Doonesbury' Strip Shows Head on Platter

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040514/ap_on_en_ot/iraq_war_doonesbury_1

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The distributor of "Doonesbury" called it an "unfortunate coincidence" that a strip depicting a man's head on a platter will run in newspapers Sunday — days after the release of a videotape showing an American's beheading by Iraqi militants.

Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate said Friday the strip was drawn before Nicholas Berg's death in Iraq; it will offer a substitute comic strip.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning strip by Garry Trudeau appears in 1,400 newspapers.

"I regret the poor timing, and apologize to anyone who is offended by an image that is now clearly inappropriate," Trudeau said.

Several newspapers said the distributor's warning came too late.

"We may write some sort of letter to our readers the day the strip runs explaining that fact that we didn't receive notice until after the comic was printed and ready to go," said Andrea Buck, interim editor of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune.

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[DenverDem]

1. Sweet!

Gary Trudeau is divinely inspired and blessed with precognition.

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2. Wow! What a coincidence. 'Ya gotta know the freepers won't buy it!!

[blackcat77]

3. Trudeau is a class act

It's good that he's offering a substitute strip.