If you were wondering whether Anthony Comstock was still ridiculed for being a dweeb who found everything terrifying in its lewdness, the answer is yes, of course he was. The humor magazine Puck published one of the better-known cartoons about him, featuring a woman exclaiming, “O, dear me, what shall I do? My shoestring has come untied, and there’s that dreadful Anthony Comstock just behind me!”23 A particularly cheeky piece by Robert Minor depicts Comstock dragging a woman before a judge and exclaiming, “Your honor, this woman gave birth to a naked child!”
