The most disturbing example might be Charlie the Tuna, who is still begging to be eaten after fifty years. I revisited this topic five years later, with this color piece in Hyena, a great comics anthology that was edited by my pal Mark Martin.
Amazingly, advertisers still use this inexplicable ploy:
The nauseating Hot Pockets Sideshots characters (2011)
The thing is...some species of tuna actually do live for many decades, right?
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