newspapers.com has been adding papers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal and with that, an interesting tidbit concerning Doonesbury.

The newspaper first ran Doonesbury on January 25, 1971 (three months after it's syndication launch) and ran until Garry Trudeau began his first sabbatical in January 1983. Then, when Doonesbury returned in October 1984, the Commercial Appeal ran the
strip but not at the specific length that Trudeau requested (at least 44 picas; the Memphis paper was running it in 37 picas). Anyway, not complying with Trudeau's specific request led to the Commercial Appeal dropping Doonesbury in December 1984. It
remained absent through at least July 15, 1986 but looking at papers from 2021, Doonesbury did return at some point (they're carrying the Daily reruns and the new Sunday strips).

Can anybody in Memphis remember when Doonesbury got reinstated by the Memphis Commercial Appeal?

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On Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 8:04:02 AM UTC-5, jdelac...@gmail.com wrote:

newspapers.com has been adding papers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal and with that, an interesting tidbit concerning Doonesbury.

The newspaper first ran Doonesbury on January 25, 1971 (three months after it's syndication launch) and ran until Garry Trudeau began his first sabbatical in January 1983. Then, when Doonesbury returned in October 1984, the Commercial Appeal ran the

strip but not at the specific length that Trudeau requested (at least 44 picas; the Memphis paper was running it in 37 picas). Anyway, not complying with Trudeau's specific request led to the Commercial Appeal dropping Doonesbury in December 1984. It
remained absent through at least July 15, 1986 but looking at papers from 2021, Doonesbury did return at some point (they're carrying the Daily reruns and the new Sunday strips).

Can anybody in Memphis remember when Doonesbury got reinstated by the Memphis Commercial Appeal?

And here was the article from the Commercial Appeal announcing their decision to drop Doonesbury in 1984.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88496410/the-commercial-appeal/

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If I don't reply to this jdelac...@gmail.com post, the terroists
win.

newspapers.com has been adding papers from the Memphis
Commercial Appeal and with that, an interesting tidbit
concerning Doonesbury.

The newspaper first ran Doonesbury on January 25, 1971 (three
months after it's syndication launch) and ran until Garry
Trudeau began his first sabbatical in January 1983. Then, when
Doonesbury returned in October 1984, the Commercial Appeal ran
the strip but not at the specific length that Trudeau
requested (at least 44 picas; the Memphis paper was running it
in 37 picas). Anyway, not complying with Trudeau's specific
request led to the Commercial Appeal dropping Doonesbury in
December 1984. It remained absent through at least July 15,
1986 but looking at papers from 2021, Doonesbury did return at
some point (they're carrying the Daily reruns and the new
Sunday strips).

Can anybody in Memphis remember when Doonesbury got reinstated
by the Memphis Commercial Appeal?

I know they moved it to the classifieds some time in the 1990s.
Other than that, couldnt say.

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I know they moved it to the classifieds some time in the 1990s.
Other than that, couldnt say.

As it turned out, it was actually August 8, 1988 (Doonesbury returned to the Sunday paper on August 7, 1988). Here was the clip announcing Doonesbury's return.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88827977/the-commercial-appeal/

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