As I noted in an earlier diary, here in Chicago, Trib readers have been getting more and more political commentary in the funnies. I only read the funnies (and sports in baseball season) since I can get all the important actual news here on Kos.
Last time I diaried, the reasonably new conservative strip Prickly City had gotten censored for "failing to meet standards of fairness." Today it's Boondocks turn. I think McGruder would be disappointed if he didn't get this kind of attention a couple of times a year.
The line in the paper is "Today's original Boondocks strip presents inaccurate information as fact. Please enjoy this substitution."
Here's the offending strip (same link as above):
http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/.
Of course, it made me laugh out loud. Aaron McGruder often hits 'em right on the head. OTOH, I didn't think the Prickly City strip was really over the line either.
I wanted to re-link Prickly for comparison, but you have to register with mycomics.com to get strips from 2/7/2005. So this link probably won't work for you. I'd save it and put it someplace more visible, but is it a copyright violation? Or perhaps this is research on truth and censorship on the funny pages?
So, the censors on the funny page are still hard at work at the Trib. The pages definitely have a leftward slant overall with Boondocks, Doonesbury, Non-Sequitur and Candorville (last 2 are more recent additions) making no bones about pushing left vs. just Prickly City on the right. I hear there's another hard right strip, Mallard Fillmore that I think I've seen elsewhere and am glad we don't get here.
In fact, I have some vague optimism about Prickly City. They spent the week of 2/14/05 talking about the fact that it's wrong to pay the media to parrot the administration's lines (another possibly registration req link). I'd be thrilled to see the RW comedic media start to notice the White House hypocrisy even occasionally.
We'll always have better representation in the funnies. Humor is the domain of the left, because much good humor requires getting people to think. The right is mostly limited to insult-driven comedy, because it can rely hate.