By Syracuse.com
The Post-Standard is dropping the comic strip Non Sequitur after the artist’s Sunday strip took a hidden profane shot at President Trump.
Sunday’s strip, a takeoff on Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, contained a hard-to-read message suggesting the president “Go f-— yourself.”
The artist, Wiley Miller, teased his readers about the message in a tweet Sunday: “Some of my sharp-eyed readers have spotted a little Easter egg from Leonardo Bear-Vinci. Can you find it?”
A reader called the wisecrack to The Post-Standard’s attention.
Said Trish LaMonte, vice president of content for The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com: “Mr. Miller made a juvenile and vulgar decision that does not meet our standards for the syndicated content we pay to have in the newspaper and is offensive to our readers, regardless of their political affiliations.”
In a statement quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Miller said it was a mistake.
Miller said he drew the strip about eight weeks ago and didn’t plan to keep the vulgar sentiment, the Dallas newspaper said.
“I now remember that I was particularly aggravated that day about something the president had done or said, and so I lashed out in a rather sophomoric manner as instant therapy,” he said, according to the Morning News. “It was NOT intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to. Had I intended to make a statement to be understood by the readers, I would have done so in a more subtle, sophisticated manner.”
He didn’t explain why, if he didn’t intend to publish the remark, he called it out to his Twitter following Sunday.
The crude reference eventually was scrubbed in the version of the strip published at GoComics.
He’s deleted his Twitter acct.
He was so vain.
Pointing it out to his fans on Twitter.
That was so blatant.
Who’d he think he was? A Clinton???
““It was NOT intended for public consumption, and I meant to white it out before submitting it, but forgot to.”
uh, yeah. just like AOC claimed her GND outline was a “draft” not meant for public consumption and was “accidentally” published on her Congressional website (after first denying it was published there at all)/