# Please explain today's doonesberry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703 "2006-10-08T12:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/1 "2006-10-08T12:36:26Z")
[Link](http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2006/10/08/) Are there panels missing, or did I miss something in the news? I see one panel with a soldier and the caption: Click! Click! Clickety Click! Are the soldiers in Iraq running out of ammo? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/2 "2006-10-08T12:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] [Link](http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2006/10/08/) Are there panels missing, or did I miss something in the news? I see one panel with a soldier and the caption: Click! Click! Clickety Click! Are the soldiers in Iraq running out of ammo? [/QUOTE] Trudeau is launching a new blog for military personnel today called the Sandbox. I believe the soldier is supposed to be typing and more will probably be revealed as the week goes on. [Link](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb447352.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/3 "2006-10-08T15:02:18Z")
[The Sandbox](http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/). ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/4 "2006-10-08T20:26:13Z")
The strip was a heck of a lot longer in my newspaper today. ---
**Author:** ![Stentor\_2.5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stentor\_2.5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor_2.5)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/5 "2006-10-08T21:59:48Z")
Honestly, I spent most of the day thinking that was Roland Hedley. I could imagine a storyline in which he dies in Iraq starting that way. I know Roland is usually played as a buffoon, but I could still imagine him going out decently. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/6 "2006-10-08T22:45:59Z")
Would someone be willing to describe what appeared in the newspaper? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/7 "2006-10-08T23:00:42Z")
1st panel: Soldier Hightower’s face and noise of typing. 2nd Panel: Hightower watches another soldier type “it was a dark and messed up night” 3rd panel: Hightower: “hey folks, you may have heard how dangerous its become for the press to cover operations OIF and OEF.” 4th panel: “Result: the public feels increasingly disconnected from the troops in the field. Solution: Let the trooops report on themselves!” 5th panel: “Presenting the SANDBOX- Our command-wide milblog! Starting today, GWOT-LIT has a new home, and its exclusively at [Doonesbury.com](http://Doonesbury.com)!” 6th Panel: " At the sandbox, contributors can operate in a clean, lighly edited debriefing environment where all content, no matter how robust, is secured by the first amendment!" 7th panel: Hightower: “So if you support the troops but haven’t a clue what they’re actually up to you owe it to yourself to log onto the sandbox!” Soldier typing: “Dear sandbox: another sleepless night out on the wire…” 8th panel: Hightower: “Its your war, america! Check it out or you know who wins!” Soldier typing: " I think I might have restless leg syndrome". ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/8 "2006-10-08T23:55:53Z")
To the credit of the _Akron Beacon Journal_, it was run in it’s entirety today. They usually don’t shrink from controversy. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/9 "2006-10-09T00:06:36Z")
Woah. How much self-selecting censorship is going on in the US these days…? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/10 "2006-10-09T00:53:42Z")
It ran in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the most conservative newspaper West of the Mississippi. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/11 "2006-10-09T01:12:14Z")
What I don’t understand is why the full strip is not running at the Doonesbury website. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/12 "2006-10-09T01:22:29Z")
Glitch? Or something more sinkister? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/13 "2006-10-09T01:23:33Z")
Yeah. That’s “sinister” spelled with a cat pawing at the keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/14 "2006-10-09T03:13:51Z")
Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/15 "2006-10-09T03:25:13Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? [/QUOTE] How about taking your politics elsewhere? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/16 "2006-10-09T04:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? [/QUOTE] Yep. The Houston Chronicle. Ask your parakeet to let you read the comic section. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/17 "2006-10-09T04:28:38Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] What I don’t understand is why the full strip is not running at the Doonesbury website. [/QUOTE] I’m guessing that the strip is not being published by many newspapers not because it’s contraverial (its not really) but because its basically a plug. Presumably newspapers don’t want to advertise for free for a alternative source of news for thier readers. Doonesbury’s website is hosted by Slate, the online news magazine thingy, so presumably same deal there. > [@Clothahump](#): > > Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? I’ve never seen a US daily paper that _doesn’t_ publish it. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/18 "2006-10-09T04:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? [/QUOTE] :smack: Let’s pretends this question was asked in all innocence, shall we? According to the [Universal Press Syndicate](http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/newsrelease/?view=246), Doonesbury “appears in more than 1,500 daily and Sunday newspapers worldwide.” In addition, a quick persual of [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) reveals a couple dozen book collections of the strip are in print. In short, Doonesbury is one of the most popular, long-lived, and successful cartoon strips published today. (It is also the only strip I take time to read on a daily basis.) Your question has been answered. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/19 "2006-10-09T04:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > “Doonesbury” appears in about 1,400 newspapers via Universal Press Syndicate. [Cite.](http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003187180) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703/20 "2006-10-09T07:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] Doonesbury is still being published anywhere? [/QUOTE] You a Mallard fan? There must be at least one in the country. Somewhere… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-todays-doonesberry/375703.md?page=2)