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Art tends to draw fringe personalities. Be they left-wing or right-wing, sexually liberated or restrictive, bearing funny ideas on everything from drugs to health care to [[Serious Business|the wearing of funny hats on Sundays]], creative types usually have their ideas and stick to them. Usually, however, they manage to stay separate from the work, or if they're worked in, they're blended in a way that adds to the quality of the work or at least doesn't detract from the main thrill ride.
There are some cases, however, where a strange combination of the author's prestige, personal life, and political bent causes things to take a strong shift. Suddenly, you're cracking open the latest book in a rollicking fantasy series and there's [[Author Tract|a hundred page section on how people wearing funny hats on Sunday should be sentenced to death by firing squad]]. Where once there was flirting, things have gotten hideously porny. Where once there was fun military action, there are now long sections on the moral failings of the Clinton Administration. Something has cracked, and the author has ended up firmly in
The phenomenon was first noted by author [[James Nicoll]] on the rec.arts.sf [[UseNet|newsgroup]] and dubbed "The Brain Eater" in relation to authors [[Poul Anderson]] and [[James P. Hogan]]. It is a certain form of [[Protection From Editors]] which allows the author to freely enter [[Author Tract]] territory or spout off on their views without fear of repercussion. For interest of clarification, it does not apply to authors such as [[China Mieville]] (whose works have always approached the matter from a socialist angle) or [[Ayn Rand]] (who pretty much wrote as a means of demonstrating [[Objectivism]]). For
For the ''other'' type of Brain Eater, see [[Brain Food]].
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* Then there was ''[[BC]]''. It started as a gag strip about cavemen with a few [[Unfortunate Implications]], then in Johnny Hart's later years, he stripped out most of the jokes in favour of anviltastic Christian themes. When he passed away in 2007, his grandchildren took a meat cleaver to the hardcore religious stuff and made it a gag strip again.
== Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy ==
* [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-right-wing-watermelon-smashing-maniac/Content?oid=4357855 This article] from Seattle alt-weekly ''The Stranger'' seems to indicate that Gallagher (yes, he of the watermelon smashing) has fallen hard into this, with one of his recent shows focused on ranting against the French, women's lib, tattoos, and homosexuality (a ''lot'' in the latter case), with the show ending with Gallagher smashing a pie tin of something and screaming, "This is the China people and the queers!"
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