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Mike du Jour by Mike Lester is doing “The Gender Mystery Date” series this week and GoComics apparently has had second thoughts on running the arc. The website began the week running the strips and then belatedly pulled them and replaced them with reruns from 2020.
--The Daily Cartoonist news
(Arcamax is running the series in its entirety.)
What does it take for GoComics to nix a comic or comics? I had one of my "Frog Applause" strips removed several years after it was already posted. I was notified before it happened. I wasn't notified by the person or persons who decided to take it down, but instead by an insider who let me know that it would be happening later that day. I didn't fight the decision. I wasn't terribly happy with the comic anyway. It was dumb and not worth defending. GoComics probably did me a favor, in fact. If I could figure out where or when it was originally posted, I'd look to see if it magically reappeared. I'm not sure if that's possible, but with all the updates and temporary outages on GoComics, I wondered if it might have been accidentally restored. Back to my axed comic... this particular "Frog Applause" installment was blasé crude and not even lame enough to be honorably classified as lame. I take my lameness seriously. I am proud of my lameness, and I'm probably my harshest critic in that regard.
What do you think about the removal of certain comics? Do you consider it censorship? What exactly does it take for a comic to be removed?
Language?
Here's a recent "1 and Done" comic by Eric Scott (it was not removed; language seems okay in most comics as long as it's not the language of hate):
