Doonesbury Taking Twelve Week Break




Universal Press Syndicate announced yesterday that Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury will be taking a twelve-week break from March 23 to June 16, during which the cartoonist will recharge his creative batteries. The syndicate plans to offer 12 weeks of selected re-runs free to Doonesbury clients during that period. It's interesting to note that they're announcing this really close to the deadline cut-off, one might hazard a guess so that other syndicates can't more easily jump in with specially-packaged 12-week trials of newer strips for these papers to run when Trudeau's strip is on hiatus. Trudeau is of course famous for his lengthy sabbaticals, including one in the early 1980s which allowed Bloom County to gain some traction with various newspapers. The article notes that this is Trudeau's first such time off in 16 years, and that he'll be back in time for the political party conventions.
 
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