Seriously, Tribune Media Services? This Broom-Hilda strip was drawn weeks ago, and with a five day lead time you didn’t think to pull it from today’s newspapers? If I were Russell Myers, I’d be furious.
Hat tip: Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter.
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Whereas the syndicate can alert their papers to the situation, it’s up to the subscribing papers to pull the strip. This would come at the very latest when the section, features or comics editor (as appropriate) reviews the page before it goes to press.
…which many papers declined to do. Including the Chicago Tribune. Which is published in the very same building as TMS.
Ergo, the Trib doesn’t read its comics before okaying them for print.
Ergo, they published a shit-magnet.