This week's Doonesbury series follows a young woman who faces a mandatory sonogram as she tries to get an abortion, and among the multitude of reasons papers are giving for not running it, an Athens, Georgia, editor said he was afraid readers would mistake the fictional comic strip for actual news reporting.
For the second time in a year, newspapers are temporarily removing controversial Doonesbury strips from their papers, meaning that, for the second time in a year, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau has stumbled into a winning publicity strategy.
Author and unwanted Palin neighbor Joe McGinnis cut a deal with Garry Trudeau
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