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This Friday’s Non Sequitur to be swapped out in International Herald Tribune (UPDATE)

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) wants to substitute this Friday’s Non Sequtuir according to E&P. The cartoon in question pokes fun of Ann Coulter who is wearing a burqa after getting everything she’s ever wished for (the non-existence of liberals being one of those things).

Universal Press has given them a strip from a year ago to run in it’s stead.
UPDATE:  Dave Astor has posted an update to the story over on E&P’s site. Included in the update is a response from Wiley Miller

In response to Burtt’s statement, “Non Sequitur” creator Wiley Miller said in a Wedneday e-mail: “It’s the right, even obligation, of every editor to run or censor anything they deem appropriate for their newspaper, no matter how vague the rationale might be.”

But he added: “Under the reasoning they’ve stated, every cartoon could be deemed inappropriate… . So I think they’ve been less than forthcoming on the real reason they’re afraid to run this rather mild satire. But that’s their right.”

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Community Comments

#1 Rob
August/9/2006 @ 1:21 pm

Is Non Sequitur an editorial cartoon or cartoon strip?
It seems a bit schizophrenic.

Leave the politics in the editorial page, not the comic page.

#2 Norm Feuti
August/9/2006 @ 2:29 pm

It’s hard to judge what they might have thought was so risky without seeing the actual cartoon, but judging strictly by the text, it seemed pretty tame.

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