It was great.
Al Capp was a master at humor and the speeches he was personally giving on college campuses opposing the Communists, anti-war thugs, and immoral hippies were extremely effective. The Left had to do something!
So they accused him of sexual peccadillos with some radical female students. There was little evidence but lots of Leftist outrage, demonstrations, and violence. The resulting moral uproar by the Leftist media and their propaganda organs was deafening. They bullied most newspapers to suspend his comic strips immediately. His reputation and livelihood was ruined by the manufactured "scandal" and associated lawsuits and he quickly went bankrupt and faded from the scene. It was a 1960s version of being "Donald Trumped" except Capp was not financially able to fight the Marxist mobs and media..
At least that's how I remembered it.