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Doonesbury Comic Strip for November 26, 2023

When the Polk Awards decided to honor the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, one obvious name came to mind. Gary Trudeau.

SEE LINK BELOW The cartoon that Gary Trudeau had in the Sunday Comics was the most tasteless abomination I've seen, even for him. Joking about forest fire fighters being ineffective at doing their job, being impaired because they were inhaling marijuana smoke from a illegal "grow", so close to when 19 were killed fighting a recent forest fire, not only made me cringe it made me wonder about the mental capabilities and judgement of the those who chose to include this strip. Trudeau was kicked off the Washington Post's comics page and moved to the editorial page for his tactlessness...

Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau says President Barack Obama is difficult to satirize. In an interview marking Doonesbury's 40th anniversary, Slate.com's David Plotz asked Trudeau: Who's the hardest politician to satirize, and why? Trudeau answered:

Anyone see today's Sunday "Doonesbry" column? As many of you know the Ultra-Left starting with moveon.org made insidious references President George W. Bush being Adolf Hitler reincarnate. That we were living under a repressive regime, etc.. Well today Gary Trudeau in "Doonesbury" seems to be making the same kind of comparison to President Obama except in his case it isn't too far from the truth. Any thoughts out there on this? Is this an example of some of the Left having grave doubts about Obama? Have at it then with your opinions.

A controversial contest for cartoons of the Holocaust was launched in Iran on Monday in a tit-for-tat move over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have enflamed Muslims worldwide. The first entry was said to be from renowned Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig, according to the Website organizing the competition with Iran's biggest selling newspaper Hamshahri, triggering outrage in the United States and Germany in particular. "As a show of solidarity with the Muslim world, and an exercise in free speech, I would like to submit a cartoon to you on the theme of the Holocaust," Leunig was quoted as...

Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore, remembers feeling stunned when the fan letter showed up in February 1998. After all, his strip— featuring a right-leaning TV newsman or, more accurately, newsduck—was still in its relative infancy. Yet here was George Herbert Walker Bush declaring that he and Barbara turned to Mallard, “sage duck that he is,” first thing every morning. Even more gratifying, the former president thanked Tinsley for taking on “that horrible Doonesbury” and its creator, liberal icon Garry Trudeau, “a guy that tore me up in a vicious, personal way strip after strip.” By...

If children read anything in the newspapers anymore, it's still the Sunday comics section -- that inviting spread of colored cartoon art, that staple of Silly Putty advertising. One of the industry's best-known cartoonists is Garry Trudeau, the envelope-pushing baby boomer creator of "Doonesbury." He's now delivered controversy again with his signature. He sent to his syndicate a Sunday strip with a new topic: masturbation. "There's a new study that suggests regular masturbation prevents prostate cancer," says one of the strip's characters, the oh-so-relevant Reverend Scot Sloan. A few panels later, slacker Zonker arrives to announce "self-dating prevents cancer." Trudeau...

Nobody bites at auction for Doonesbury comic strips PORTLAND - Remember those Doonesbury comic strips that made fun of Portland's school funding problems? On Friday, supporters of Measure 26-48 were ready to auction off three more of Gary Trudeau's original strips. All the proceeds were meant to help out the Portland School District. There was only one problem - no one made a bid. However, that did not stop the measure's supporters from pushing their message about the upcoming election. "Anybody in Multnomah County can go and drop their ballot off. We need to have people do that. This...

he British poet Philip Larkin, asked why he voted Conservative, replied that he believed the Left to stand for “dishonesty, idleness, and treason.” It seems to me that Larkin omitted one key component of the lefty mind-set: snobbery.The essence of the modern Left, from Lenin to the Clintons, is a contempt for ordinary people — for their blindness to their own interests, for their inability to see that society needs radically reorganizing, for their reluctance to let themselves be shoveled around like truckloads of concrete in order to accomplish that reorganization, for their degraded tastes in everything from food...

reasononline July 2002 DoonesburiedThe decline of Garry Trudeau -- and of baby boom liberalism.By Jesse WalkerA kid calls the FBI’s terrorism tip line. "I am very serious," he says. "I know of several Americans who have helped train and finance Osama bin Laden." The feds ask him for the names. "Well, let’s see. First one is Reagan. That’s R-E-A-G...Hello? Hello?"That was an October edition of The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder’s comic strip about a precocious black radical. The cartoon caused a small furor, with several newspapers refusing to run it. The New York Daily News went further, dropping the strip for...