Artist Pol Medina Jr., creator of long-running comic strip Pugad Baboy, has apologized to St. Scholastica’s College saying he understood why its administration and students would be offended.
“I’m saying sorry to them. I won’t win here because I’m really in the wrong. They were minding their own business and I poked fun at them. Of course, they’d be offended,” he said in Filipino in a Radio DZMM report.
The strip commented on supposed hypocrisy among Filipino Catholics in condemning homosexuality. Characters in the strip implied nuns at St. Scholastica’s condoned lesbian relationships between their students and wondered aloud whether the nuns were lesbians themselves.
The Inquirer has suspended Pugad Baboy while the matter is under investigation. It has also apologized for publishing the strip, saying it had been rejected but was used because of a mix up.
