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Source: The Guardian
Cartoonist Wiley Miller included the message We fondly say go fuck yourself to Trump in the comic Non Sequitur
Sam Wolfson
Mon 11 Feb 2019 16.28 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Feb 2019 17.12 GMT
A syndicated comic strip has been discontinued by a Pennsylvania newspaper after an obscene anti-Trump message was found hidden in one of its panels.
The offending cartoon showed a bear called Leonardo Bear-Vinci assembling a flying machine, with sketches similar to Leonardo da Vincis. The drawings include mostly illegible scrawled notes, but in the corner one of the scrawls reads: We fondly say go fuck yourself to Trump.
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The strip was an edition of Non Sequitur, a comic created by cartoonist Wiley Miller, which is printed in more than 700 newspapers. It has been running since 1992 and is better known for genteel political satire.
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This will be news to readers of the Butler Eagle, a conservative family-owned local paper in Pennsylvania, as the comic was missing from Mondays edition.
The publisher and general manager, Ron Vodenichar, was incensed about the bear cartoon, writing on the papers website: We apologize that such a disgusting trick was perpetuated [sic] on the reading public The Butler Eagle will discontinue that comic immediately.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/11/comic-strip-anti-trump-message-banned-leonardo-bear-vinci
royable
(1,264 posts)it seems a bit of a stretch to read the scrawled message as saying exactly that. For instance, I see no hint of an "s" where the would "say" would be. Also, not that I disagree with the sentiments expressed, but I'd rather that Wiley had left out the word "fondly."
Initech
(100,065 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)If it was so well hidden, who cares? This paper succeeded in getting more people to look at it.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)... which got the strip banned in some papers-- Mark giving his considered opinion about Nixon's horrible AG John Mitchell: "Guilty, guilty, guilty!"
https://readingdoonesbury.com/2017/10/25/this-week-in-doonesbury-guilty-guilty-guilty/
dawg day
(7,947 posts)(echo -- guiltyguiltyguilty)
"Just a flashback!"
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2017/10/22
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)thucythucy
(8,047 posts)in what was presumably a prepared statement, obviously didn't see the difference between "perpetrated" and "perpetuated."
That offends me more than any hidden message in a cartoon.
royable
(1,264 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)I buy the Sunday paper just to see it