Read more Gary Trudeau stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24879/gary-trudeau.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 24 May 2012 23:20:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/141557/trudeau-rips-papers-axing-doonesbury-abortion-strip.htmlMary Papenfuss<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=872135&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20120312075048' border='0' />The cartoonist's pen might be mightier than the sword, but Gary Trudeau's mouth is also packing a punch. He's blasting newspapers that are dumping Doonsebury this week because the strip attacks state abortion laws requiring transvaginal ultrasounds as rape. "I write the strip to be read, not removed," he said....More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Gary Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury."http://www.newser.com/story/141557/trudeau-rips-papers-axing-doonesbury-abortion-strip.htmlMon, 12 Mar 2012 01:27:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20484/political-cartoons-no-longer-front-and-center.htmlHarry Kimball<img src='http://img2-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=79695&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401021035' border='0' />Political cartoons remain, but they lost front page power and heft long ago, says U.S. News & World Report . Cartoonists like Thomas Nast could once sway elections—Ulysses S. Grant credited Nast's pencil to helping him win the presidency—but the ranks of full-time pen-and-paper satirists have thinned to...A cartoon by American cartoonist Ann Telnaes is seen during an exhibit for human rights backed by the United Nations in Rome, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)http://www.newser.com/story/20484/political-cartoons-no-longer-front-and-center.htmlSat, 01 Mar 2008 20:26:38 CST