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Such charges may seem fantastic, the sort of misinformation one typically finds only in The National Enquirer. Currently, however, those charges are being made in the pages of about 1400 respected newspapers nationwide--in the comic pages. The man making the accusation is Garry Trudeau, a noted cartoonist, and the vessel is "Doonesbury," Trudeau's famous (or infamous) comic strip...
...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...
...racism. It's a place the band knows intimately, if not exactly by birth. Chuck D, born Carlton Ridenhour, was the eldest of three children of a middle-class family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew a comic strip for the campus paper and casually considered a career like his father's, as a graphic designer. He met producer Hank Shocklee and Flavor Flav (then William Drayton) at the campus radio station, and graphics soon got subsumed into graphic language and a grandiose beat...
...saying that we approach the wit of Dickens and Twain, although we do. But if either of these men were living in 20th-century Harvard, their comic talents would be squashed by the OFA, a group that purports to harness creativity but actually stifles it at its source...