The Meaning of Lila by John Forgetta and L.A. Rose for September 12, 2011

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    Phatts  over 13 years ago

    ā€¦ touchĆ© ā€¦

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    rayannina  over 13 years ago

    Well played, Lila. Well played.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Iā€™m visualizing that you didnā€™t really have to draw this strip!

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    IQTech61  over 13 years ago

    Visualizing a future for someone without their consent is negative magic. It never does anyone any good.

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    ironflange  over 13 years ago

    Mom, just skip a generation and start working on Annie.

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    JWF Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Donā€™t give up on Lila, yet, ironflange. LOL. Thank you, everyone, for your kind comments yesterday and for loyally reading the strip. You keep me going, despite a difficult market. Hope everyone has a great week!

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    crystalwizard  over 13 years ago

    Mom, get a life of your own. Lila, just let go of the speaker button and go back to whatever it was you were doing.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Comic reader: So, here in the righteous red state we live in, we have to suffer through ā€˜Mallard Fillmoreā€™ in our newspaper 7 days a week and ā€œThe Meaning of Lilaā€ , a genuinely, consistently funny strip is not even syndicated?.Comics syndicate representative: You donā€™t think ā€˜Mallardā€™ is hilarous?.(comic reader slowly shakes his head and releases an audible sigh)

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    fr8-cat  over 13 years ago

    Lila was removed from the US military overseas newspaper, Stars & Stripes, about a year or so ago, too. I found the strip too good to give up on, so I read it online now. Thanks for a great strip, John.

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    JWF Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Hi fr8-catā€¦thanks for your comments. ā€œLilaā€ is syndicated by Creators but is only in a handful of newspapers. It was in several more and major newspapers until Boyd came out and then it was removed for ā€œspaceā€ reasons. Itā€™s definitely been a struggle to get a more alternative comic strip in the newspapers. Creators has been very diligent, but the fight may just be too hard.

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    hippogriff  over 13 years ago

    Lynn Johnston lost a few papers when one of her characters left the closet. It also explains why Mallard stays. The newspapers are dependent on advertising from multinational corporations. These corporations depend on a divide and rule principle and bigotry is the easiest way to divide.

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