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...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...
Such realism is a long way from the days when blacks showed up in comic strips primarily as demeaning stereotypes. "At the most extreme," says Steven L. Jones, a Philadelphia-based researcher in black popular culture, "they used an eight ball for a face, with large eyes and a line for a mouth with a shadow around it to represent oversized lips." The crude caricatures gave way to less offensive images during the civil rights movement. A black playmate, Franklin, joined the Peanuts gang in 1968; the Afro-wearing Lieut. Flap became the resident militant in Beetle Bailey...
...faded from the funny pages as well. Wee Pals, which once appeared in 109 papers, is now carried in fewer than 50; Luther ended an 18-year run in 1986. In the '90s, however, a growing number of editors at major urban dailies have begun to look at black comics as a way to attract new readers in a time of changing demographics and declining readership. "My community happens to be largely black, and we know young readers turn to the comic pages," says Marty Claus, an editor at the Detroit Free Press. Claus is credited with igniting much...