Amid all this talk about same-sex marriage, there’s still a lot of regular-old-marriage out there to be mined for humor, or maybe for contemplation, and two of the better storytelling strips out there are doing wedding arcs at the moment.Or maybe not.Arlo and Janis is more of a “you got that right” strip than a […]
One of the issues in comics, as in TV sitcoms, is how you work with the basic concept over an extended period without going stale.I mention TV because I heard an interview with Garry Marshall on Weekend Edition yesterday, and Scott Simon asked him to comment on how Henry Winkler’s character took over on “Happy Days.”I might […]
It’s not remarkable to find politics in a political strip, and Prickly City is a political strip, one of a couple of attempts to find a responsible opposing voice to Doonesbury.Which quest has posed two major problems: One is the assumption that Doonesbury invariably presents the “liberal” point of view, and I put “liberal” in “quotation […]
Politico reports that Michael Masley, a Doonesbury fan, has launched a campaign to solicit a groundswell of support to give The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau.The campaign currently has over 1,800 members.I’ll admit I don’t know what the usual process is for determining candidates for this award, but I’m pretty sure […]
When Salt Lake Tribune editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley found out his paper was going to pull last Thursday’s Doonesbury, he found a creative way to keep it in the paper – he used it in his editorial cartoon. Each week Pat posts a online-column called “Behind the Lines” wherein he and BYU economist Val Lambson […]
A really good interview over at Slate by Emily Bazelon with Garry Trudeau over the dust up over this week’s abortion series. The whole Interview is worth the time to read for a good insider perspective to the controversy. Here’s a bit from a question about how Doonesbury competes with shows like SNL and The […]
The Salt Lake Tribune decided to run this week’s Doonesbury, but at the last moment got cold feet with today’s “I thee rape” strip. Unsatisfied with the decision, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, Pat Bagley, found a unique solution – he put the strip in his editorial cartoon as seen below. For the non-locals: the hot-tub […]
Next Media Animation has posted an dramatized animation explaining the controversy created by this week’s Doonesbury. Contains great scenes of Garry Trudeau busting out a can o’ whoop a– (doink!, boink! and yoink!) on Rick Perry and others.
This week’s much censored Doonesbury isn’t the first time the strip’s creator Garry Trudeau has delved into the heated debate on abortion. Back in 1985, he did a week series on the topic but it never got to the newspapers because his syndicate felt it would be “deeply harmful to the feature.”Garry has now posted […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looks at the impact and politics of Doonesbury’s comic strip this week.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I’ve been tracking the list of newspapers that are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury, have moved it to their editorial page, or some other variation (dropping select dates; reprinting all of them this weekend, etc.). So far 57 papers have pulled the strips. So the unasked question now is if Garry Trudeau has lost […]
The Poughkeepsie Journal has posted ALL of this week’s Doonesbury for viewing/download. Now you can read them all in one sitting just like the newspaper editors did and decide if it should run, move to another section (editorial page) or ask for alternatives. I thought Thursday’s was a bit jarring for normal newspaper comic fare […]
One of the more frequent trials a newspaper editor faces is being polite to the person who has written an over-the-top, potentially libelous but certainly nonsensical letter to the editor and wants to know why it has not been published in the paper.You don’t have to ask if the person on the phone is actually […]
The following papers have announced (or are mentioned in news articles as having announced) that they have pulled this week’s Doonesbury regarding Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion.Papers who are pulling the series: The Missoulian The Standard-Examiner (Utah) The Herald, (SC) The Press of Atlantic City ( NJ) […]
Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury is being pulled in about a dozen newspapers this week over the topic of Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound prior to having an abortion. According to Reuters, The Oregonian said it was pulling it because it “went over the line of good taste and humor” and The LA Times […]