Ok…. I went to get Tony’s question…
Though, once again, I feel like I stepped through the looking glass….
cos it’s only vaguely related, if that, to today’s strip.
He’s asking “What’s on TV?”
Is he really asking whether or not the current program contains “naughty” language?
I don’t watch TV any more, not since the country went digital and my antenna stayed analog….
so honestly, I haven’t a clue.
But I can tell you that I’ve seen a few comic strips lately where the language would curl your hair, were you of particularly fragile construction…
which I have to admit (though perhaps shocking some of you), I am not.
But those are web comics…. anything intended for publishing in newspapers is much more censored….
as are we, who post on GoComics…. even if the language IN the strip where we’re commenting is rough.
So it’s the newspapers, trying to keep their content saleable for family consumption….
and sites like GoComics, which is run by a publisher who sells content to newspapers, and so attempts to do the same…
that keep Peter from expressing himself in ways pretty common to his generation
September 13, 2014
Ok…. I went to get Tony’s question…
Though, once again, I feel like I stepped through the looking glass….
cos it’s only vaguely related, if that, to today’s strip.
He’s asking “What’s on TV?”
Is he really asking whether or not the current program contains “naughty” language?
I don’t watch TV any more, not since the country went digital and my antenna stayed analog….
so honestly, I haven’t a clue.
But I can tell you that I’ve seen a few comic strips lately where the language would curl your hair, were you of particularly fragile construction…
which I have to admit (though perhaps shocking some of you), I am not.
But those are web comics…. anything intended for publishing in newspapers is much more censored….
as are we, who post on GoComics…. even if the language IN the strip where we’re commenting is rough.
So it’s the newspapers, trying to keep their content saleable for family consumption….
and sites like GoComics, which is run by a publisher who sells content to newspapers, and so attempts to do the same…
that keep Peter from expressing himself in ways pretty common to his generation