By: Dave Astor Some "Doonesbury" clients were able to drop Sunday's strip about Harriet Miers and some weren't.
Previously, Universal Press Syndicate pulled Garry Trudeau's daily strips about Miers that were scheduled to run the week of Oct. 31 (E&P Online, Oct. 27). That sequence -- which humorously showed Miers practicing for her Senate confirmation hearings -- became obsolete after she withdrew as a Supreme Court nominee.
The Nov. 13 strip also focused on Miers' hearings preparation. (Sunday comics are done farther in advance than daily ones.) Some newspapers had publication deadlines that allowed them to replace the Miers strip with one about Trudeau's Zonker character. Other papers had already went to press with their Sunday comics sections before Miers withdrew. Universal said it didn't know how many clients fell into each camp.
How often does a Sunday comic become out-of-date before it runs? "Fortunately it happens only rarely, but it does happen," replied Lee Salem, executive vice president and editor of Universal.
"Doonesbury" appears in about 1,400 daily and Sunday newspapers.
In other "Doonesbury" news, the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald announced Sunday that its readers voted to keep Trudeau's comic by a 72% to 28% margin. The survey drew 509 responses.
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