Doonesbury dropped for a wedding proposal

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1. Terry LaBan

   Did he hire Ted Rall to draw it?

2. Tom Heintjes

   Geez, it only takes a couple of hundred bucks to get a paper to drop a major strip for a day? That’s a very sad commentary on how the strips are perceived by the paper’s editors. What would it take to get them to drop a lesser strip–say, Marmaduke–for a day? A bag of Funyuns?

3. Beth Cravens

   Why couldn’t they give the man his own space for $190? Wouldn’t have had to drop the strip.

4. Nick Wright

   While Tom’s comment was hilarious, it was in The Olympian, which has a circulation of about 33K. It’s not exactly The New York Times.

5. Mark_Tatulli

   Wasn’t Guy Endore-Kaiser the first to do this?

6. Mark Parisi

   I proposed to my wife in a cartoon in the early 1990s. Screw Guy Endore-Whatshisname.

7. BOB QUICK

   …I sense a new trend starting…pay the newspapers to print your strips.

8. Ben Carlsen

   Right… so what’s the word from Mr. Trudeau on this?

9. Mike Peterson

   It would have been a sweet little joke, if they had moved Doonesbury elsewhere in the paper for the day instead of dropping it completely. Stay classy, Olympian.

10. Keith Mclean

    That’s a sweet story. I’m not sure of what other strips run in the paper, but couldn’t they have dropped something a little bit less high profile? Maybe they got permission or something, I don’t know. Nice story though.

11. Matt Bors

    “Maybe they got permission”

    From themselves?

    Personally, I think a public wedding proposal as if you were living in a rom/com is tacky, but I guess if people were really upset about not seeing Doonesbury for a day (the horror!) they could have found it on the series of tubes.

12. Scott Metzger

    This gives me an idea…a few years from now I?m going to pay the local paper to drop Doonesbury and run my comic strip called ?Why Simon is Gone.? It?ll be a good way to tell my daughter the cat died.

    Anything to avoid that awkward conversation.

13. Stephen Beals

    You could try that, Scott, or use the classic singing telegram.

    Our local county flyer, which I think runs three times a week, wanted $100 for a 2″X2″ ad (which I was going to place for my father-in-law’s business). Now I need to look up what their circ is, because I should’ve just bought the Doonesbury spot.

    Actually, they don’t run Doonesbury. They have a whopping two comic strips.

14. rodd perry

    Those closeups are a good reminder of how crappy newspaper printing looks.

15. Mike Lester

    This girl doesn’t know when she’s being stalked.

16. Gary McCoy

    My syndicate actively solicits garage sale ads to run in place of The Flying McCoys.

17. Mark Parisi

    I’m pretty sure this guy is now technically engaged to Jane Pauley.

18. Stacy Curtis

    John Kovalic proposed to his wife in his comic and it ended up in the National Enquirer.

    http://www.dorktower.com/about-john-kovalic/national-enquirer/

19. Mike Lester

    Why do I have Keith Morrison’s voice in my head detailing the odd comic related engagement of this woman who later mysteriously vanished until remnants of her body were later discovered in a hot dog casing?

20. Jim Lavery

    Donald Trump is going to use this method to announce his candidacy for president. He’ll be replacing “Mr. Boffo” for the day.

21. Gary Dunaier

    The Doonesbury strip apparently wasn’t dropped… it’s a little fuzzy, but if you look at the top of the strip it says “Paid Advertisement (find the Doonesbury strip on page ##).”

22. Mike Peterson

    Thanks, Gary. That removes my only objection.

    Now I just have to decide which is the story: The proposal in comic form, or the mass of knotted knickers it inspired.

23. Mark Parisi

    Good luck to the happy couple and may they continue to have knotted knickers together.