In a tweet, I hinted that my oversight was intentional, an ‘Easter egg,’ a new misjudgment of shameful proportions - the dumbest and most dumbfounding thing I’ve done in my sixty-seven years on this planet. Support for the epithet began rolling in a way out suddenly appeared. My first thought was horror, and not apologizing immediately became my second mistake.
“The next morning, in the hubbub of children’s visit, the correction was forgotten - a mistake, I’m devastated to say, I compounded six weeks later when the strip ran, and the oversight was pointed out by readers. I finished inking another strip, shut off the lights, and went to bed. I scribbled the epithet without thinking, intending, however, to white it out the next morning. I was watching a late-night cable news station as I sat inking a featured story got my ire up. I wanted to ink the Da Vinci Sunday so I could upload it the next morning. That day, I took time to visit with our kids and grandson it got late. Because the strips are intricately drawn, I work seven days a week. “I greatly appreciate your allowing me the opportunity to explain and apologize for the ‘Da Vinci strip that ran in Non Sequitur on Sunday, February 10th. Miller wrote a hard-copy letter of apology, which arrived last week. She added that new policies are in place to keep something similar from occurring again. Please know that had anyone in the production pipeline discovered the vulgarity, it would have been removed immediately,” Roush wrote. “Given the cryptic, concealed nature of the Non Sequitur incident, unfortunately we missed this one. She explained that the syndicate has nine full-time editors who handle and check over more than 200 features every week.
We fully understand the outrage the language caused among your readers, as well as your frustration with us. It has dealt a serious blow to the long history of excellent service and trust Andrews McMeel Universal has built with our newspaper partners over 50 years in the syndication business. “We deeply regret not catching Wiley Miller’s hidden inappropriate message. Sue Roush, managing editor of Andrews McMeel Universal, sent an apology to newspaper editors. Others said it wasn’t a big deal.Ī few others used this logic: The president is deceptive and uses profanity, so it’s appropriate for Miller to do the same in insulting the president. Readers also said they couldn’t make out the vulgarity, anyway. Several suggested a suspension, rather than a permanent drop. This reader captured one of the common sentiments: “It was the most astute, wittiest, and intelligent of UT’s comic strips.” A few readers wrote in supporting the move to drop the strip most wanted it to return.
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