The mystery of what was so “offensive” about last Friday’s Doonesbury seems to be solved. Daily Cartoonist reader Jimmy Delach noted in the comments that The Chicago Tribune has told its readers that they pulled the comic because it “broke from its satirical mission in order to deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific […]
The GoComics blog notes that today’s Doonesbury has been pulled from at least one major market . No indication which paper or the reason. The only thing I can observe is the use of a QR code that takes the reader (provided they have a QR code reader on their mobile device) to donorschoose.org. Scandalous. […]
I don’t have an iron-clad rule about avoiding political cartoons, as regular readers will know and newcomers can find by scrolling through the recent past. But I’ve been consciously putting them second or third in the daily queue as I collect the three or four potential candidates for CSOTD, for a couple of reasons.One is […]
I’ve taken a couple of respectful lumps for siding with the newspapers that opted to drop Doonesbury for the week. Now that I’ve seen the entirety of the storyline, I can see how a reasonable editor would say, “this is out of bounds.” John Kass wrote an article for The Chicago Tribune about the whole […]
I’ve read a few reactions to the news that some newspapers have pulled this week’s Doonesbury that mocked Sarah Palin. Here’s a quick recap of some of the voices and then I’ll add my own.Brigid Alverson from Comic Book Resources:On the one hand, I want to defend Trudeau’s right to publish his strip (editors who […]
Jim Romenesko reports (actually re-reports what Michael Cavna first reported) that in addition to The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Newsday have opted out of running this week’s Doonesbury. The editor of the AJC cites that the strip was axed because, “the book is not yet published, Ms. Palin has not had an opportunity […]
As reported yesterday, at least one major paper has opted not to run this weeks Doonesbury. This week Garry Trudeau uses the comic to poke fun at former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin with information from an advanced copy of the new biography by Joe McGinniss. It was later reported that […]
Doonesbury’s most celebrated journalist is tweeting about Joe McGinniss’s upcoming book on Sarah Palin this week from the actual text of the book.Michael Cavna has the story, but the gist of it is that, last year, Doonesbury riffed on McGinniss’s research into the book, which involved going to Alaska and renting a house next door […]
Michael Cavna reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an advance copy of Joe McGinniss’ new biography of Sarah Palin and that the two entered into a partnership allowing Garry the ability to use the material in his comic before the book is released. The first of the Doonesbury series started today. Trudeau and […]
The Irish Times reports that Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau was given an honorary doctorate for his cartooning career by the University College Dublin.
Politico reporter Chris Frates had a front row seat to a heated email exchange between Doonebury creator Garry Trudeau and lobbyist Lanny Davis over last week’s storyline involving lobbyists for Arab dictators. Last Friday’s strip specifically mentioned Davis as one who is representing the reprehensible Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo. Davis criticized the cartoon in Politico […]
Doonesbury continues to explore the gap between the privileged kids who head off to private, four-year colleges after high school, and the working class stiffs who end up in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and trailer parks.Alex should be embarrassed over her lack of empathy for Leo when it comes to goals, but I wouldn’t be […]
Politifact.com decides to fact check Sunday’s Doonesbury strip that claims since 9/11 “270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home.”We began by contacting Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who has drawn Doonesbury for more than four decades. He got back immediately with a summary of his methodology. “The final figure lacks precision, because it’s extrapolated,” Trudeau […]
Doonesbury uses this narrative technique better than anybody in the business — ramp it up just enough to show how silly it is, but not to the point where it no longer reflects the original thought.By using Mike-watching-television rather than Roland-interviewing-speaker, Trudeau avoids having to depict Congressman Shuler, who has indeed said he plans to […]
Today’s Stone Soup stands up well enough on its own, but to absorb the full effect of the bathos, you have to have been following the saga of “Holly’s boyfriend” since it began nearly a full month ago. We’ve not only gone through the sturm und drang alluded to here of Holly’s mom insisting on […]