Doonesbury

Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. The title comes from the name of one of the main characters, Michael Doonesbury, a character Trudeau originally modeled after himself. The character's name is a combination of the word doone — 1960s prep school slang for "someone unafraid to appear foolish" — with the surname of the roommate who was given that nickname, Charles Pillsbury.

Censorship

Conservatives have long called for the censorship of Doonesbury. For example, when Lacy Davenport's husband, in the last moments before his death, calls on God, several conservative pundits, apparently not understanding the context, called the strip blasphemous.

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When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq, conservative commentators accused Garry Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

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After many letter writing campaigns demanding the removal of the strip were unsuccessful, conservatives changed their tactics, and instead of writing to newspaper editors, they began writing to one of the printers who prints the color Sunday comics. In 2005, Continental Features gave in to their demands, and refused to continue printing the Sunday Doonesbury, causing it to disappear from the 38 Sunday papers that Continental Features printed. Of the 38, only one newspaper The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, continued to carry the Sunday Doonesbury, though of necessity in black and white.

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2005 - The Anniston Star - Anniston - Alabama

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The following is the 22 July 1978 strip, which focused on Delta Kappa Epsilon:

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22 July - 1978 - Delta Kappa Epsilon

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