Does this comic offend you?
Apparently Scott Adams thought it might bother some newspaper editors. Today's Dilbert strip was sent with an alternative, in which the last panel was covered by a sign saying something like the content might offend some readers (I'm going by memory). We chose to publish the original.
A related note: Newspaper editors take their comics seriously because readers do. The Charlotte Observer yesterday announced the restoration of one of the comics it canceled. More than 6,000 votes came in for Cathy. Cathy!
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Thank you for your decision. Sometimes, humor requires courage.
Posted on May 17, 2005 10:38 AM
Almost every newspaper at which I've worked has taken heat for its decisions about comics - sometimes far more than any of the other content in the paper.
I guess you guys got your bit of it with Mark Trail.
Funny story about that:
I was interning in the Life section when Mark Trail was cancelled and Sally Buffalo spent something like two days answering angry phone calls (mostly from older folks who had been reading Trail for decades). At the end of the second day I went to a family reunion with my girlfriend. Her grandfather asked me what I was up to and I told him about the N&R a bit, then launched into what I thought was the hilarious story of how pissed people were about Mark Trail's departure.
He stopped me two sentences in.
"You bet I'm angry," he said. "They cancelled it in the middle of a storyline! How are we ever going to know what happened? I've been reading Mark Trail for..."
I suggested he could read it for free online - which is true. He sort of huffed at me, as though I had suggested he could cook bake a turkey with his telephone.
But even Mark Trail's more understandable than Cathy. Cathy's one of those strips that, if it were a horse, would have been shot years ago.
Posted on May 20, 2005 12:24 PM