It Does Not Follow
February 12, 2019 7:25 PM Subscribe
"Non Sequitur" artist Wiley Miller included an "Easter Egg" in the Sunday, February 10th comic strip. Many of the 700+ newspapers that carry the syndicated strip were not pleased.
I’m impressed that at this late date people are still complaining to editors about vulgar comic strips.
posted by silby at 7:30 PM on February 12, 2019 [55 favorites]
posted by silby at 7:30 PM on February 12, 2019 [55 favorites]
I want to know what old fuddy-duddy spilled the beans.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 7:31 PM on February 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Big Al 8000 at 7:31 PM on February 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
Sharp eyed mefites will spot an easter egg in today's comment. gσ fυ¢к уσυяѕєℓf тяυмρ
posted by phunniemee at 7:38 PM on February 12, 2019 [73 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 7:38 PM on February 12, 2019 [73 favorites]
I presume these newspapers also censor Trump when he says something vulgar, which is every other day? No? Fucking hypocrites.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [31 favorites]
posted by Foci for Analysis at 7:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [31 favorites]
I want to know what old fuddy-duddy spilled the beans.
Seemingly the cartoonist himself, according to the last link. Dunno if you were serious, though.
In maybe 1978 or so, the Saturday paper in my auld hometown ran the weekly colour Wizard of Id strip which depicted an overweight guard seemingly being pursued around a tower by a fugitive criminal. The guard explains to a passerby that, no, he is actually chasing the criminal, “but the little bugger keeps lapping me!”
Reader, know that my young eyes were kept from reading this filth by the local self-appointed legion for decency who descended on the local newspaper, Sharpies in hand, and manually crossed the offensive word out of every copy of the paper. Several hundred thousand copies.
I do not know what The Wizard of Id ran the week previous or the week following, but forty-plus years later, I can tell you what it ran that week.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [34 favorites]
Seemingly the cartoonist himself, according to the last link. Dunno if you were serious, though.
In maybe 1978 or so, the Saturday paper in my auld hometown ran the weekly colour Wizard of Id strip which depicted an overweight guard seemingly being pursued around a tower by a fugitive criminal. The guard explains to a passerby that, no, he is actually chasing the criminal, “but the little bugger keeps lapping me!”
Reader, know that my young eyes were kept from reading this filth by the local self-appointed legion for decency who descended on the local newspaper, Sharpies in hand, and manually crossed the offensive word out of every copy of the paper. Several hundred thousand copies.
I do not know what The Wizard of Id ran the week previous or the week following, but forty-plus years later, I can tell you what it ran that week.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [34 favorites]
Thanks a lot phunniemee, now I have to explain to my delicate children what "¢" means.
posted by Emmy Rae at 7:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [30 favorites]
posted by Emmy Rae at 7:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [30 favorites]
Почему ты ненавидишь свободу?
У нас лучшая свобода!
Также: моча ленты.
posted by lalochezia at 7:46 PM on February 12, 2019 [11 favorites]
У нас лучшая свобода!
Также: моча ленты.
posted by lalochezia at 7:46 PM on February 12, 2019 [11 favorites]
The Butler Eagle, a family-owned newspaper north of Pittsburgh, decided to pull the strip after an irate reader alerted the newspaper.
"One of our readers has a young daughter who reads the comics. This family sits down with this comic, and they stumble across this hidden message," Ron Vodenichar, the paper's publisher and general manager, told The Washington Post.
Might I recommend wearing a turtleneck for the next week or so while the ligature marks from all of this pearl-clutching fade?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:48 PM on February 12, 2019 [20 favorites]
"One of our readers has a young daughter who reads the comics. This family sits down with this comic, and they stumble across this hidden message," Ron Vodenichar, the paper's publisher and general manager, told The Washington Post.
Might I recommend wearing a turtleneck for the next week or so while the ligature marks from all of this pearl-clutching fade?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:48 PM on February 12, 2019 [20 favorites]
The Daily Cartoonist has a report that includes the best close-up of the offending squiggle. I know I reacted to Wiley's offense... by buying his latest cartoon calendar.
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:50 PM on February 12, 2019 [18 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 7:50 PM on February 12, 2019 [18 favorites]
ricochet biscuit: which word?
posted by Emmy Rae at 7:54 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Emmy Rae at 7:54 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
I presume these newspapers also censor Trump when he says something vulgar, which is every other day?
Yeah, if I subscribed to any of these newspapers I'd be on the phone to the publisher every time they ran a story that involved Trump's offensive language at this point, continually pointing out that they removed a comic strip for having a vulgar word and that I can't understand why they did that if they're just going to let the President be vulgar on the front page.
posted by nubs at 8:04 PM on February 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
"Bugger" is a British profanity.
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:05 PM on February 12, 2019 [13 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 8:05 PM on February 12, 2019 [13 favorites]
What I'm taking away from this is that either there are no longer any editors in the comic strip business, or they're not very good at their jobs. Nobody at the syndicate caught it? And at least one of the self-righteous papers dropping the comic claimed that they never saw the strip before it was published in their own damn newspaper?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not sure why there aren't more people bursting into public profanity from day to day. Given the morally obscene shit that has been coming from the White House for the past two years, it seems ridiculous for anyone to get up in arms about a scribbled word that was apparently so illegible that nobody saw it in the eight weeks it took to get to print.
posted by Meghamora at 8:08 PM on February 12, 2019 [10 favorites]
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not sure why there aren't more people bursting into public profanity from day to day. Given the morally obscene shit that has been coming from the White House for the past two years, it seems ridiculous for anyone to get up in arms about a scribbled word that was apparently so illegible that nobody saw it in the eight weeks it took to get to print.
posted by Meghamora at 8:08 PM on February 12, 2019 [10 favorites]
Damn, Wizard of Id was international?! My mom skipped reading us certain comics that she didn't find funny enough to be worth explaining to her children, and that was one.
posted by Emmy Rae at 8:14 PM on February 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by Emmy Rae at 8:14 PM on February 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
Someone has a pretty keen eye for profanity. Very keen. A very interested eye.
posted by Capt. Renault at 8:21 PM on February 12, 2019 [11 favorites]
posted by Capt. Renault at 8:21 PM on February 12, 2019 [11 favorites]
"One of our readers has a young daughter who reads the comics. This family sits down with this comic, and they stumble across this hidden message,"
Maybe this reflects badly on me as a parent but my young (beginning reader) daughter would have been so exhiliarated to have found this message...
posted by The Toad at 8:26 PM on February 12, 2019 [16 favorites]
Maybe this reflects badly on me as a parent but my young (beginning reader) daughter would have been so exhiliarated to have found this message...
posted by The Toad at 8:26 PM on February 12, 2019 [16 favorites]
Remember, Mr. Miller had been doing the comic daily for over 25 years... he probably passed the "we need to double-check daily for troublesome things" status quite a few years ago. And the way newspaper comics are distributed nowadays - and some of the papers here bought it as part of a print-ready package - it's doubtful anybody at the newspaper end was paying attention, especially when it was one of several mostly-illegible scribbles intended to approximate DaVinci's notes... if he was a bear. I'm a long-time Wiley Miller fan and this particular Sunday strip seemed extra weird to me in it's "color it yourself" format. Of course there are newspaper comic bluenoses who closely peruse everything on the funny pages and complain loudly over the slightest indiscretion... and when they saw this, they no doubt thought they'd hit the jackpot!!
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:27 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:27 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
So we can have a President who can't even credibly denounce Nazis, but we can't cuss about it 'cause cussing is unacceptable? We sure got high standards when it comes to stuff that don't matter.
The only offensive thing about this is how inadequate a response it is to what's happening. A cuss word bad enough to accurately describe the Trump Presidency would drip through the fuckin' floor like Alien blood.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [35 favorites]
The only offensive thing about this is how inadequate a response it is to what's happening. A cuss word bad enough to accurately describe the Trump Presidency would drip through the fuckin' floor like Alien blood.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [35 favorites]
Maybe this reflects badly on me as a parent
Nah, with these people it's never really about kids anyway. Kids are just another thing for cowards to hide behind.
posted by klanawa at 8:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [32 favorites]
Nah, with these people it's never really about kids anyway. Kids are just another thing for cowards to hide behind.
posted by klanawa at 8:41 PM on February 12, 2019 [32 favorites]
Personally, I'm just bummed my local paper is still carrying Mallard.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:48 PM on February 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:48 PM on February 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
Would have been nice if they'd picked up Nancy when they dropped Non Sequitur, as well...
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:49 PM on February 12, 2019 [10 favorites]
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:49 PM on February 12, 2019 [10 favorites]
Shouldn’t Leonardo BearVinci’s handwriting be bearckwards
posted by oulipian at 9:02 PM on February 12, 2019 [32 favorites]
posted by oulipian at 9:02 PM on February 12, 2019 [32 favorites]
Oh my, all the Holden Caulfields are out in force for this.
posted by BYiro at 9:19 PM on February 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by BYiro at 9:19 PM on February 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
So we can have a President who can't even credibly denounce Nazis, but we can't cuss about it 'cause cussing is unacceptable? We sure got high standards when it comes to stuff that don't matter.
So the argument is that we should drop the high standards on everything until the President is respectable again?
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 9:23 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
So the argument is that we should drop the high standards on everything until the President is respectable again?
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 9:23 PM on February 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
Yes! Let's drop all standards! No standards for anything. Everyone gets to do everything they want!
Personally I'm going to redefine the kilogram.
posted by medusa at 9:29 PM on February 12, 2019 [28 favorites]
Personally I'm going to redefine the kilogram.
posted by medusa at 9:29 PM on February 12, 2019 [28 favorites]
I mean, Trump is a walking crime against humanity, but I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable to expect that a newspaper comic won’t have the f word in it. It’s not like this was some deep, meaningful statement of resistance.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 9:33 PM on February 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 9:33 PM on February 12, 2019 [6 favorites]
Rats. I would've been down for this as the new "NINA."
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:40 PM on February 12, 2019 [14 favorites]
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:40 PM on February 12, 2019 [14 favorites]
Genocide is obscene. Children in cages is obscene. Damning future generations to hoard a few more million dollars now is obscene. Destroying what's left of democracy in America and replacing it with a failed reality tv personality and the kakistocracy that surrounds him, that's obscene.
Words? Psssh. Words are just words.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 9:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
Words? Psssh. Words are just words.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 9:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [21 favorites]
Wow, that was quite a little snotty response in Syracuse.
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:46 PM on February 12, 2019
posted by jenfullmoon at 9:46 PM on February 12, 2019
"One of our readers has a young daughter who reads the comics. This family sits down with this comic, and they stumble across this hidden message,"
Oh dear, an offensive word on the comics page.
(Bloom County, January 14, 1988)
posted by rouftop at 10:09 PM on February 12, 2019 [24 favorites]
Oh dear, an offensive word on the comics page.
(Bloom County, January 14, 1988)
posted by rouftop at 10:09 PM on February 12, 2019 [24 favorites]
Not reading any of the articles closely, I can only assume the problem was that counter to the name of the strip, telling Trump to go fuck himself follows perfectly.
posted by ckape at 10:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by ckape at 10:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [5 favorites]
As a former newspaper editor, I feel uniquely qualified to say: Newspaper editors can be such insufferable prigs. I get that they're upset about the phone calls and e-mails they received from outraged parents and MAGA cultists. I'm sure they had an unpleasant day of making apologies and trying to keep what few subscribers they have left. And I know from painful and stupid experience how upset people get over the word "fuck" when it's in print.
But honestly, those editorials couldn't have been more holier-than-thou had they been written by bishops. I'm not standing up for Miller's little stunt, but it's not like the kids were treated to Charlie Brown humping Snoopy in four-color reproduction. These editors lack a sense of proportion.
posted by bryon at 11:06 PM on February 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
But honestly, those editorials couldn't have been more holier-than-thou had they been written by bishops. I'm not standing up for Miller's little stunt, but it's not like the kids were treated to Charlie Brown humping Snoopy in four-color reproduction. These editors lack a sense of proportion.
posted by bryon at 11:06 PM on February 12, 2019 [7 favorites]
Gosh, it's like all that "snowflake" nonsense was so much projection. Who'd have thunk it?
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 11:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [23 favorites]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 11:43 PM on February 12, 2019 [23 favorites]
What’s truly offensive is that the cartoonist hid his obscene “Go Trump!” message around the anodyne phrase “fuck yourself.”
posted by chavenet at 12:46 AM on February 13, 2019 [7 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 12:46 AM on February 13, 2019 [7 favorites]
I wish one of those newspapers would take a page from the Trump playbook and print "Go F*ck Yourself Trump" in bold letters on the front page above the fold and then see its sales go through the roof. Followed by daily front-page articles about the "failing presidency" etc.
It's certainly not serious journalism, but then again, it's not serious politics either.
posted by sour cream at 12:59 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
It's certainly not serious journalism, but then again, it's not serious politics either.
posted by sour cream at 12:59 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
Shouldn’t Leonardo BearVinci’s handwriting be bearckwards
In revurse.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:48 AM on February 13, 2019 [22 favorites]
In revurse.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 1:48 AM on February 13, 2019 [22 favorites]
So we can have a President who can't even credibly denounce Nazis, but we can't cuss about it 'cause cussing is unacceptable? We sure got high standards when it comes to stuff that don't matter.
Trump: I did try and fuck her. She was married.posted by mikelieman at 1:58 AM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
Unknown: That’s huge news.
Trump: No, no, Nancy. No, this was [unintelligible] — and I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping.
She wanted to get some furniture. I said, “I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.” I took her out furniture —
I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.
Shouldn’t Leonardo BearVinci’s handwriting be bearckwards
Ironically, if Miller had written the message in mirror writing like the real Leonardo, he probably would have gotten away with it.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:39 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Ironically, if Miller had written the message in mirror writing like the real Leonardo, he probably would have gotten away with it.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:39 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
I get that they're upset about the phone calls and e-mails they received from outraged parents and MAGA cultists
In the case of the Butler Eagle, the publishers are the MAGA cultists.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:52 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
In the case of the Butler Eagle, the publishers are the MAGA cultists.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:52 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Someone has a pretty keen eye for profanity. Very keen. A very interested eye.
There's an old story about a lexicographer who, having recently published a new dictionary, was congratulated at a party on having excised all the dirty words from it. "Aha," he replied, "so you've been looking for them."
posted by Pope Guilty at 3:55 AM on February 13, 2019 [19 favorites]
There's an old story about a lexicographer who, having recently published a new dictionary, was congratulated at a party on having excised all the dirty words from it. "Aha," he replied, "so you've been looking for them."
posted by Pope Guilty at 3:55 AM on February 13, 2019 [19 favorites]
Personally I'm going to redefine the kilogram.
No! They just got it sorted!
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:57 AM on February 13, 2019 [7 favorites]
No! They just got it sorted!
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:57 AM on February 13, 2019 [7 favorites]
It now equals one hundredth of an orange shitgibbon.
posted by Segundus at 4:45 AM on February 13, 2019
posted by Segundus at 4:45 AM on February 13, 2019
The other thing about Non Sequitur, though, is that hidden messages and hidden objects are part of Wiley's schtick. It's gotten to the point where it's as much a miniature, slightly surreal, not very difficult Where's Waldo puzzle as it is a comic.
Which means that more than other newspaper comics, real young kids are going to be scrutinizing it looking for hidden details. I feel like when that's the niche you've staked out for yourself, hiding stuff you wouldn't be allowed to put in plain sight is a pretty unwise move, since it really, really isn't going to stay hidden long.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:33 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Which means that more than other newspaper comics, real young kids are going to be scrutinizing it looking for hidden details. I feel like when that's the niche you've staked out for yourself, hiding stuff you wouldn't be allowed to put in plain sight is a pretty unwise move, since it really, really isn't going to stay hidden long.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:33 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Wow, people get really shitty about the smallest things. go fuck yourself trump
posted by h00py at 5:41 AM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by h00py at 5:41 AM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
Funny, GoComics had it unedited earlier yesterday.... I shoulda saved it.
posted by tilde at 6:01 AM on February 13, 2019
posted by tilde at 6:01 AM on February 13, 2019
I've always loved this guy's strip. To my young 90s self, other adult/political comic strips like Doonesbury and Blume Country seemed too much of a different time, and Wiley's art was just so much fun. He really blossomed in the wake of Watterson retiring, often offering the pretty thing in the sunday paper.
That all said, putting this in a coloring-book-themed sunday strip is just begging to be caught. It ensures some kids are going to study it close and kids (as we all know) are dirty snitches. I'm pretty much assuming that he did this semi-cynically to drum up awareness and sell books/calendars. I'm idly worried he might be having money problems now.
posted by es_de_bah at 6:38 AM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
That all said, putting this in a coloring-book-themed sunday strip is just begging to be caught. It ensures some kids are going to study it close and kids (as we all know) are dirty snitches. I'm pretty much assuming that he did this semi-cynically to drum up awareness and sell books/calendars. I'm idly worried he might be having money problems now.
posted by es_de_bah at 6:38 AM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Reader, know that my young eyes were kept from reading this filth by the local self-appointed legion for decency who descended on the local newspaper, Sharpies in hand, and manually crossed the offensive word out of every copy of the paper. Several hundred thousand copies.
I definitely remember that. We subscribed to the Hamilton Spectator ("The Spec") and I was verrrry intrigued by what had been worth marking out, although I never knew just exactly how it was done. Volunteers making sure I was safe from words? Huh.
posted by stevil at 6:46 AM on February 13, 2019
I definitely remember that. We subscribed to the Hamilton Spectator ("The Spec") and I was verrrry intrigued by what had been worth marking out, although I never knew just exactly how it was done. Volunteers making sure I was safe from words? Huh.
posted by stevil at 6:46 AM on February 13, 2019
I mean...really? I guess it says 'go fuck yourself trump' if you squint and turn your head sideways and squint deeper.
posted by graventy at 7:33 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by graventy at 7:33 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
if you squint and turn your head sideways and squint deeper
It's pretty easy to see what we want to see.
posted by Revvy at 8:21 AM on February 13, 2019
It's pretty easy to see what we want to see.
posted by Revvy at 8:21 AM on February 13, 2019
This reminds me of when I was a teenager and got in a screaming fight with my grandfather over him using the N-word in front of my little cousins. I used "fuck" at him and he took umbrage, and I told him I'd rather them hear me say "fuck" than hear him say that.
Really, a scrawled "fuck" in a comic strip? While all this is going on? Get some perspective, fuckers.
posted by fiercecupcake at 8:23 AM on February 13, 2019 [12 favorites]
Really, a scrawled "fuck" in a comic strip? While all this is going on? Get some perspective, fuckers.
posted by fiercecupcake at 8:23 AM on February 13, 2019 [12 favorites]
I'm honestly just impressed that there are still papers out there that print comics in a large enough size that this would be legible.
My local paper has shrunk them so much you can barely decipher the text you're supposed to be able to read let alone something like this.
posted by madajb at 8:43 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
My local paper has shrunk them so much you can barely decipher the text you're supposed to be able to read let alone something like this.
posted by madajb at 8:43 AM on February 13, 2019 [6 favorites]
Meanwhile: We Regret To Inform You Trump, Inadvertently Or Not, Has Made A 69 Joke
I didn’t think Wiley’s joke was any funnier than any fed-up friend’s latest Facebook post, but I’m sick to my teeth of these double standards. (Although, frankly, if Trump kills the 69 joke, it would be the first positive accomplishment of his term. I haaate it.)
posted by Countess Elena at 9:20 AM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
I didn’t think Wiley’s joke was any funnier than any fed-up friend’s latest Facebook post, but I’m sick to my teeth of these double standards. (Although, frankly, if Trump kills the 69 joke, it would be the first positive accomplishment of his term. I haaate it.)
posted by Countess Elena at 9:20 AM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
(rushes to the recycling bin; removes Sunday comics from the paper (yes, I still read an actual paper), puts said offending cartoon aside for posterity)
posted by annieb at 10:17 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by annieb at 10:17 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
I love Non Sequitur but this is 6th grade level Sticking It To The Man. Work subtle and keep your strips in the right-wing papers, dude.
posted by prize bull octorok at 10:26 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by prize bull octorok at 10:26 AM on February 13, 2019 [3 favorites]
I’m impressed that at this late date people are still complaining to editors about vulgar comic strips.
I don't think you understand the FIVE ALARM fire here. A man's DAUGHTER saw the word FUCK. *faints*
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 10:34 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
I don't think you understand the FIVE ALARM fire here. A man's DAUGHTER saw the word FUCK. *faints*
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 10:34 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
"Fuck" is a profanity.
Separating thousands of children from their parents and then "accidentally" losing track of them is an obscenity.
I know which one upsets me more.
posted by non canadian guy at 11:16 AM on February 13, 2019 [17 favorites]
Separating thousands of children from their parents and then "accidentally" losing track of them is an obscenity.
I know which one upsets me more.
posted by non canadian guy at 11:16 AM on February 13, 2019 [17 favorites]
Miller says he forgot all about the scribbled profanity until Sunday. "When I opened the paper Sunday morning and read my cartoon, I didn't think anything of it, as I didn't notice the scribbling that has now caught fire. It was not intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to."
That is blatantly untrue - he teased the profanity himself. He wanted it to be seen. Why do we as a society need people to lie to us about their intentions?
posted by hydra77 at 11:35 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
That is blatantly untrue - he teased the profanity himself. He wanted it to be seen. Why do we as a society need people to lie to us about their intentions?
posted by hydra77 at 11:35 AM on February 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
The artist just needed to be subtle, like this B.C., or perhaps this one.
posted by Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown at 11:51 AM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown at 11:51 AM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
The artist just needed to be subtle, like this B.C., or perhaps this one.
Of course, B.C. creator Johnny Hart was also the co-writer for The Wizard of Id, so he may well have been responsible for the "little bugger" gag that ricochet biscuit alludes to above. Life is funny.
posted by non canadian guy at 12:50 PM on February 13, 2019
Of course, B.C. creator Johnny Hart was also the co-writer for The Wizard of Id, so he may well have been responsible for the "little bugger" gag that ricochet biscuit alludes to above. Life is funny.
posted by non canadian guy at 12:50 PM on February 13, 2019
Oh, Johnny Hart. "What would be the perfect comic strip vehicle for promoting Christianity? I know! A caveman strip set thousands of years before Christ, where they for some reason still celebrate Easter and Christmas!"
posted by skullhead at 1:22 PM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by skullhead at 1:22 PM on February 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Non Sequitur has already been dropped from our local paper. Sad, really, it's about the only current and interesting strip left. Guess I'll read it on line.
posted by corvikate at 1:46 PM on February 13, 2019
posted by corvikate at 1:46 PM on February 13, 2019
That bear-as-Vitruvian-man is frikken golden, why aren’t we talking about that
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:26 PM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:26 PM on February 13, 2019 [5 favorites]
Every time
A cartoonist
Tries to drop in
Some
Hint of
Inflammatory
Text
Maligning
Authoritarian or ideologically
Libertarian figures--
Leftists are fair game, of course--
All the syndicates indignantly
Rant and rave about civil
Discourse
posted by duffell at 12:51 PM on February 14, 2019 [5 favorites]
A cartoonist
Tries to drop in
Some
Hint of
Inflammatory
Text
Maligning
Authoritarian or ideologically
Libertarian figures--
Leftists are fair game, of course--
All the syndicates indignantly
Rant and rave about civil
Discourse
posted by duffell at 12:51 PM on February 14, 2019 [5 favorites]
One week later, a self-censoring Doonesbury.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:55 PM on February 16, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:55 PM on February 16, 2019 [1 favorite]
And today is the 27th Anniversary of Non Sequitur... will it make it to 28?
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:20 PM on February 16, 2019
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:20 PM on February 16, 2019
Not in the Palm Beach Post, which I presume is delivered to Mar A Lago.
posted by tilde at 7:47 PM on February 18, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by tilde at 7:47 PM on February 18, 2019 [1 favorite]
The text is so illegible, even when enlarged, that i think he could have gotten away with saying that the pearl-clutchers were imagining it. In fact if the artist didn't admit it already, i would have thought that it was just a scribble that got misinterpreted. I guess we should applaud him for his honesty.
posted by ambulocetus at 4:22 PM on February 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by ambulocetus at 4:22 PM on February 21, 2019 [1 favorite]
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