# Comics taking note of March For Our Lives **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112 "2018-03-24T12:38:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/1 "2018-03-24T12:38:50Z")
I see that both _Baby Blues_ and _Zits_ have special strips today to indicate their participation with today’s March For Our Lives event. Whoa, the instant raging gun control brawls taking place in the comments for these two strips! At least in _seattle pi_, the website I use to read comics. I didn’t read past the first “Lord I pray you to forgive the artist for their sinful view” post. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/2 "2018-03-24T18:03:10Z")
I’m surprised that any comic strips were able to coordinate with that at all. I always thought syndicated newspaper strips were completed 4-6 weeks before they actually appear in the funny pages. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/3 "2018-03-24T18:20:45Z")
They usually are, but that doesn’t prevent a cartoonist from banging out a special strip to sub for another one if they so desire. Lots of salutes to Stephan Hawking were done that way. Ever since cartoonists started delivering their work via email rather than FedEx, this sort of thing has been much easier. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/4 "2018-03-24T19:47:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Lots of salutes to Stephan Hawking were done that way. And boy were those embarrassing! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/5 "2018-03-24T22:06:39Z")
_Pearls Before Swine_ also had one, yesterday (maybe because Pastis’ take on it required a school day). ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/6 "2018-03-25T05:55:11Z")
One of the creators of Baby Blues is the guy who does Zits, so it’s likely just him and not some industry-wide coordinated effort. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comics-taking-note-of-march-for-our-lives/811112/7 "2018-03-25T17:34:45Z")
Plus given that Zits is about High School teens, it makes a lot of sense to acknowledge the March.