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Editor Greg Moore says he’s heard “zip” about “Doonesbury” and the other strips that were cut, including the weekday ‘Peanuts,’ ‘Non Sequitur, Overboard,’ ‘Rhymes with Orange’ and others. (Managing editor/administration Jeanette Chavez got one complaint about the missing “Doonesbury.”) “There’s no mystery why the strips are bidding farewell, print-wise,” writes Michael Roberts. “Last week, [editor Moore] confirmed a 4 percent budget cut and shrinkage to the feature section, where the comics appear, as well as the sports section.”
Denver Business Journal new media editor Mark Harden reacts to the news:
I’m sure the Post is armed with a sheaf of readership data that told its editors that, for example, Beetle Bailey – about a guy who’s been a private for 60 years in an Army that never seems to get deployed anywhere — was worth saving. But still, I was stunned Sunday when I went looking for Doonesbury in my Sunday Post and couldn’t find it – Doonesbury, arguably the most influential, most talked-about strip of the last generation.
> “I don’t think ‘Doonesbury’ will be a legacy strip,” says Trudeau (Nov. 2010)
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