Comic Strip Review: Prickly City
Yo zingerfans! Marilla and I are back from our little jaunt to the Pacific Northwest. Boy, moss grows on everything up there - trees, brickwork, signposts, cats. Now back at Zingerding HQ, we’re refreshed and ready to bring you some more comic strips!
We’ll start out with the syndicated strip, Prickly City, about a girl named Carmen and her friend Winslow, a coyote pup. Created by conservative editorial cartoonist, Scott Stantis, Prickly City most often has a deep political zing. Carmen is a young Republican kid and Winslow represents a more liberal point of view.
The humor focuses on their conversations, usually as they stroll throughout their American southwestern town and landscape. The cartoonist uses this device first associated with Calvin and Hobbes whereas the characters discuss deeper issues in a whimsical setting. In reading the strip, I actually found the political commentary pretty bland, as if it was trying not to be too offensive or one-sided. An approach like this probably helps sell comics but if you ask this bird, it waters down the power of the medium. The strips I liked best were the ones that commented more on popular culture.
But here is a good political one that zings a funny chord no matter your political affiliation. Click to enlarge it. You can read more Prickly City here.
