2008-05-30

Color comic. A yellow caption box at the top reads, "I shouldn't have been allowed inside the fat activism convention." In a dim room, a man holding a notepad stands with his back to us, facing two people seated behind a long table (a convention panel setup, with a book on the table). The man says, "Hi, I've been hearing a persistent rumor, and I'd like your perspective. Is it true that when you sit around the house you REALLY sit around the house?" The seated panelists look unimpressed. The joke is the man weaponizing the old fat-joke pun ("sit around the house") as a faux-earnest research question at a fat-acceptance event. Votey (aftercomic): a loose black-and-white sketch of a person gesturing, saying, "Research is ongoing."