Daily Cartoonist: Chicago Tribune Pulls Doonesbury Strip



It hasn't made the news yet -- at least it hasn't made the wire stories searchable by Google -- but Alan Gardner and the readers of his Daily Cartoonist blog caught that a recent Doonesbury was pulled by the Chicago Tribune via an announcement on the GoComics blog. Here's the thing, though: they can't figure out why and I really can't, either. The strip in question contained a scannable code through which a reader could be directed to the DonorsChoose.org site. This might have conceivably triggered something at the Tribune in terms of a broad policy aimed against solicitation or outside coding, although a couple of Gardner's cartoonist readers note that other cartoonists have put codes in their strips before without reprisal. An additional oddity is that this may be the most benign strip that Trudeau's run in a while, as he's been focused on the Republican nominees for President for a bit now.
 
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