Will creastors of ‘Shoe’ run afoul of Herald like ‘Dilbert’s’?

I commend The Herald’s editors for choosing “Shoe” as the replacement comic strip for Scott Adams’ “Dilbert.” The first one was hilarious, suggesting that the men’s room in a bar catering to talking birds has a bad odor.

More importantly, I won’t have to worry that, like “Dilbert,” “Shoe” will get the axe because of something insensitive its creator says on social media. That’s because Jeff MacNelly has been dead for 22 years. He’s unlikely to tweet anything to upset me or even the most sensitive of Herald editors.

MacNelly joins a distinguished list of comic strips created by dead men that us readers of The Herald get to enjoy, among them B.C. by Johnny Hart, Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketchum and Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

As for your cartoonists who are still alive, I hope what The Herald did to Scott Adams will serve as a lesson to them all.

Jim Larsen

Langley

Editor’s note: Following the death of Jeff McNally in 2000, “Shoe” was resumed by his widow, Susan MacNelly, Chris Cassat and artist Gary Brookins. Each strip is a new original comic and not a reprint of old comics. “Shoe” was the leading choice among readers voting among several potential replacements.