Prickly City

Prickly City is a daily comic strip originally drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, and distributed through United Features Syndicate. The cartoon follows the adventures of Carmen, a young girl of color, and a coyote pup named Winslow. The strip is frequently politically oriented with a conservative point-of-view.

Scott Stantis has retired from the strip, and as of June 22, 2026, the strip is signed by Marshall Ramsey, although Ramsey has been covertly writing it for two months. Eric Allie continues to draw the strip, which he has been doing for a few years

Characters

Carmen – a 'feisty' conservative and a Republican. For a brief time, she had a crush on Tucker Carlson. Carmen made her first appearance at least 4 months before the strip began, in one of Stantis's editorial cartoons.

Winslow – named for the town of Winslow, Arizona, is a coyote with political aspirations who acts patronizing, condescending and impulsive. His liberal responses are typically the source of the strip's jokes. Carmen is continuously frustrated by Winslow's assumption that she should be a liberal feminist. Early in the strip's run, Winslow had a crush on Condoleezza Rice, even writing a poem about her (which Carmen initially misunderstood as being a poem about herself).

Controversies

The Chicago Tribune refused to run the February 7, 2005 strip, which inaccurately quoted Ted Kennedy. According to Stantis, the syndicate erroneously added quote marks to the dialogue without his permission. Later that year The Seattle Times refused to run a series of strips about the Terri Schiavo case. Later, a series of strips beginning August 25, 2008, accused the attendees of the 2008 Democratic National Convention of being communists.

Book collection

See also

• Mallard Fillmore – another conservative-themed comic strip

References

External links

• Official website