Read the article, it might have had something to do with lead time. Still, you’d think the publishers would have some sort of contingency plan, an old strip to paste in when the one in the pipeline needed to be pulled. I suppose the dead tree distribution chain has a long lead time.
IIRC, Trudeau doesn’t actually do the strip any more. He has underlings for that now...................
He absolutely knew about this before it was going to run, he just doesn’t care ‘because the point was the same’ or some crappola.
“We had some internal discussion about whether the flaws in the [Rolling Stone] reporting mattered here, and we concluded they didn’t,” Trudeau says.”
“For any newspaper editors who might have balked at the campus-rape “Doonesbury” comic, a substitute strip was at the ready. The syndicate tells Comic Riffs that it received replacement requests from the Chicago Tribune, the Bergen Record, the Providence Journal and the Evansville Courier.”
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I think it's proof=positive that no one reads Doonesbury. Or cares.
They publish it because they always have.