History ComicStrip / PricklyCity

** Quite possibly the result of [[MisaimedFanom misplaced audience sympathy]]. Carmen was deeply UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, whining about her rescuers (horror of horrors) asking her to play cooperative boards games and exhibiting transphobic behavior. By contrast, no matter how cookie the coyotes' leftist beliefs were supposed to be, [[StrawmanHasAPoint they were in face sheltering an American child from an unjust attempt at arrest and deportation]].

%%* ScrewySquirrel: Winslow sometimes

* Aluminum Christmas Trees: Cooperative board games are apparently an absurd result of liberal attitudes taken to extremes in the Winslow household, rather than an extremely popular and commercially successful genre.

** Winslow's MultipleChoicePast includes references to SpiderMan and ''Film/TheGodfather''.

* OnlySaneMan: Carmen often plays this role. A common way for the strip to present its political message is to have a caricature of liberal attitudes or policies portrayed as something silly or crazy, then have her respond in this way. She has also been known to do this however to Republicaans when the author felt they were going too far.

* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: As with most political comics. For example, in one story Winslow refused to let Carmen buy football cards just because she's a conservative; meanwhile, she pointed out that the football ''players'' are far worse ("drug abuser... deadbeat dad... adulterer...!"). This was based on the controversy over RushLimbaugh wanting to buy a football team.

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* WeirdMoon: the moon starts to make faces when Carmen says we haven't been back in a long time

* MosesInTheBullrushes: Winslow claims this is how his story starts, with a basket in the rushes...

* IAmNotWeasel: Winslow is a coyote and he isn't too fond of people when they mistake him for a similar creature like a dog or wolf. Maybe a bit {{justified}} since coyotes are part of the canine family so he could be mistaken by those not familiar with coyotes or their appearances.

* AnxietyDreams: After supporting Kevin's election

* BadDreams: After supporting Kevin's election

* FollowTheLeader: After ''La Cucaracha'' and of course ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' (with switched personalities).
** And Winslow's life-long dream of flying. If that's not blatantly copying Opus, I don't know what it is.

* OnlySaneMan: Carmen often plays this role. A common way for the strip to present its political message is to have a caricature of liberal attitudes or policies portrayed as something silly or crazy, then have her respond in this way.

%%* OnlySaneMan: Carmen... usually.

## Context Free examples have been commented out. Please fix and uncomment them.
##* AFriendInNeed: Winslow and Carmen

##* AuthorAvatar
##* AuthorOnBoard

##* BlahBlahBlah

##* BreakOutCharacter: Kevin.

##* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Winslow, sometimes.

##* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight
##* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy
##* LoopholeAbuse
##* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Kevin's

##* TheMole: Carmen

##* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList
##* OnlySaneMan: Carmen... usually.
##* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass
##* PaperThinDisguise

##* ScrewySquirrel: Winslow sometimes

##* TalkAboutTheWeather

##* TorchesAndPitchforks
##* VitriolicBestBuds

##* WallOfBlather

##* YourHeadASplode

* AFriendInNeed: Winslow and Carmen

* AuthorAvatar
* AuthorOnBoard

* BlahBlahBlah

* BreakOutCharacter: Kevin.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Winslow, sometimes.

* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy
* LoopholeAbuse
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Kevin's

## Context Free Example, please fix.

* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList
* OnlySaneMan: Carmen... usually.
* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass
* PaperThinDisguise

* ScrewySquirrel: Winslow sometimes

* TalkAboutTheWeather

* TorchesAndPitchforks
* VitriolicBestBuds

* WallOfBlather

* YourHeadASplode

* TheMole: Carmen

* FollowTheLeader: After ''La Cucaracha'' and of course ''CalvinAndHobbes'' (with switched personalities).

A comic strip of a conservative/libertarian bent by Scott Stantis set in the eponymous Southwestern town. The main characters(frequently the ''only'' characters who appear for weeks at a time) are Carmen, a young Hispanic girl, [[AuthorAvatar representing the conservative point of view]] and Winslow, a coyote pup [[StrawCharacter representing the liberal view]].