| Non Sequitur | |
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| Author(s) | Wiley Miller |
| Website | www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur |
| Launch date | February 16, 1992 |
| Syndicate(s) | Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication |
| Publisher(s) | Random House Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Genre(s) | Comedy, political |
Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller (credited mononymously as Wiley) starting February 16, 1992[1] and syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication to over 700 newspapers. It is also published on gocomics.com and distributed via email.
Translated from Latin as "it does not follow", Non Sequitur is often political and satirical, though other times, purely comedic.
The strip has undergone many changes through its history. Originally, the comic was a single panel gag cartoon, similar to Gary Larson's The Far Side. It grew more political (from a moderately liberal perspective) in tone during the 1990s, to the point where it often became a borderline editorial cartoon. Today, the comic has become more traditional, sometimes using a multi-panel format and recurring characters. The horizontal daily strip is sometimes used as a single panel. The Sunday strip is vertical.
Non Sequitur has been honored with four National Cartoonists Society Awards, including the Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1995, 1996 and 1998, and the Newspaper Panels Award for 2002. It is the only comic strip to win in its first year of syndication and the only title to ever win both the best comic strip and best comic panel categories.
- ^ Holtz, Allan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 289. ISBN 9780472117567.