![]() Prior to the announcement of the removal of the strips, Pastis remarked in a Teet, “They were all created at least a month in advance of yesterdays events and are not a commentary on them.” Pastis later added that some of the strips were written as far back as 2017. One of the key factors in this difference is that the strips were written well in advance on the events of January 6. It may seem like censorship at first but, it is, in fact, an example of editorial discretion. The strips were pulled because they dealt with a coup at the capital and would have appeared shortly after the attempted coup at our own Capitol Building. A set of five replacement strips, also by Pastis, were run in their place. This past week the comic strip syndicate Andrews McNeel pulled five strips of creator Stephan Pastis’s “Pearls Before Swine” comic, effectively removing it from 850 newspapers nationwide.
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