Prickly City
by Scott Stantis
United Feature Syndicate distributes Prickly City, a daily and Sunday comic strip by Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis. Launched in 2004 and appearing in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, Prickly City centers around the friendship between a coyote pup named Winslow and a young girl named Carmen. In the ongoing storyline, the strip offers a conservative perspective on political and social events that is especially topical at a time when Democrats control Washington.
Carmen is a feisty libertarian-conservative, while Winslow is a coyote with political aspirations. He can also be patronizing, condescending, and impulsive, and his liberal responses produce much of the strip’s humor. Carmen is continuously frustrated by Winslow’s assumption that she should be a liberal feminist. Through it all, though, Carmen and Winslow are friends to the end.
Stantis became the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune in August 2009. He previously held the same position at the Birmingham News since 1996. Stantis also produces a weekly editorial cartoon for USA Today. He is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was the creator of the popular comic strip The Buckets, which is currently drawn by Greg Cravens.
A California native, Stantis has been married for more than two decades to his college sweetheart, Janien. They have two college-age sons and live in Hoover, Ala., where Stantis likes to read, write, paint and curse his lawn.
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