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Controversial Anti-Palin 'Doonesbury' Comics Result of Collaboration Between Trudeau, Disgraced McGinniss

Last week in HuffPo:

Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic has been pulled from the Chicago Tribune this week because, according to the newspaper’s editorial staff, its content, excerpted from Joe McGinniss’s Sarah Palin biography, violates their standards of fairness. …

But McGinniss has been open about his collaboration with the Trudeau, whose fictional character, Roland Hedley, has been “stalking” McGinniss throughout his process of researching the biography. Prior to the book’s scheduled Sept. 20 release date, several excerpts are due to appear in “Doonesbury” strips — all with the author’s blessing, according to the Washington Post.



Trudeau confirmed that the excerpts come from an advance edition that McGinnis sent him last spring, and the author’s publicist at Random House/Crown told the Post “that Joe did like the 2010 ‘Doonesbury’ cartoons, and [that’s] why his agent reached out to Mr. Trudeau.”

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