Editing Tarring and feathering (section)

===Comics===
The punishment of tarring and feathering in the [[American Old West]] has been "forever more given to posterity in comics".<ref name=Benham>{{cite conference |url=https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/75643/1/10)%20Jenny%20Benham.pdf |title=Law, Language and Crime in Denmark and England: A Comparative Approach |last=Benham |first=Jenny |editor1-last=Andersen |editor1-first=Per |editor2-last=Salonen |editor2-first=Kirsi |editor3-last=Sigh |editor3-first=Helle I. M. |editor4-last=Vogt |editor4-first=Helle |date=2013 |publisher=[[Djoef Publishing]] |book-title=How Nordic Are the Nordic Medieval Laws? - Ten Years After |location= |conference=Tenth Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Legal History 2013 |isbn=978-8757432251}}</ref> It is used in ironic fashion in the comic series ''[[Lucky Luke]]'', where a number of antagonists, usually cardsharps and swindlers, are shown tarred and feathered.<ref name=Uther/><ref name=Benham/><ref name="Burns 2015">{{cite web |last=Burns |first=Janet |title=A Brief, Sticky History of Tarring and Feathering |website=Mental Floss |date=August 6, 2015 |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66830/brief-sticky-history-tarring-and-feathering |access-date=May 12, 2023}}</ref> In [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Terror of the Transvaal]]'' (1993), the sixth chapter of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', syrup and feathers are used to punish a treacherous thief.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kontturi |first=Katja |editor1-last=Genc |editor1-first=Burcu |editor2-last=Lenhardt |editor2-first=Corinna |date=2011 |title=Global Perspectives on Villains and Villainy Today |url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9781848880528/BP000016.xml |publisher=Inter-Disciplinary Press |chapter=The Triumvirate of Evil: The Major Villains in Don Rosa's Donald Duck Comics |page=142 |isbn=978-1-84888-052-8 |doi=10.1163/9781848880528_016}}</ref>
[[File:A tarred and feathered man standing on hands and feet with a rope attached to upper thighs and held by a man standing at left; the man on all fours looks back at a wild-eyed devil standing LCCN2004673301.jpg|thumb|250px|British satirical mezzotint print of a tarred and feathered man (1770)]]