Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 23, 2019

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Just remember to be nice to Ms Nancy. She might be a sweet lItalian Gran mamma, but under that velvet glove is a fist of iron.

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    Watcher  over 5 years ago

    You have to think ahead to your next target Danae. Don’t let this become a one hit wonder.

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    Dtroutma  over 5 years ago

    Danae wearing all white??

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    sirbadger  over 5 years ago

    When she first went down that hole, we assumed that she was being stupid, but maybe not.

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 5 years ago

    I thought that WAS Nancy…..in her younger days.

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    amethyst52 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Still in the Seattle Times.

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    gordoncrawford4  over 5 years ago

    From the African kingdom of Swaziland – I salute you Jill for making a stand. Wether one agrees with your stand or not is not relavant to me. It is encouraging to see the fact that people such as yourself are prepared to stand up for what they believe. Well done.Malangabi of Eswatini

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    oakie817  over 5 years ago

    he apologized and said it was accident…forgot to erase it from what was submitted…I forgive him and so should you all….he’s a gifted cartoonist I enjoy reading…..and i’m a journalism student…all the editors speaking out…why weren’t you doing your jobs of editing? you’re the ones that published it, it should have been caught….copyediting was my specialty and I see terrible mistakes in print and online every day….I spotted it instantly…stood out to me, as mistakes often do

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    knittyditty  over 5 years ago

    Ok I must have missed something. What cartoon is he referring to?

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    khmo  over 5 years ago

    This day’s strip? What the heck is she bemoaning? perhaps she should join Pelosi’s staff!

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 5 years ago

    Looks like a memorial white hackers would erect.

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    Masterskrain  over 5 years ago

    Now THAT should make Comrade-cadet Bonespurs-trumpski, the RUSSIAN AGENT, shake in his golf shoes! Danae and Nancy, truly the Dynamic Duo!

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    Omniman  over 5 years ago

    I’ve long enjoyed the comic, and still do. That stunt was just stupid, though.

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    silverking1953  over 5 years ago

    Too much drama! People need to lighten up! Sheesh!

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    katfromky  over 5 years ago

    Cowards! Please reconsider your knee-jerk reaction. When we have a person in WH who wants to censor words we must use every tool to fight back, not cave in!

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    russef  over 5 years ago

    Didn’t know Tucson Arizona had a newspaper. Guess I won’t miss it.

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    russef  over 5 years ago

    Last time I was in Tucson there were only 2 things there. The Sonora desert and the Sonora Desert Museum. I hear Tucson has been filled with deserters from the east.

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    Mominexile Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Thank you to GoComics for continuing to run this outstanding strip.

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    ajnotales  over 5 years ago

    Sorry, but I don’t agree with your conclusion. I’d like to see this strip continue.

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    dandye  over 5 years ago

    A nasty act just to make a political comment. Such a lack of taste!

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    ajr58  over 5 years ago

    Flood her email box. Bring it back!

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    tripwire45  over 5 years ago

    Nancy Pelosi? Yikes. I thought better of Danae.

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    rorie  over 5 years ago

    Excuse me, but for over 2 years we have heard the pretend POTUS mock, rant, incite, LIE, and curse while also tweeting constantly and it continues at all hours. Families, and that includes children, watch TV and have been introduced to a whole new level of nastiness and idiocy while the pres. gives interviews and speeches. Mr. Wiley didn’t write anything that America loving people haven’t thought and said many times since that bloated man came down that escalator.

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    palos  over 5 years ago

    With all due respect Ms. Spitz, I find your action to alter Wiley’s cartoon/comic, which does have a copyright, to be more offensive than the phrase GoComics chose to delete. Article 5 of the Terms & Conditions provides " Andrews McMeel Universal will not tolerate copyright infringement…" Perhaps your contracts with the artists allow altering their work, but I doubt the same. Your statement is ambiguous whether GoComics has chosen to “take away” the cartoon/comic that ran February 10, 2019 in its original form or will be cancelling your contract with Wiley to run Non Sequitur. That is an egregious error for an Editor.

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    piobaire  over 5 years ago

    The decision to remove Non Sequitur is an over-reaction, in my humble opinion. I hope G0Comics will reconsider.

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    wagnertinatlanta  over 5 years ago

    Waitaminute! Jill Jorden Spitz’s email address — tucson.com — belongs to the Arizona Daily Star. I doubt that she speaks for GoComics. Not that this isn’t a perfect example of editorial cowardice. It takes more courage to speak truth to the masses who don’t want to hear it than to speak truth to power who might resent it.

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    bugznbunnies  over 5 years ago

    So criticizing the Trumpkin is not allowed, but his incessant lying, bullying attacks on others, disgracing the office he holds, and attacking the nation’s allies is fine? The comics are available elsewhere.

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    ShortStraw  over 5 years ago

    So 1 ego maniac working for an even bigger ego maniac.

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    Donald DeVeny Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I never could find the so-called outrage.

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    scottbruce  over 5 years ago

    Jill, No need to apologize, I understand Wiley’s right to free speech but people also have the right not to listen and rebroadcast (vulgar, hate filled, offensive) speech; especially in comics where children often learn to read. I like Non Sequitur and I hope someday Wiley will appreciate what President Trump is trying to do to make America great again.

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    scottbruce  over 5 years ago

    Did the septic system delivery truck get its material from draining the swamp in Washington? If so, The Battle of Hacker Hole was truly diabolical.

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    micromos  over 5 years ago

    I missed the whole thing but don’t think too many readers are that offended but I agree with your decision. If not now, when will it be too late to correct.

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    ProudBluenoser  over 5 years ago

    arcamax has this stripe and has not caved.

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    ProudBluenoser  over 5 years ago

    Sorry. Strip.

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    majkmushrm Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Well, go-comics isn’t the only shop on the block. Non-sequitur will appear somewhere else. If you’d be so kind as to tell us where that is when he moves, I’d appreciate it. Then I can drop my go-comics premium membership. If you can react all out of proportion to the situation, so can I. OBTW, I seriously doubt that Mr. Miller considers himself your employee….

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    Dr. Silly  over 5 years ago

    It seems a lot of people here are addressing their comments and thoughts directly to Jorden Spitz as if she actually posted that here and might read it here. She didn’t post here and she’s not seeing your response. Odd dog posted her letter to him/her. If you want to her to read your opinion, you should send it to the email address provided on the letter.

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    rlaker22j  over 5 years ago

    Congratulations Wiley you have a multitude of fans probably more than Trump you should run for president

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    Wasiechu  over 5 years ago

    In the military this is called “Inattention to detail.” People become complacent and fail to do their jobs. Our local paper dropped the strip with the same excuse. Given, Miller deserves a slap in the face and a hit in his wallet. However, so do those that didn’t watch what was going into their publications.

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    NORTHIDAHO  over 5 years ago

    So Jill Spitz – and Jorden swallows ?

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    M M  over 5 years ago

    Please keep this comic. You are entirely overreacting. Probably hardly anyone even noticed the bad word all the fake outrage publicity. That was just an excuse for those who don’t like the strip. If someone doesn’t like it they don’t have to read it. Wiley is an excellent cartoonist and many people like it. So get over yourself.

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    pshea  over 5 years ago

    Help! I am lost on all of this, just what is the problem with this strip? And I don’t see it being cancelled by GoComics, just some paper in AZ. Another And, as some have stated we all need to lighten up and remember we’re on a Comics website, if you’re offended by something…Don’t Read It!

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    NatureBatsLast  over 5 years ago

    Tucson, AZ eh? That’s where your water is pumped uphill across desert for 300 miles. Enjoy what’s left of the 19th century, it won’t be long now.

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    NatureBatsLast  over 5 years ago

    Oh, and while you’re at it could you please remove Dick Cheney from the public eye as well? I believe he is guilty of using the same language but then he is such a patriot!

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    abba3  over 5 years ago

    It’s called First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press, as Wiley technically is Press since his comics are technically political.

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    gammaguy  over 5 years ago

    I’m curious. I don’t know where/how to find the “offending” hidden text, nor the “Easter egg” mentioned by some posters here. Not only have I not seen/noticed them, but I don’t even recall any prior discussion of the “Easter egg”, so I haven’t a clue as to why it might have been considered offensive.

    I do wonder why Wiley would insert such things (whatever they were/are). Were they directed at particular individuals or organizations? Were they in response to communications from such individuals or organizations which we — or at least I — have not seen?

    In any case, if the Non Sequitur strip is deleted from GoComics but can still be found elsewhere (e.g., ArcaMax), I will continue to follow it and not skip even a day.

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    Godfreydaniel  over 5 years ago

    I’m really really REALLY hoping that GoComics has NOT dropped the legendary, award-winning “Non Sequitur”, as rumors have it. (Being from Kansas City, where the parent company of the parent company of the parent company…..you know how it goes! OF the parent company of GoComics hangs out, I’d hate to think that, in the words of conservative pundit George Will, talking about Trump, and my words, talking about the Kansas City Star, that GoComics is NOT “a sad embarrasing wreck” of a comics website.

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    alexius23  over 5 years ago

    So this is the end of Non Sequitur?

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    Captainmike  over 5 years ago

    I support this strip and I do not want to see it taken away, I am real pissed that I am being told what I can or can’t read.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    The strip is here, IT WON’T BE TAKEN AWAY. Especially not by an editor of a Tuscon news paper. Get a grip people!

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    gammaguy  over 5 years ago

    @russef: “February 10. See if you can be outraged from the scribblings (one whited out).”

    Thanks for the reference, but…

    What I see seems to be literally “scribbling”. I can’t make out any letters, much less words or more extended “sense”. And if anything is “whited out”, I can’t tell. And is the egg at the top of that cartoon the “Easter egg” that other’s have mentioned, or was that something on a different day? What I see is strange, but in no way “offensive”.

    So has the copy of that page here on GoComics been tampered with?

    Meanwhile, ArcaMax is indeed (currently/still) carrying Non Sequitur, but February 10 is completely missing. A different variation on censorship?

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    RonStacy1  over 5 years ago

    Cowards! Free press? Oh yeah; it’s America, land of the Trump Fascists. I’m gone.

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    RonStacy1  over 5 years ago

    I forgot to mention that Wiley Miller is one of your best and smartest cartoonists. ’Bye

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    Iwa Iniki  over 5 years ago

    With all the terrible things on the internet, this was mild by comparison. Please bring it back. It is one of the best comics ever. Everyone makes mistakes. Forgiveness is the answer.

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    Lenavid  over 5 years ago

    Danae would be PERFECT for Pelosi. Same tactics and standards.

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    erniejpdx  over 5 years ago

    This is a parody, right?

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    jhcarruth  over 5 years ago

    Will miss Non Sequitur.

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    erniejpdx  over 5 years ago

    I think Jill is completely out of her element and should go back to her Magical Woods of Niceness for an extended stay until she recovers her sense of humor and perspective. Perhaps in the Magical Woods of Niceness Rehab Center.

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    sufamelico  over 5 years ago

    @JSPITZ@TUCSONAZ.com, Okay Jeff, here are my two cents, While (Not Wiley) I also don’t condone sneaky forms of circumventing rules and standards, I only have one thing to say; Is there a way to have all the staff in charge of proofing, editing, and reviewing the comics we are allowed to see here in GoComicsland ? and send them to the White House in D. C. ? I think that that place needs a more thorough cleaning and disinfecting that whta we have in here, But I digress, I might already know the answer, But please have me an answer, Thanks in advance

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    bakana  over 5 years ago

    If only we could dispose of the Russian Troll Hackers so easily.

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    Dr_Fogg  over 5 years ago

    ROFL!!!!

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I suggested the other day that they should use concrete instead of sewage. As the comic shows today, sewage, followed by a big plug of concrete, is even better.

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    David Henderson  over 5 years ago

    This may get pulled but here it is any wayhttps://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/02/11/non-sequitur-hidden-message-donald-trump/

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    beany54  over 5 years ago

    Please don’t take this comic off.

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    God particle  over 5 years ago

    No fine them but don’t do that. I hope Wiley sues you.

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    garcalej  over 5 years ago

    Your country needs you, Danae. Answer the call.

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    Ryan123 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I think all the kerrfluffle is a sad statement on both how do accept or don’t an apology…seems pretty puritanical at best. Also the word was duck, not the other one, so I’m worried it’s always possible to ‘see’ this…the great fear that somewhere someone is having fun…humm.

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    Marianne Moscynski Premium Member over 5 years ago

    There is no reason to drop Non Sequitur, most people who read the comic didn’t even see the offending comment until someone decided to raise a fuss. Even when I went back and pulled the comics section out of the recycle bin and looked closely, I wouldn’t have known what it said but for all the commentary about it. Please let Wiley keep his freedom of speech.

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    keenanthelibrarian  over 5 years ago

    Well, maybe Wiley should have known better, but I don’t think it deserves being pulled off all those papers permanently. A rap over the knuckles would have sufficed.

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    marketfog  over 5 years ago

    I saw the caption in question. It does not appear to have been done by the same person who normally does the lettering. It may be sabotaged.

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    BrothainBeijing  over 5 years ago

    Dear Ms. Spitz,Censoring satire is gutless. You are an abject coward. Mr. Miller, nor any other satirist/cartoonist, owes you, or anyone else an apology for their work. I thought Mr. Miller’s artwork in said strip was sheer genius. Ironically, 99.9999% of the Trump-supporting morons had to be told were to look for the perceived slight. If Mr. Miller had written, “Ire ipsum et pecore coierit”, would you have even noticed? Would you have censored his comic? There was nothing brave in your decision.

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    alikgator  over 5 years ago

    After Donald rump America will never be the same country of freedom. Sorry guys go to look for it in …uhh a small town in Switzerland???

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    Peacenik  over 5 years ago

    I want Wiley Miller back!!!!!!!!!!! Non Sequitur is one of the very best cartoons out there and he does not deserve to be dumped!!! BRING HIM BACK!!!!!!!! It was NOT the right thing to do! You sat in judgement for all of us and we outnumber you greatly!

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    RabbitHole  over 5 years ago

    I see the rabid left is out in force with their comments. I’m sure they would have made a hard pivot (further to the left) if the Mallard Fillmore strip had contained the same sentence aimed at Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. I did notice a most (or all) of the newspapers pulling it also favor the Democrat party (the same as Wiley), so their decision was one of ethics rather than favoring Trump.First of all, most newspapers still have a certain amount of ethical standards and allowing profanity is not one they condone. One editor wrote that newspapers don’t have sufficient staff to catch this type of stuff anymore and Wiley knew it. Second of all, many young children read the comic strips (I have even before I started school thanks to an older cousin and her friends). Some, maybe not all, will catch that and be asking their parents about it. Television has become even worse. I remember George Carlin used to talk about the seven words you couldn’t say on TV and today you hear them regularly, even on prime-time TV and its all considered PC by the left. It shows how far the country has degenerated. Profanity is not civil discourse nor adds to the quality of a TV show. I am no prude when it comes to profanity or many other matters – I served in the US Navy where English was a “second language” and profanity was the “first language”. Wiley is a gifted cartoonist when his strips are non-political. As far as I am concerned, all strips that get political should be put on the editorial page (and require the cartoonist to put a little block stating “Political” so the editors and type setters don’t miss it). Plus there is no need for profanity in the comic strips regardless – nor on TV/Radio for that matter and even the movies – it doesn’t add to the story line.

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    gsteele531  over 5 years ago

    Pour concrete over Nancy Pelosi and erect a monument to colossal malfeasance over it.

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