Confederate Porn...Banned!

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This strip was to be running this week in the Seattle Stranger, but was spiked due to it's "controversial" content. This is the Seattle Stranger we are talking about, one of the only American newspapers to print the riot inducing Muhammad cartoons. They even printed my comic on UN Ambassador John Bolton where I have him take an Arab woman as a "prize fuck", beat her up, and smoke hash. What had happened?

"I'm afraid you've reached our limit! Congrats," The Art Director wrote me.

Here is the strips predecessor, Colonial Porn, which previously ran in the Stranger:

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I wanted this comic printed dammit, so I phoned the only candidate left for the job, the Buffalo Beast. The Beast also printed the Muhammad cartoons, including my death threat inspiring Tom Toles parody. Surely they would run 'Confederate Porn,' right?

"I don't think any of the other Editors will bat an eyelid," said Editor Al Uthman. "We'll print it."

I wasn't trying to be particularly controversial with this one. I prefer when papers don't spike my comics and I get paid. What do you think? Did I cross the line?