By: Dave Astor Has "Doonesbury" been in the news even more than usual lately? Garry Trudeau thinks so. "This has been the most sustained period of strong reaction in recent years," he tells E&P. The polarizing Iraq war, of course, has had a lot to do with that.
Among the comics eliciting big responses were the ones about B.D. losing his leg in Iraq, and two Sunday strips late last month.
The May 23 one pictured a severed head that Trudeau drew before Nick Berg's videotaped murder. Due to early Sunday-comic deadlines, it was too late for many newspapers to pull the strip.
On May 30, just prior to Memorial Day, Trudeau listed more than 700 people who have died in Iraq. Why? "Because there is power in seeing actual names instead of numbers," says Trudeau, who runs in 1,400 papers via Universal Press Syndicate. "Honor rolls always help deepen our understanding of what has been lost."
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