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April 1, 2005


Publishers Back Away From Their Comics

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In another case of a newspaper playing pick and choose with its politically charged comic strips, the Seattle Times dropped a Scott Stantis Prickly City strip on the Terry Schiavo case. Prickly City, The Boondocks and Doonesbury are among those strips which newspaper editors seem increasingly comfortable running when they see fit, despite the fact that the dropped strips seem perfectly in line politically and tone-wise -- or, if you prefer, "are equally idiotic" -- with other strips run from that feature. The dispassion audiences may feel for these individual projects as opposed to how perhaps Doonesbury was treated by fans in the mid-1970s probably makes the practice feel less dire. Compounding matters is that barring the papers dropping the strip entirely, this kind of thing may even pay off for the strip as a kind of general publicity.

In a more direct example, a publisher apologizes for running a Signe Wilkinson cartoon, to the cartoonist's apparent and understandable dismay.
 
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