‘Non Sequitur’ comic strip dropped by newspapers over hidden Trump profanity
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The Sunday comic strip appeared in black and white, and encouraged readers to color in its panels. The profane message appeared in the bottom right of the comic’s second panel.
The Butler Eagles wasn’t alone. The Dallas Morning News also announced it would be dropping the comic strip, which editor Mike Wilson called one of “the easier editing decisions we will make all year."
Unfortunately, this time the artist decided to go around his editors and even his own syndicate to publish something he must have known we wouldn’t accept. We can’t trust him, so we are done with Non Sequitur,” Wilson said. "We’ll have no trouble finding a better way to spend the $8,000 we would’ve paid for that strip.”
According to Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes Non Sequitur to more than 700 newspapers across the country, the inclusion of the profane message was an oversight in its editing process. The syndicate confirmed to the Washington Post at least a dozen newspapers have dropped the strip in response.
Miller declined to comment when reached by the Inquirer, but told the Washington Post he had forgotten he drew in a message to the president until he opened up his newspaper on Sunday.
“It was not intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to," Miller told the Post. “Had I intended to make a statement to be understood by the readers, I would have done so in a more subtle, sophisticated manner.”
That didn’t stop Miller from hinting at the hidden message on Twitter, writing that, "Some of my sharp-eyed readers have spotted a little Easter egg from Leonardo Bear-Vinci.”
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