Cartoonist Garry Trudeau said he would never have drawn the image of Muhammad, but his DOONESBURY strip has met its share of controversy.
The panels are so volatile that half a dozen editors regularly run the strip on the editorial page. Sometimes they don't run it at all. The Los Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of...
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