If A Comic Insults And No One Sees It...

The Stranger may be big and bad enough to be among the handful of U.S. papers in the country to print the Danish cartoons that got people all ruffled and rioty a while back, but their little sister paper down in Portland apparently ixnayed a comic in their pages recently for being too... something. The word we have is that it wasn't run because it was "too objectionable." Seattlest thought maybe it was dropped for not being funny, but when has that ever stopped a paper from running a strip. The comic in question depicts a girl wiping her ass with the loose end of a turban, and apparently that's well-explored territory for the strip Blecky Yukerella.

From the Fantagraphics blog:

Johnny Ryan's website features a funny "Blecky Yuckerella" strip that the Portland Mercury declined to run this week for being a bit too objectionable. This strikes me as weird, given that the Mercury is owned by the Seattle Stranger, which was one of the few American newspapers to run the Danish editorial cartoons that have caused so much insanity. Go figure.