Lynn Johnston has posted several strips that never hit the newspaper – or some that did after getting reworked. Several times she notes that some strips should have run, but sometimes she was just too hard of a self-editor and othertimes, the gag was okay by today’s standards, but not so much for the early 80’s.
Here’s an example with her comment:
Guess this was too negative for the fledgling strip.
This is a great piece of comic history!