Editing Doonesbury (section)

===1990s===
* In November 1991, a series of strips appeared to give credibility to a real-life prison inmate who falsely stated that former Vice President [[Dan Quayle]] had connections with drug dealers. The strip sequence was dropped by some two dozen newspapers, in part because the allegations had been investigated and dispelled previously.<ref name="kimberlin">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5D91F30F931A25752C1A967958260 |title=Two Dozen Newspapers Omit 'Doonesbury' Quayle Series |date=November 12, 1991 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205231303/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5D91F30F931A25752C1A967958260 |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-status=live}}</ref> Six years later, the reporter who broke the Quayle story, some weeks after the ''Doonesbury'' cartoons, later published a book saying he no longer believed the story had been true.<ref name="marro">{{cite magazine |last=Marro |first=Anthony |url=http://archives.cjr.org/year/97/2/books-con.asp |title=The Art of the Con |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002224659/http://archives.cjr.org/year/97/2/books-con.asp |archive-date=October 2, 2006 |magazine=Columbia Journalism Review |date=March–April 1997 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* In November 1993, a storyline dealing with California wildfires was dropped from several California newspapers, including the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Orange County Register]]'', and ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Astor |first=David |title=Major Southern California Dailies Drop 'Doonesbury{{'"}} |work=Editor & Publisher |date=November 13, 1993}}</ref>
* In June 1994, the Roman Catholic Church took issue with a series of strips dealing with the book ''[[Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe]]'' by [[John Boswell (historian)|John Boswell]]. A few newspapers dropped single strips from the series, and the Bloomington, Illinois, ''[[The Pantagraph|Pantagraph]]'' refused to run the entire series.
* In March 1995, [[John McCain]] denounced Trudeau on the floor of the Senate: "Suffice it to say that I hold Trudeau in utter contempt." This was in response to a strip about [[Bob Dole]]'s strategy of exploiting his war record during his [[1996 United States presidential election|presidential campaign]]. The quotation was used on the cover of Trudeau's book ''Doonesbury Nation''. McCain and Trudeau later made peace: McCain wrote the foreword to ''The Long Road Home'', Trudeau's collection of comic strips dealing with character B.D.'s leg amputation during the second Iraq war.
* In February 1998, a strip dealing with [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Lewinsky scandal|sex scandal]] was removed from the comics pages of a number of newspapers because it included the phrases "oral sex" and "semen-streaked dress".