with the ability to influence millions of Americans choose to

further denigrate the image of the package through the media.. What's a

packaging manufacturer to do?

By the way, if you had personally tried bag-in-box wine, you would know that

it doesn't pour from the corner but dispenses conveniently from a spout at

the bottom of the package. I encourage you to buy a box of Franzia or Peter

Vella brand and experience it for yourself. We at Scholle would be most

grateful.

Cordially,

Roberta J. Morris

Director, Marketing Communications

MORE FAMILY FARE

Here's one reader's reaction to the above Fusco strip from this past Sunday:

I subscribe to the San Diego Union Tribune Sunday Paper and was SHOCKED to see this Sunday's Fusco Brothers cartoon talking about horse sex in a hotel. Are you kidding me???? These cartoon pages have Peanuts, Dennis the Menace and other kid friendly cartoons. I understand that some comics are not "ha-ha" funny like Doonesbury. But they are not disgusting with references to animal sex.

This type of humor is more appropriate for a night club with drunk people, not a family newspaper. Someone needs to talk to Fusco-- this type of "humor" belongs in the toilet, not in the Sunday Comics.

Actually, what this reader doesn't know is that I originally wanted to make it sex between a horse and some other species, and that this was my toned-down version.

Who knew that Doonesbury was "ha-ha" funny?

Who knew that a night club with drunk people was such a fun place? (I'll have to look into this.)

But I WILL "talk to Fusco" about this.

MINDLESS GARBAGE

In putting together my wildly enthusiastic previous post celebrating Fusco's 20th anniversary, I came across this letter, which appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News back in 1993. I blacked out the name of the woman who wrote it to avoid a pesky lawsuit.

I don't remember what the dialogue was in this strip, but it had to be funnier than her summary.

I wonder if her daughter, who would be 24 years old now, became a floozy because of the Fusco Brothers.

One can only hope.