Pen-Elayne on the Web

Chock Full of Self-Love

You know, I thought the Sunday Doonesbury strip was pretty darn mild, m'self. But, as chronicled nicely by Daryl Cagle (ilnk at sidebar under "Kultcha"), probably the best blog source for info about comic strip "censorship" and other goings-on, a whole bunch of papers were too squeamish to run something that contained the word "masturbation." Daryl doesn't have permalinks, but his September 8 entry with the strip and links to articles about the controversy is pretty near the top of the page - his big news today is that "The Washington Post has announced that Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Berkeley Breathed, will resurrect a new, Sunday only, comic strip starring Opus the penguin, from his old Bloom County strip." Also, via Johnny Bacardi (link at sidebar under "Kultcha" as well), columnist Pam Platt from his hometown paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, uses the Trudeau controversy as a springboard for a great opinion column about the whole m-word thing in general.