This comic interested me on a number of levels. The artwork is fantastic. If he was influenced Raymond, he learned a lot. From an historical perspective, the background art and the narrative evoke a better time when it was possible for American workers to live a fine life with a decent standard of living. Good paying jobs with benefits and on-the-job protections. Some folks today subscribe to the fact that our reality, where the economy has be gerryrigged to the benefit of the Uber rich, the destruction of the middle class, the elimination of good paying jobs, is a dystopia compared to what might have been.
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Cliff Merritt Sets the Record Straight