‘Cathy’s’ Suspension

Re “Politics in Comic Strips: It’s No Funny Business to Many” by Beverly Beyette (Nov. 2): I am surprised and disappointed that The Times would choose to delete three “Cathy” comic strips. I view it as a slap in the face to women and to women’s issues and an attack on Cathy Guisewite’s First Amendment right of freedom of speech.

Why is it viewed by you as threatening for a comic strip character to endorse a candidate or political philosophy?

ELIZABETH ANN COWAN

Costa Mesa

View received 86 letters disapproving of The Times’ decision to withhold three “Cathy” comic strips and seven supporting the decision. About 500 readers also telephoned, mostly to protest the decision.