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Our weekly independent carries Slowpoke so it will be a nice tweak to our daily.
Wed Mar 21, 2012
by Jen Sorensen
Comic strip controversy
20 Comments
As you might have guessed, this one is about last week's Doonesbury strips, which over 50 newspapers refused to print. Personally, I'm surprised the number was that high. I may be an easy audience, but I thought the strips were witty and tastefully done. Thursday's comic was intense, but it was hardly in poor taste. Have these editors not seen reality television lately? Compared to that, last week's Doonesbury read like a Lewis Lapham essay.
Notably, this week's cartoon marks the first time I've had a strip pulled in over a dozen years of drawing Slowpoke. One of my weekly papers is owned by a daily paper that decided not to run the Doonesbury strips, so the editor, who actually liked my comic, had to ask for a substitute. The layers of irony here are impressive.
For more on the Texas law, I recommend reading about this woman's experience.
Get a signed print of this cartoon from the artist.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/21/1076119/-Comic-strip-controversy
by Jen Sorensen
Comic strip controversy
20 Comments
As you might have guessed, this one is about last week's Doonesbury strips, which over 50 newspapers refused to print. Personally, I'm surprised the number was that high. I may be an easy audience, but I thought the strips were witty and tastefully done. Thursday's comic was intense, but it was hardly in poor taste. Have these editors not seen reality television lately? Compared to that, last week's Doonesbury read like a Lewis Lapham essay.
Notably, this week's cartoon marks the first time I've had a strip pulled in over a dozen years of drawing Slowpoke. One of my weekly papers is owned by a daily paper that decided not to run the Doonesbury strips, so the editor, who actually liked my comic, had to ask for a substitute. The layers of irony here are impressive.
For more on the Texas law, I recommend reading about this woman's experience.
Get a signed print of this cartoon from the artist.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/21/1076119/-Comic-strip-controversy