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- Oct 2, 2013
So the Wogglebug, is he supposed to look like a sambo caricature? Because I don't want a racially insensitive bug teaching our children about manners.
Funny you should mention that!
The Woggle-Bug Book, the only real solo adventure the Bug ever got (until Bugfuck came along), is kind of infamous among Oz fans for being racist. As in dropping-the-N-bomb racist. Well, published in 1905, you give it some leeway. But there's also been some question of whether the Wogglebug itself is based on the Golliwogs. For comparison, here's a Golliwog...
...and here's a Wogglebug.