Effective July 12, United Feature Syndicate began
distributing
Scott Stantis’ Prickly City, which had been syndicated
by Universal Press. A mildly but nonetheless acute political commentary strip
launched in 2004,
Prickly City
now appears in more than 100 newspapers. The strip focuses on the
friendship of a left-leaning coyote pup named Winslow and a young
right-thinking girl named Carmen. Stantis, who moonlights as the editorial
cartoonist for the
Birmingham News,
is an unabashed conservative, but while
Prickly
City offers a conservative perspective on political and social events,
Stantis shows he can needle Republicans, too, lately mocking South Carolina’s
randy governor, Mark Sanford: when Carmen returns from a covert trip to
Argentina smelling of “wet dog,” Winslow believes she was “seeing another
coyote.” Despite their frequently opposing views, Carmen and Winslow are
friends to the end — Stantis’ comment on the symbionic nature of politics by
political party.
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