Newspapers complains over Doonesbury bathroom humor

Bathroom humor isn’t going over well with a number of newspapers that carry the Doonesbury comic strip. The comics running Tuesday and Wednesday will show a caricature of President Bush referring to his top political adviser, Karl Rove, by the nickname “turd blossom.”

Nearly a dozen newspapers have complained to the distributor of Doonesbury, Universal Press Syndicate, some saying they would not run the comic at all and some will print and edited version, writes wistv.com. 

Universal Press didn’t offer alternative strips to use, as it’s done in the past when there’s controversial content.

Update 28/07
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau comments the editor decisions to edit his work:

“The syndicate and I accept that from time to time individual editors may object to particular strips and decide to drop them. What’s not acceptable to us, however, is for editors to alter the content of a strip and represent it as what I sent them. In most cases, changing the dialogue compromises its meaning or rhythm or humor. Sometimes, the strip no longer even makes sense. Who benefits from that? We’d prefer that an offending strip be dropped altogether.”

Source: Dave Astor, Editor & Publisher

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