Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 09, 1989
Transcript:
Roland: Peter, not all the authors panned here today received death threats. Lesser sentences ranged from the removal of a hand to a slap on the wrist. Among the notables, Jeffrey Archer has been condemned to lose an ear, Erich Segal is sentenced to a beating, and Jackie Collins will receive 50 lashes of the whip. Responses have varied. Both Segal and Archer have reportedly hired bodyguards and gone into hiding...Ms. Collins, on the other hand, is said to be looking forward to her sentence.