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Archive for November 5th, 2009

Jeremy’s parents are naked

22 comments November 5th, 2009

I just pulled my favorite comic strip, Zits. And, it’ll stay pulled until creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman put some clothes back on Jeremy’s parents.

If you don’t follow Zits, none of this will matter to you. If you do read Zits, here’s why it’s gone for now. Seems Scott and Borgman ran out of sophisticated ideas and decided to riff on the tired, goofy, pudgy “Love Is…” cherubs with a series of strips titled “Love Isn’t…”

Not original, but, hey, doing a daily strip is hard work and not every idea is gonna be great. This one careened off the table to flat out dumb when they decided to take off the clothes of Jeremy’s parents.

Since I do not have the time nor the inclination to deal with the ruckus those naked parents created among some of our comics’ readers, I pulled the strip and sent a note to King Features, the syndicated distributor. Said note said: Strip pulled until the clothes come back.

Unfortunately, the Friday strip was printed in GO before I saw the Thursday one. Don’t look if comic strip nudity offends you. And on Saturday, it’s gone and the comics pages are safe again from middle-aged, saggy cherubs.

If you can’t do without Jeremy and his naked parents, we’ll post Saturdays’ strip online at go.rrstar.com.