As the hardreading staff has diligently chronicled, the Boston Globe joined dozens of other newspapers in dumping Non Sequitur for inviting Donald Trump to do something anatomically impossible in its comic strip last week.
In yesterday’s Boston Herald comics page, Pearls Before Swine offered this commentary.
Beyond that, Two Daily Town has received several protests to the Globe’s defenestration of Non Sequitur.
Draw, as it were, your own conclusions.
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As the hardreading staff has previously noted, the Boston Globe had no immediate reaction to last Sunday’s Non Sequitur comic, which contained what was widely described as a “profane and vulgar” message to Donald Trump inviting him to do something, well, anatomically impossible.
All week newspapers have been busy dropping the strip (The Daily Cartoonist stopped counting at 45), and today the Globe followed suit with this Page 2 editor’s note.
So, instead of this on today’s comics pages . . .
Globe readers got this.
If Non Sequitur had to go (which, in truth, it didn’t), Zippy the Pinhead is an excellent replacement.
(To be sure graf goes here)
To be sure, there were a couple of protests on Twitter.
But that’s pretty much all the blowback we saw.
According to the editor’s note, the Sunday Globe will continue to stiff Zippy, opting instead for Half Full, which is, to be fair, half funny.
Hey – six out of seven Zippys ain’t bad.
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As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the strip has hit the fan over Wiley Miller’s Non Sequitur comic on Sunday, which featured this smash note for Donald Trump (it’s now been erased from the web version).
That caused a number of papers to drop the strip, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Butler (PA) Eagle, Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel of South Florida, the Post Bulletin of Rochester, MN, the Post-Standard of Syracuse, the Columbus Dispatch, and . . . well, tally them yourself here.
But not, as yet, the Boston Globe.
So we tweeted this a couple of hours ago to Globe editor Brian McGrory.
So far, no reply.
All this mishegas coincides with yesterday’s launch of the expanded Globe comics pages, which now look like this.
As it happens, the four restored comics – Mother Goose & Grimm, Bizarro, Rose Is Rose, and Adam @ Home – share the kiddie table on the right with Non Sequitur.
Memo to Globe readers who voted for Rose Is Rose and Adam@Home: Here’s what you brought back to the party.
When you could’ve had this . . .
. . . and this.
As Indiana Jones might say, you chose poorly.
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As the hardreading staff painstakingly chronicled, the Boston Globe dropped Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead comic strip last August. At the time of the Zipectomy, we had this to say about the management at the stately local broadsheet:
Boston Globe editor Brian (Hey – let’s reimagine the paper! We can use John Henry’s garage!) McGrory has now become a first-ballot entry into the Comic Strip Hall of Shame.
Well, we officially take that back, because Zippy himself is back. McGrory’s media culpa appears on page 2 of today’s Globe.
From our Before ‘n’ After desk, here are Saturday’s comics pages.
And here are today’s.
And the triumphant return of Zippy.
We’d like to think we had something to do with the Globe’s coming to its senses, but we doubt that’s the case. Still, live and let learn, that’s our slogan.
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Zippy Held Hostage: Day Two
Let’s start with this: For the past several years, the Boston Globe has featured only a handful of comic strips worth reading: Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley, Rhymes with Orange by Hilary Price (both of whom are Bay State artists), Bizarro by Dan Piraro, and, on a good day, Mother Goose & Grimm, Monty, and Doonesbury (Memory Lane edition).
Also – the best of the lot – Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead. Until yesterday, that is, when Globe readers learned that the paper had performed a Zipectomy and dumped the strip.
The hardreading staff, of course, protested vehemently, railing against the shortsighted decision by Globe bigwigs. We also sent an email to Bill Griffith, asking what happened. His reply:
It’s an outrage, and we call on all Pinhead-heads to contact Globe editor Brian McGrory and register their disapproval.
Thank you for your support.
P.S. Here’s the latest Zippy, but, really, we can’t do this every day.
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Bad enough the Boston Globe dropped the Sunday edition of Zippy the Pinhead almost three years ago. Now apparently the daily version of the strip is gone as well.
From today’s not-so-funny pages:
Just for scale, here’s Saturday’s:
At least last time the Globeniks performed a Zipectomy, they had the decency to publish an editor’s note.
(Just for the record, WuMo no longer appears in the Globe’s increasingly lame Sunday Comics section.)
This time around, though, there’s not a word about the Globe’s dropping the strip altogether. That’s just wrong.
The hardreading staff is sending a note to Bill Griffith to ask what happened. Meanwhile, Boston Globe editor Brian (Hey – let’s reimagine the paper! We can use John Henry’s garage!) McGrory has now become a first-ballot entry into the Comic Strip Hall of Shame.
P.S. Here’s today’s Zippy that McGrory so shamefully withheld.
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The hardreading staff is a longtime devotee of Boston Globe comic strips such as Dan Piraro’s Bizarro, Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead, and Darby Conley’s Get Fuzzy, and we’ve long had a morning routine of reading the Globe Sports section, then turning to the back of the Metro section to read the funny pages.
Until yesterday.
When suddenly – magically! – the comics pages appeared at the back of the Sports section. (D6 and D7 for those of you keeping score at home.)
No advance warning.
No Editor’s note.
No nothing.
And then today – poof! – the comics pages are back at the rear of Metro.
Hey, Globeniks: Some respek, eh?
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The hardlyreading staff held hostage: Day 8.
Random notes from around the Globe:
• Today’s edition of the Boston Globe plunks its delivery woes right on Page One.
Crosstown, the Boston Herald has yet to mention the meltdown. We don’t care who prints the fraidy local tabloid – that’s just journalistic malpractice.
• Are we the only ones who think the new Globe ePaper is a classic case of schlimmbesserung? You know, to make worse by trying to improve?
• Kevin Cullen’s front-page piece today is a hoot. Favorite part:
Whatever they pay the delivery people, it’s not enough, and it’s more than a little depressing to think this debacle has been brought about by a desire to pay them even less.
Interesting Twitter exchange yesterday in the wake of Cullen’s piece going online. First:
Then:
Huh.
• Rapid strides! Today’s “delivery delay” list is down to 112 zip codes (from 117 yesterday).
• Free the Zippy the Pinhead One!
More, most likely, to come.
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It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 