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The Boondocks

''The paper feels that heavy-duty politics doesn't belong in the funny pages and when the strip returns to a milder line, we'll reinstitute it,'' says Daily News spokesman Ken Frydman. The News is, however, continuing to run Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, which has also dealt with the aftermath of Sept. 11 (the strip's current plotline has Mike on a plane, terrified, sitting next to an Arab-American passenger). Trudeau, however, self-censored his strips the week of Sept. 17, pulling material that mocked the Bush administration. In a statement, Trudeau called his own squelched strips ''clearly unsuitable for publication during a time of national crisis.''

McGruder warns that his comic strip won't soon return to apolitical fare. ''I could talk about Puffy, but nobody cares about Puffy. The whole world has changed and you can't remove the impact of this incident from any aspect of life,'' he says. ''So when I'm asked 'Well, how long are you going to talk about this?' it's like being asked 'How long are you going to talk about the world?'''

Originally posted Oct 17, 2001

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