Get Conley: Popular Cartoonist Sued?

According to this article, cartoonist Darby Conley has been sued by a Boston-area newscaster for an inference in the Get Fuzzy strip that appears on the air intoxicated. Although I have no problem believing such a line could exist in one of Conley's strips, my problem is that the day in question as displayed by the syndicate and subscribing papers offers a strip that has nothing to with what's described. Neither does anything from Get Fuzzy in the past month. I guess it could have been swapped out; it is a very generic joke, the kind of thing an editor might reach for when needing a quick swap-out. One part of the story that stands out notes that papers might not get sued if they had taken it upon themselves to edit out the plaintiff's name, which seems to set up all sort of awful implications.

Update: Reader John Platt is definitely smarter than I am, as he knows that Yahoo carries strips and I did not. Here's a panel the 5/13 Get Fuzzy in question with a link leading to yahoo's archived strip. I'll also put a copy in commentary, in case Yahoo ditches it.


 
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