Comments on: Ill-timed Broom Hilda strip on movies, gunshots (UPDATED)

By: Darryl Heine

Darryl Heine — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:16:47 +0000

The Chicago Tribune still runs Broom-Hilda, and it carried today’s strip, the loud mouth girl reminds me of short lived 1954-1955 Peanuts character Charlotte Braun.

By: RYAN BROWN

RYAN BROWN — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:26:22 +0000

Wow, the coincidence is startling, unfortunately.

By: John Read

John Read — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:49:24 +0000

You can bet that editors keep a much closer eye on strips that often contain a political “message” (like “Doonesbury,” “Prickly City” and “Mallard Fillmore”) than they do the typical gag-a-day strips.

By: Mike Cope

Mike Cope — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:24:57 +0000

Those in the syndication business can hopefully clarify this, but how many days are needed to “pull” a potentially insensitive cartoon?

Being a Wednesday cartoon, that means they would have had only Monday and part of Tuesday to remedy the situation — if they had immediately made the connection.

But since comic strips are drawn and submitted so far in advance, this one could have been honestly forgotten.

It’s sincerely too bad.

Then again, what the hell are the newspaper editors doing running strips without screening them themselves?

I’d be curious if any newspaper editor/publisher cares enough about the comics to read the material they print in their own papers.