Little Red Riding Hood

This comic strip about Little Red Riding Hood has humor in every frame. The issues that it mocks are the everyday political issues and social issues in which we all face and how this cartoon, unlike the fairy tale story, is not children friendly. Every aspect of the cartoon is for an adult audience. Little Red Riding Hood is not a beautiful, innocent and young girl, first of all, and she is portrayed as more of a hideous, annoying girl who anyone would like to get away from. She uses maze and brass knuckles to “fight off” the wolf when he is trying to get her to “SHURRUP”. This image of LRRH is not the image the Brothers’ Grimm would portray.

The first three frames refer to beauty in society. The wolf does not like LRRH because she criticizes his facial features and refers to changing those features like how we are able to do so in society today. Plastic surgery is a large social issue in today’s society. The celebrities like Michael Jackson conclude that anything can be changed in this world and for younger children that is a horrible example to set.

When the Woodcutter appears through the door, LRRH does not want him to rescue her like in the fairy tale story because she wants to prove that women do not need men to always save them, which happens so often. The woodcutter instead of saving LRRH, he saves the wolf by cutting off her head because she is harming the “Endangered Species”. This political view point is making fun of the environmentalist in society and how over-the-top they can be.

The cartoon caught my attention immediately because of all the bright colors and the humorous irony. In the five frames LRRH was in, she had her mouth hanging open. Not only did the humorous aspect catch my eye but I also like how when you study it and pull each aspect apart the cartoon turns into something larger than just a cartoon strip to create a laugh here and there. It made me think and analyze the different issues in which the author brought my attention to.