...the cartoon had been written almost a year previously and that Davis, who had a brother who served in Vietnam and a son who served in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine, had not known when it was going to appear.I hope this is correct. If it is, then it suggests the syndicate in charge of distribution (Universal Press? I know he stopped relying upon United Features in 1994) held it back deliberately until now. In that case, maybe the distribution syndicate owes an apology.
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Garfield's Jim Davis blew it
Reuters reports that a Garfield strip ran on Thursday that many saw as insulting to Armistice/Veterans Day. Jim Davis has at least apologized, and said:
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