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Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed over the decades from a college student to a youthful senior citizen.
Bull Tales: A Yale Comic Strip Reprints the original college newspaper strips, published originally before the series was syndicated. Michael J. Volume Two of Bull Tales collection, published by Yale humor magazine The Yale Record in 1970. Doonesbury: The Original Yale Cartoons, American Heritage Press, 1971. Paperback: Andrews McMeel, 1973.
Today Doonesbury is syndicated to 1,000 daily and Sunday newspapers worldwide and is accessible online in association with The Washington Post. In 1975, Trudeau became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer, [9] traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists.
The comic strip Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau, features an extensive cast of characters with complex interpersonal relationships; as of 2018, the strip's official website lists twenty-four primary characters, with dozens more having been featured over the years, including some who were phased out of the strip only to be reintroduced years later.
Uncle Duke is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau.He is nominally Zonker Harris's uncle, albeit an "uncle by courtesy" only.Duke appeared in the strip July 1974 [1] and was originally a straightforward caricature of the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson (see Raoul Duke), but eventually took on a life of his own and a succession of ill-fated ventures in the ...
Lacey Davenport is a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. She is often said to be based on Millicent Fenwick, a Republican member of Congress from New Jersey, although Trudeau has denied this link. [1] She and Dick Davenport, her husband, were first introduced as attendees at a Walden College Alumni Reunion in 1974.
One of Mark's most famous appearances was on the May 29, 1973, strip published during the Watergate scandal, in which Mark proclaimed that Attorney General John N. Mitchell was "Guilty! Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!!" [3] Mark later did the same to describe Ronald Reagan, John Poindexter, and Oliver North in a strip written during the Iran–Contra ...
Ron Headrest is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury.. During the 1980s, Garry Trudeau thought it would be fun to do a political parody of the television program Max Headroom (of which he was a fan).