Prickly City

By Marshall Ramsey

A small town in the American Southwest ... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you, or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st-century Earth? Prickly City is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid. Prickly City offers a conservative perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will always be right."

Their high jinks provide endless laughs as Winslow gets into trouble and Carmen follows. Join Carmen and Winslow for their adventures in the desert!

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About Marshall Ramsey

Marshall Ramsey is an award-winning editorial cartoonist and speaker who's a two-time Pulitzer Finalist (2002 and 2006) and a 2022 Southeastern Emmy winner. He also cares for and feeds the nationally syndicated comic strip Prickly City. His editorial cartoons appear in Mississippi Today and have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger.

He's also the author of several successful books, including three cartoon collections, two short story collections (Fried Chicken and Wine and Chainsaws and Casseroles), and the children's books Banjo's Dream and Saving Sam! A Banjo the Dog Story. He was also the longtime host of the award-winning weekly statewide radio program Now You're Talking with Marshall Ramsey on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. He has appeared on Fox & Friends, Inside Edition, CBSN, and CNN New Day.

He, his wife, Amy, and their dog, Ollie, live in Mississippi, where he serves as Director of the Mississippi Media Lab for the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi.

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Carmen

Carmen is grounded and very sure of what she is. She is an innocent who loves being a child. She fights tooth and nail against a society that wants her to grow up too fast. She is certain of her place on the moral high ground and passionately dedicated to common sense, the promise of America and her best friend, Winslow.

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Winslow

A coyote cub, Winslow is an innocent awash in the flood of popular mores. He is susceptible to every fad that comes along. It's part of his charm and the root of much of his best friend Carmen's frustrations with him. His one certainty is his friendship with Carmen, his bosom pal.