Comments on: The Non Sequitur you may not have seen

By: Jon Mean

Jon Mean — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:43:50 +0000

Perhaps one day, when Sharia is the law of the land in the United States, all art will be outlawed. Even when Muhammad is not in the picture, he’s in the picture.

By: StewartIII

StewartIII — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:07:01 +0000

NewsBusters: WaPo Ombudsman Scolds Own Paper for Spiking ‘Where’s Muhammad?’ Cartoon — With No Prophet Image
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/10/10/wapo-ombudsman-scolds-own-paper-spiking-wheres-muhammad-cartoon-no-proph

By: Mary Allen

Mary Allen — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:18:10 +0000

I’ll wager none of the papers covered the story of Molly the comic strip artist from Seattle, who was the one who came up with Everybody Draw Muhammad day being forced to go into hiding, change her name and identity by the federal government (on her own dime).

Kudos to the artist for showing support for free speech and free press, shame on those cowardly news papers.

By: queek d'mudgeon

queek d'mudgeon — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:52:27 +0000

The Detroit Free Press ran the substitute as well.

By: Dan Olson

Dan Olson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:16:18 +0000

In a desperate bid to keep readers the newspapers keep trying to become more and more inoffensive. The problem with that is that news is usually about controversial and offensive items. So they become less informative and relevant.

There go some more readers, we must have offended someone lets tone it down some more. Its a vicious circle.

The only thing I would have changed about Mr. Wiley’s cartoon would have been to include an ostrich with it’s head in the ground to represent newspaper publishers.

By: Susan Abe

Susan Abe — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:07:46 +0000

The great thing about Muhammad is that because nobody is allowed to draw him, nobody really knows what he looks like. He could be any of the entities in the picture.

By: Stacy Curtis

Stacy Curtis — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:56:11 +0000

I can see some editors comparing this “Non Sequitur” cartoon to a “Where’s Waldo?” feature.

Waldo ALWAYS appears in the “Where’s Waldo?” page, so I’m assuming an editor was afraid a depiction of Muhammad appears “hidden” in this “Non Sequitur” cartoon.

Is Muhammad coming out the trash can or maybe he’s hiding in the ice cream trolley?
Is Muhammad in the outhouse?
Maybe he’s the dog leading the man on the leash?
Perhaps if you turn the cartoon upside down, you’ll see Muhammad?
Or maybe it’s like one of those “Magic Eye” things?

It appears Wiley has gone out of his way to depict everyone in this park scene as being white.
It’s also a peaceful scene. No one getting mugged. No one doing any harm to anyone else.

If editors hadn’t pulled this cartoon from their newspapers, the point of this cartoon would not have been a success.

By: Alex Hallatt

Alex Hallatt — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:40:49 +0000

I guess the editors ran scared because the joke of the cartoon was about how you can’t picture Muhammad and the implication that though you can’t see him, he is in there somewhere (I’m guessing in the ice cream trolley).

It isn’t just mentioning Muhammed – the joke IS Muhammed.

This religious stuff drives me crazy.

By: Jimmy Delach

Jimmy Delach — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:57:22 +0000

The Tampa Tribune did not carry the Muhammad strip (the St. Petersburg Times did).

By: Michael Fry

Michael Fry — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:45:34 +0000

Interesting. Over the Hedge used the name Muhammad back in May on “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” and there was nary a peep of protest. Of course, we don’t have Wiley’s list, but we’re in a few big markets. I suspect the reason is that his syndicate offered the papers a choice to opt out while ours didn’t.