Cartoonist Garry Trudeau to Give 'Doonesbury' the Boot

He says it's just to focus on his streaming "television" show for Amazon.com, "Apha House," but the article's tone suggests the end of an era.

At the Boston Globe.

Comics were an important part of culture, "but now it's streaming video," Garry Trudeau says http://t.co/kECZCHbLzN

— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) February 12, 2014

I used to read "Doonesbury" faithfully back in the day. I like this part at the piece:

Admired for staying on top of the zeitgeist, from Beltway politics and D.C. sex scandals to AIDS, same-sex marriage, disabled military vets, and pot growing, Trudeau has often courted controversy with “Doonesbury” and its sprawling cast of characters, some real, many more invented. Some newspapers have opted to move the strip from the comics page to the editorial page. Others have dropped it altogether, at least temporarily, owing to what editors deemed objectionable material. Readers often disagreed, and vociferously so.