Vintage AA Comic Strips Ethan Persoffis no stranger to the Picks team; we featured his marvelous Martin Luther King comic selection earlier this year. We don't like to play favorites, but Ethan's back again with more vintage goodness. This time he's highlighting the earlier days of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here are 95 cartoon pages demonstrating how alcoholism was treated throughout the late 1960s and early '70s. The subject is no laughing matter, but you can't help chuckling at how different society's values were back then. Women like Alice didn't question their status, and it was fine for Joe to have fun with his pals at the bar. Back then, Al-Anon had to prove it wasn't a religious organization, and was full of decent, honorable people with a genuine medical problem, despite what those pesky kids may have thought. Nevertheless, the pertinence of these comics still rings true today. (in Health > Diseases and Conditions)
