More Garfield please--it's cheaper than a lobotomy.

Salon's Fix and Romenesko, among others, are noting the story in E&P about Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks getting pulled this week by major newspapers, including the cravenly Washington Post.

McGruder's pointed, angry satire is one of the last such voices on the comics page and one of the few reasons The Malcontent has to read the comics. Sure, he'll offend people, but he'll also make them think. And which is more offensive: savage parody, or silencing the voice of one of the few African-American cartoonists in the country with national syndication (even for just a week)?

Note to the editors of the papers: Get stuffed. Insipid dreck like Garfield, Family Circus and the like overrun the comics page. You should be ashamed of these puke factories.

The banned strips are available on uComics.