Word: comic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades, Trudeau has poked fun at presidents, policy, and pop culture, all the while raising eyebrows and sometimes loud objections from readers. In fact, the strip has been so hard-hitting that about 30 percent of the papers that carry it do not run it in the comic section, but on another page, usually with the editorials...
Reader reaction has been strong, as well: "This is garbage, not comics," wrote one Globe reader. Another added, "The Globe is digging very low by running this so-called 'comic.'" A number of noted columnists have also decried the sequence or the editors who allowed it to be published...
...safe to say that no other comic strip has prompted as many comments from celebrities, politicians and other American public personages, or for that matter typical comic strip readers, as has Doonesbury. This bespeaks both the number of people who read Doonesbury and, more importantly, the influence the strip...
DOONESBURY is one of the top comic strips in newspapers today, due in large part to the fact that it pulls no punches in satirizing public figures. In relying on rumor rather than proven fact, however, Trudeau is hitting below the belt, stooping to the level of slur and innuendo rather than poignant satire...
...years, the funny pages have been no laughing matter for blacks and other Americans of color. They seldom saw themselves in newspaper comic strips, which were as segregated as the society whose goings-on they caricatured. Suddenly, however, the color barriers are falling down. As rap music goes mainstream and movies by black directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton become mass-audience hits, African-American cartoonists are tickling the public fancy in newspapers across the country...