FAIRWAY, Kan. -- The 'Doonesbury' comic strip, which Garry Trudeau will suspend Jan. 2, brought homosexuality, drugs, abortion and stinging political commentary to the comics section.
Because of the controversial subject matter, 'Doonesbury' strips occasionally were pulled by subscriber newspapers.
Some newspapers run the strip only on their editorial pages.
Among the most controversial highlights of 'Doonesbury's' history:
-Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, the local campus radical, gleefully declaring John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's attorney general, was 'guilty, guilty, guilty' even before the Senate had begun its Watergate investigation.
-Introduction of Andy, a male homosexual character.
-A scene depicting characters Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern in bed together. They were not married until five years later.
-A strip containing a mail-in coupon in which it was implied that House Speaker Tip O'Neill was involved in the Korean scandal. Ten mail bags of coupons arrived at the speaker's office before the post office was alerted to stop delivery, a spokesman for Universal Press said.
-A two-week sequence that suggested California Gov. Jerry Brown had solicited and received a campaign contribution from an organized crime figure.
-A week of strips satirizing Sen. John Warner so enraging Virginia Republicans that the GOP Caucus of the Virginia General Assembly passed a motion of censure condemning Trudeau.
-A weeklong 'tour' of Ronald Reagan's brain on the eve of the 1980 election
