Storytime, kids. Old Ausfag here.
Back in that magical, far off time called "the 90's", there was a Tasmanian comic company called "Off Planet Press". They did "Inspector Crikey and the Toyland Murders" among others, and one week there was a new mini out from "Off Janet Press". The other cartoonists at the monthly pub meeting said "Oh yeah, it's by some feminist art collective who did a parody of Inspector Crikey", and on reading it, to my jaundiced eye it was obviously the same guys, they had very particular styles, and I could always tell who had drawn what. Back then I could count the active Aussie female cartoonists on two hands, and the competent ones on one, and I knew their styles and the only one good enough to draw convincingly in someone else's style fucking hated feminists and the old skinhead would have sooner swallowed razorblades than work with a "feminist art collective".
The stories were the same as usual, with a running theme of having "Milo-induced homophobic nightmares", followed by a passionate plea to "Don't take Tasmanian discrimination laws seriously", whatever the hell that meant, the message was pretty muddled, but at the time Tasmania was discussing legalising homosexuality, gay sex was illegal there until 1997.
There was discussion of who had drawn the comic and what they were trying to say, first the consensus was to take it at face value, and that it was by some uncredited female artists we'd never heard of, then we thought it was by Off Planet themselves, and it was some pro-gay reformist thing, but then it came down the pipeline that Off Planet had visited the mainland, the local cartoonists had taken them to the pub for a meet and greet, and everything was fine, until one of the Tasmanians spotted a gay couple, and launched into a ten minute long rant on why all the gays should be exterminated.
So, in that light, it was realised that Off Janet was actually an attempt at anti-gay propaganda, but so badly written that no-one knew.
