WE LIKE HIM TOO Just in case you didn't receive any ...

TOO

Just in case you didn't receive any mail (you certainly didn't print any) supporting your dismissal of Mr. Wiggles, I thought you might need a little reassurance that you did the right thing. I never liked like that shitty little bear or his artist's tired shock-tooning formula. You even gave him a chance to print one last strip that could have shown us all what a mistake New York Press is making (like maybe a double suicide of its characters), but instead he goes out like a little pussy, whining and pleading for help. After reading about his firing, I quickly skipped ahead to check if Nicholas Gurewitch had ducked the axe. Phew! When you do fire him, here's a "Fuck You" in advance.

Joe Kelly, via email

PERVERTED EXCREMENT

Congratulations to New York Press for expunging the stench of that perverted excrement Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles. As soon as Neil Swaab left the building, I hope you counted the silverware.

As for the space in your page layout which Mr. Wiggles formerly polluted, please use it for something more ennobling and informative than Swaab's crapulent turdspiel? such as a few more of your tranny-sex ads.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, via email

GOOD RIDDANCE

Thanks for getting rid of that retarded Mr. Wiggles. What a lame comic strip. Week after week the same stupid predictable crap. We get it, the bear swears. The bear talks about smoking crack! That's SO edgy! Good riddance to the bear and his lousy humorless man friend. Everything else you've done with the paper may suck shit -but at least I don't have to look at that bear.

Jas Maestranzi, via email

TO THE POINT

Won't miss Wiggles.

Thanks.

Tim Gouldson, via email

A DISGUSTING SICKOLA

It's about time the disgusting sickola Mr. Wiggles was shown the gate. I'm amazed he lasted this long. His low-rent humor belongs in the sewers.

Sue Powell, via email

IF THIS ISN'T IN THE O.E.D., IT SHOULD BE

Getting rid of Mr. Wiggles was the last straw. Fucktarded fucktards.

FUCKTARDS

Main Entry: fucktarded Pronunciation: fuk-'tärded Function: adjective Etymology: early 21st century Middle American English (perhaps from c.m.u.), from Middle French or Latin; Middle French fuck (pejorative) retarder, from Latin retardare, from re- + tardus slow Transitive senses 1 : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment in a fucked up manner : New York Press 2 : to delay academic progress by failure to promote Intransitive senses : to undergo fucktardation Synonym see DELAY -fucktard noun also fucktardo

Dennis Gronim, Manhattan

TONY MILLIONAIRE!

I've been reading New York Press for seven years. I've always considered it superior to the Voice and I look forward to the new comics venture. Humor became vital for me after 9/11, and the New York Press used to have some of the best strips like Maakies and Mr. Wiggles.

Now I read Maakies online faithfully and I'll be very disappointed if I have to do the same with Mr. Wiggles. Please reconsider.

Alan Schenkel, via email

Just in case you didn't receive any mail (you certainly didn't print any) supporting your dismissal of Mr. Wiggles, I thought you might need a little reassurance that you did the right thing. I never liked like that shitty little bear or his artist's tired shock-tooning formula. You even gave him a chance to print one last strip that could have shown us all what a mistake New York Press is making (like maybe a double suicide of its characters), but instead he goes out like a little pussy, whining and pleading for help. After reading about his firing, I quickly skipped ahead to check if Nicholas Gurewitch had ducked the axe. Phew! When you do fire him, here's a "Fuck You" in advance.

Joe Kelly, via email

PERVERTED EXCREMENT

Congratulations to New York Press for expunging the stench of that perverted excrement Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles. As soon as Neil Swaab left the building, I hope you counted the silverware.

As for the space in your page layout which Mr. Wiggles formerly polluted, please use it for something more ennobling and informative than Swaab's crapulent turdspiel? such as a few more of your tranny-sex ads.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, via email

GOOD RIDDANCE

Thanks for getting rid of that retarded Mr. Wiggles. What a lame comic strip. Week after week the same stupid predictable crap. We get it, the bear swears. The bear talks about smoking crack! That's SO edgy! Good riddance to the bear and his lousy humorless man friend. Everything else you've done with the paper may suck shit -but at least I don't have to look at that bear.

Jas Maestranzi, via email

TO THE POINT

Won't miss Wiggles.

Thanks.

Tim Gouldson, via email

A DISGUSTING SICKOLA

It's about time the disgusting sickola Mr. Wiggles was shown the gate. I'm amazed he lasted this long. His low-rent humor belongs in the sewers.

Sue Powell, via email

IF THIS ISN'T IN THE O.E.D., IT SHOULD BE

Getting rid of Mr. Wiggles was the last straw. Fucktarded fucktards.

FUCKTARDS

Main Entry: fucktarded Pronunciation: fuk-'tärded Function: adjective Etymology: early 21st century Middle American English (perhaps from c.m.u.), from Middle French or Latin; Middle French fuck (pejorative) retarder, from Latin retardare, from re- + tardus slow Transitive senses 1 : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment in a fucked up manner : New York Press 2 : to delay academic progress by failure to promote Intransitive senses : to undergo fucktardation Synonym see DELAY -fucktard noun also fucktardo

Dennis Gronim, Manhattan

TONY MILLIONAIRE!

I've been reading New York Press for seven years. I've always considered it superior to the Voice and I look forward to the new comics venture. Humor became vital for me after 9/11, and the New York Press used to have some of the best strips like Maakies and Mr. Wiggles.

Now I read Maakies online faithfully and I'll be very disappointed if I have to do the same with Mr. Wiggles. Please reconsider.

Alan Schenkel, via email

WIGGLES vs. DOLLY

Please continue to run Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles. I know that the comic is pretty dark but there are many readers who find relief in such a humorous look at the dark side of life. What are you planning in its place? Maybe you can run some of the escapades that Billy and Dolly from The Family Circus get into.

Kris Testori, via email

The Family Circus is, to be honest, a bit too "edgy" for our tastes.-Eds.

SICKENING

Fantastic article. ["Pin-Up or Shut Up," Oct. 6] I've been a member of SuicideGirls since 2002 and I've witnessed its decline over the last year or so first-hand. It's true: You can't say a single critical thing, constructive or otherwise, about SG on the boards without having your community privileges revoked. It's sickening. Anyway, thanks!

Beau Audirsch, via email

MANIPULATIVE, ASS-KISSING BRATS

Suicide Girls's behavior with their "art" somehow mirrors the manner in which site members are treated. You pay for a membership and then are expected to voluntarily act for the site's benefit as seen through the Sean Suhl/Missy filter.

It's peculiar, an entire community of manipulative, ass-kissing brats. You're just incorrigible Mr. Maldonado.

K. C. Kyle, via email

NO NEED FOR APOLOGIES

To begin with, I would like to apologize for this incoming verbal blow-job, but José Maldonado's Suicide Girls article is the cause for it. Exposing this alternative nudie girl site for the lying, exploitive, money-withholding fraud that it is is damn sexy. Then again, I tend to fall in love with any article that cradles the word "fuckery." Maldonado tackled (or at least put a dent in) a story that I myself have been pursuing and he executed it with reasonably the same amount of flair as myself. Kudos!

P.S. Despite the complaints that New York Press has been receiving due to the replacement of editors, I think it's a nice change of pace.

A.M. Gilman, via email

Prescient

The best things New York Press had going for it were Matt Taibbi and Neil Swaab. In the past few months, you have fired both, opting, instead, for the inane Cosmo-esque estrogen pyscho-babble of one "Dr. Dot." Given recent events, I can only infer that this marks the gradual phasing out of the always insightful, always incising Judy McGuire. And we all know that would make you no better than the Village Voice.

Anne Marie Rooney, via email

ACTUALLY, THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE

You are turning this into Village Voice lite. Holy shit does it suck!

Christopher Persheff, Manhattan

BEATS FAMILY CIRCUS

Just wanted to tell you how much I've enjoyed "Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles" over the years and how sorry I am that it was dropped from New York Press.ÊIn truth I only read the pretty lame NY Press for 2 things: Jim Knipfel and Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles. Now that you're gone and I can just as easily (actually much more easily) find both you and Slackjaw online, I never have to subject myself to that lame, hipper-than-thou rag and it's awful comics like "The Perry Bible yadda yadda." Goddamit, who decided that "alternative comics" couldn't be funny?

Wiggles was my inspiration for picking up a pencil and starting my own strip. I'm a 35-year-old, semi-pro musician that hasn't drawn anything since he was 12, but thanks to Wiggles I started a strip called "Tiny Jesus" for the amusement of myself and my wife.

Thanks for everything Wiggles. I'll be tuning in online and I'm betting so will many others.

Jason Torres, via email