I love 'Doonesbury' but I rarely buy a paper or visit the website. So I've whipped up an RSS file that will link to the past week's strips. Feel free to use it.
If the site doesn't have a strip for a particular day then you'll get broken links — the file doesn't do anything clever like check the strips are available, but simply creates a new link each day. It would be possible to include <img…> tags displaying the strips themselves in news readers, but mass-grabbing the images seems a bit unfair on Doonesbury.com.
UPDATE: I forgot to update this when, some time ago, I came across an alternative RSS feed. This one includes the strips themselves, rather than just links to them. (6 August 2007)
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Justin Mason at 23 Jul 2004, 6:15pm. Permalink
FWIW, I've also come up with a bookmarklet that links directly to the latest strip; it's available on http://taint.org/2004/07/21/081242a.html .
Dave at 2 Apr 2006, 12:12am. Permalink
Yay! It even still works, nearly two years later. Ta, Phil!
mahsing at 3 Sep 2006, 1:19am. Permalink
The rss file isn't working….
try this
http://www.newsiness.com/comics/doonesbury.php
Good Luck
Phil Gyford at 4 Sep 2006, 7:21am. Permalink
My RSS file is working Mahsing.
mahsing at 10 Sep 2006, 12:56am. Permalink
Phil,
Can you please update your RSS file to show the doonesbury comic strips instead of showing the links only? You can refer to the link i posted….:)
Phil Gyford at 11 Sep 2006, 7:22am. Permalink
No I can't — someone else used to do an RSS file that included the images but that was shut down by the copyright holders. Newsiness has presumably paid for the rights to use the images, and you or anyone else is perfectly free to use their feed rather than mine (which I created because there were no alternatives at the time).
Dan at 22 Nov 2006, 4:38am. Permalink
In order to view the view the comic in your RSS you have to edit your settings to allow the feed to download the whole page instead of just the link. Hope that helps.
Adam at 6 Aug 2007, 8:57pm. Permalink
August 2007 - I just found this and it works great! Thanks.