Banned Books Awareness: The Daily Newspaper

The wit of cartoonists like Tom Toles, Mike Thompson, and the widely-popular Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau have amused and engaged readers for decades with their humorous take on the issues and subjects of the day, often poking fun at both sides of the debates.

Doonesbury is well known for its politically-motivated storylines; so much so that while some newspapers print the strip on their regular comics page, most publications place it with similar strips on an adjacent page, or in their Opinion and Editorial section.

The controversy of late is that Doonesbury has been censored because of recent storylines aimed at the birth control debate. The series of strips, which ran from March 13-17.

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