Police stop a Black motorist, unsurprising events follow

A Candorville comic strip, and reader reaction

Jan 29, 2023

∙ Paid

Some people don’t realize that newspaper comic strips are created weeks in advance. Sunday comic strips, in particular, are created months in advance. A reader took issue with me for lampooning police brutality given the latest incident (presumably Friday’s release of the video of five vicious officers beating Tyre Nichols to death).

I created this comi…

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