Thank you for your hard work. I'm one of those who hates seeing politics in comics, and I've dropped many popular comics from my feed because of strips that are trying to make political points without any humor content.
The "political" strips you reference here are not what I would consider in that category. They don't reference any country, politician or policy.
I also want to note that (as you certainly already know) Charles Schulz wrote many strips honoring our veterans and nobody (as far as I know) ever accused him of turning Peanuts into a political activism platform. (And if someone's personal political opinions won't allow him to honor veterans, that's just sad, whether or not he agrees with the reasons for the wars in which they fought.)
I don't object to comics containing politics; I decided that other people did it much better than I could, and my characters were innocents who had to have difficult concepts explained to them.
Thank you for your hard work. I'm one of those who hates seeing politics in comics, and I've dropped many popular comics from my feed because of strips that are trying to make political points without any humor content.
The "political" strips you reference here are not what I would consider in that category. They don't reference any country, politician or policy.
I also want to note that (as you certainly already know) Charles Schulz wrote many strips honoring our veterans and nobody (as far as I know) ever accused him of turning Peanuts into a political activism platform. (And if someone's personal political opinions won't allow him to honor veterans, that's just sad, whether or not he agrees with the reasons for the wars in which they fought.)
I don't object to comics containing politics; I decided that other people did it much better than I could, and my characters were innocents who had to have difficult concepts explained to them.
I never knew about the two poppies. Thank you for highlighting this in your script. Take care.
Celinda Evitt
The Co-Operative Women's Guild in England created the white poppy in 1933 to honor the civilian casualties. The Vancouver Peace poppy is much newer.
https://www.co-operativeheritage.coop/blog/the-co-op-movement-and-the-white-poppy