Joplin Globe runs comic strip with hidden message "We fondly say f--- yourself Mr. Trump"

The Joplin Globe dropped the Non Sequitur comic strip from its Sunday lineup after Editor Carol Stark (and editors across the United States) discovered cartoonist Wiley Miller had a hidden message saying "We fondly say f--- yourself, Mr. Trump," hidden in the bottom right hand corner of the second panel.

(Note: The actual four-letter word was used in the comic strip.)

A number of other newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News and Columbus Dispatch, also dropped the comic strip.

Miller said it was something he had done a few weeks ago when he was angry about something the president had done and forgot to take it out, but that contradicted a tweet he sent saying some of his "sharp-eyed readers had spotted an Easter egg" in the strip and asking if readers could find it.







Stark said a reader told her about the hidden message this morning. She explained in a column published a few minutes ago the steps she took.

I never would have seen it unless prompted, but there it was, plain as day under a magnifying glass. 

This foolishness from Wiley has cost him publication in The Joplin Globe as well as a good many more newspapers, based on some of the internet stories I've read.