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Last Friday, the Chicago Tribune chose — for the second time since last September — not to run a “Doonesbury” strip. The reason this time, according to the Tribune: The comic “broke from its satirical mission” so it could ”deliver a direct fundraising appeal for a specific charity” — DonorsChoose.org. A note that ran in the paper explains: “The Tribune’s editorial practices do not allow individuals to promote their self-interests.” Reached over the weekend by Comic Riffs, Trudeau raises two issues with this explanation...
Thursday, January 19th, at 10PM on FBN...
As a part of the IU College of Arts and Science’s Themester 2011: “Making War, Making Peace,” famed cartoon artist Garry Trudeau lectured to an audience at the Indiana Memorial Union on Monday.
Trudeau is known for creating the political comic strip “Doonesbury,” which now appears in more than 1,400 Sunday newspapers worldwide. The strip has been running for 41 years..
Whether you are a “Doonesbury” fan or critic, you probably know that artist Gary Trudeau often skewers politicians. So some readers were surprised this week at an editors’ note explaining that 2009 cartoons were used instead of new cartoons described as having “strong partisan content based on an unpublished book.” AJC editors say it wasn’t the subject of the strip but rather the unusual nature of the content that called for special treatment...
It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead.
The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in Wasilla and moving in next door to Palin as if moving in on his prey. The former Alaska guv sounded ticked. McGinniss sounded tickled. And much of the public chose sides over all this northern overexposure...
...The remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without more information, context and a response from Palin...
When “Doonesbury” character Roland Hedley got his hands on a copy of author Joe McGinniss’s Sarah Palin book he couldn’t believe his good luck... But are these tweets an actual preview of the book? Yes...
In the first page of Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #58, Mike Doonesbury and Zonker Harris from the famed comic strip Doonesbury stop by...
In Dublin to receive an honorary doctorate for four decades’ work on his Doonesbury cartoon strip, Garry Trudeau tells FRANK McNALLY about his family’s link to old Irish bank notes and that despite the doom and gloom, he remains an optimist...
As I'm old enough to recall the stereotypes that formed around Vietnam veterans, I'm well aware of this danger. The purpose of my stories has been to participate in the national conversation about the costs of war...
