This is an interesting factoid I heard today and it turned out to be true: The artist of the Popeye comic was fired after he made a comic that included a reference to abortion. Does anyone know where I could find a scan of the comic online?

McGruff

I've been unable to find the comic itself online. This second link is an interview with Bobby London about the comic in question. "During the late 1980s and early '90s, the Thimble Theatre/Popeye comic strip was written and drawn by Bobby London, who in his earlier, "underground" days, had created Merton of the Movement and Dirty Duck — the latter of which found a mainstream outlet in National Lampoon and is still running in Playboy. His stint came to an abrupt end with a sequence about a doll, which he used as a metaphor for abortion. Tho readers gave little or no evidence of serious objection, the syndicate, whose licensing department wasn't happy about London's contemporary approach to the strip, gave that as its reason for firing him." http://www.toonopedia.com/popeye.htm http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/london.htm Jul 14 03, 10:54 AM