‘Non Sequitur’ replaces ‘ Boondocks’ as a result of cartoonist’s hiatus
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006
Non Sequitur, a comic by cartoonist Wiley Miller that examines the absurdities of life, begins today in the Northwest Arkansas Times.
The comic will replace Boondocks, which cartoonist Aaron McGruder has discontinued while he takes a sixmonth hiatus from drawing the strip. The final strip from McGruder appeared in Saturday’s edition.
Non Sequitur is distributed to more than 700 newspapers by Universal Press Syndicate, the same company that distributes Boondocks.
In a letter distributed by Universal Press, McGruder said "every well needs refreshing" and he needed time away from the demands of deadlines. The cartoonist is not giving interviews about the decision, the syndicate said.
Miller was the first cartoonist to earn the National Cartoonists Society divisional award after only one year of sindication of Non Sequitur.
In 1988, Miller was named best editorial cartoonist by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and he won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning in 1991. He began his publishing career at the Greensboro, N. C., News & Record in 1976 and did editorial cartoons for the San Francisco Examiner beginning in 1985.
The Northwest Arkansas Times’ comics page runs Monday through Saturday.
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