Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 19, 2019

My local newspaper, San Jose Mercury News, dropped Miller’s strip last week after the Trump f-u incident…Glad I can still read his stuff here.

“What’s the difference?”

“About a hundred pounds of self-righteous smugness.”

Thought of “Elementary” first, then Danae’s entrepreneourial persona. What lies in her future?

Does’t she need a bigger horse for this? Oh right, its the sulfur and mercaptans in the gas that does it.

Lucy’s loo? I hope Lucy Liu doesn’t sue…

Sounds like they multiplied.

Carl? I thought his name was Ivan

It was dropped in the Everett Herald also.

Newspapers by their very nature should be broader minded and more ‘global’ in philosophy than to kau tau to a narrow segment of the public. But, over the decades, the changes in ownership to the ‘moneyed interests’ has narrowed their focus to favor special interests.

Danae is lucky to be able to express the frustrations each of us directs toward hackers and robocalls. Bet a lot of readers would like the same opportunity in some form.

Yeah, you can change the name but the villainy continues. Once boot leggers, drug dealers and other nefarious sorts get enough money they try to go legit. Perhaps that is business evolution?

If your local paper dropped the strip and you disagree with that decision, let the paper know. If the supporters outweigh the complainers, some papers will reverse their decision. Cancel your subscription until they start carrying the strip again. Subscribe to a paper that still runs it. Write a letter to the editor supporting the strip. There’s action you can take, same as for those who were offended by the strip.

On the subject of “let ’er rip, Lucy”, google: Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack Krebs

At least you still have a newspaper. All we have left is the “Not so Grand Rapids” Amway Ass Kissing Gazzet.

Mine did too …………..Chattanooga

If you own the press (newspaper) you have the freedom to decide what is published. Wiley doesn’t own the Oregonian, although I wish he did

Agree!

Actually, I suspect the outrage was more about the obscenity than the “trump”. And about tastelessness more than politics.

My paper dropped it also! And we are in a Democratic town! They replaced it with NANCY! Horrible.

Newspaper? They still print those?

The Kansas City Star joined the other cowardly newspapers in dropping the strip. (To add insult to injury, they replaced it with “Nancy”!) But they printed (mutltiple times) Trump’s idiotic comments about bleephole countries and his contemptible comments about grabbing bleep, WITHOUT the bleeps. To paraphrase conservative pundit George Will’s comment about Trump, “What a sad, embarrassing wreck of a newspaper.”

I dropped my local newspaper subscription after 30+ years after it dropped Miller’s strip, I too wish to support open access to critical thinkers like our socially conscious cartoonists.

Really, San Jose? I thought that paper was pretty liberal. It’s all so stoopid!! Poor readers are missing out on some serious early morning laughs (oxymoron), LOL!!

So, YOU demand that the newspaper support your right to be rude over the vast majority that request a little civility?

Now they have “Erased” that writ on the lower right corner, The good news is no one will ever erase it from my brain, and from everyone else’s brains neither, Thanks Wiley !

that’s why I signed up here

Papers practicing censorship

Can’t believe my paper, The Miami Herald dropped this strip. I’m dropping them

Me too.

Boycott censorship!

People who can call themselves entrepreneurs with a straight face deserve the bolgia where they stand on their heads in ordure.

Miss Lucy Loo (Rolling Down to Trinidad)

Rock-a-block, chock-a-block, roller bowler sailor, To me way hay hay ho hu!Oh, rock-a-block, chock-a-block, roller bowler sailor, We’re rollin’ down to Trinidad to see Miss Lucy Loo!

Bend your backs, take in the slack, roll me over Lucy, To me etc.Oh, bend your backs, take in the slack, roll me over Lucy We’re rollin’ etc.

The ship’s all right, the crew is tight, the Old Man’s (all in clover)**(or “never sober”)

O sing a song, O blow along, turn the blanket over

O, haul away an’ get yer pay, O Lucy’s on the towline

Hoist her high and hoist her dry, come rock an’ roll me over

Now stretch her luff, she’s high enough, the end is just in sight, boys

From Shanties from the Seven Seas, Hugill Collected in Trinidad

Rumor has it, it will be dropped her also. I hope not. It is one of my favorites.

Lucy must be special. By my observation concern for “privacy” is absolutely the last thing on a horse’s mind in doing absolutely anything and everything horses do.

Same here. Austin American Statesman. Bye bye.

I stopped reading comics in the papers when my home town paper stopped publishing Cathy…it was also her original home town paper. I wrote to them and got no response so I stopped my subscription and found my comics on line.

It wasn’t about the President, it was about the use of the “f” word.

It doesn’t make a person sound grown up, it doesn’t make a person sound cool, it’s not a substitute for “uh”, and it certainly didn’t belong in a comic specifically intended to attract children through a coloring page.

Lambasting the papers for dropping the comic is sadly misdirected. Had the statement merely been a jab at the President, they wouldn’t have blinked an eye.

It was the use of that word that triggered the censorship, not the object.

Me too

Down with the Mercury News! Hooray for Go Comics! We want non-sequitar!!!

Thank the Comic-gods that I can still keep with Wiley Miller’s exquisitely sharp and funny commentary on life here as he knows it… The Register-Guard in Eugene Oregon dropped the comic – bunch of damned idjits!!!!