Doonesbury Begins New Hiatus Today

Garry Trudeau begins a three-month break away from his Doonesbury today, and Alan Gardner has a nice round-up of what some of that feature's client papers are doing in response. The newspaper strip market is so competitive on so many levels right now that the opportunity for a three-month window through which papers might try out new features makes this more significant publishing news than it might otherwise be. Trudeau is also the cartoonist that pioneered these kinds of breaks. His initial time away from the feature, coming years ago, allowed many newspapers to sample Bloom County. Papers also have the option of a specially-selected Doonesbury reruns package, for which they won't be charged.

Trudeau will be back in time for the political conventions. I can't imagine he's as happy about leaving right this moment as he would have been were both presidential party nominations wrapped up as has usually been the case in election years past, although maybe he's pleased to step away from the tar pit-like sink that is modern politics for a time.
 
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