[Professionals also have taken cracks at the topic. ] Cartoonists hit the mother lode with this one, … Giant bugs blend with images of doomsday cultists and visions of the apocalypse.

These are not good times for political cartoonists. And I think this controversy makes it worse, because editors are timid and they see their cartoonists as bomb-throwers who need to be reined in.

You’ll see that Saturday just about every strip will be about ‘Peanuts’ in one way or another,

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They’re doing different things. Some are little gags, some are moving, some are — what can I say? Everybody does it their own way.