Credits
Writer(s):
G. B. Trudeau [Garry Trudeau]
Penciller(s):
G. B. Trudeau [Garry Trudeau]
Inker(s):
G. B. Trudeau ?
Subject Matter
Genres:
humorous
Feature(s):
Doonesbury
Character(s):
Mike Doonesbury; B.D.; Mark; Zonker; J.J.; Joanie; Honey; Uncle Duke; King; Robert Kincaid; Mr. Butts; Mother Doonesbury
First Line:
So, Jeremy dear, what is it you HAD to tell me?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
90
Notes:
Compilation of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips. Notable story arcs include: medical marijuana; Duke fakes his death; Joanie works for Clinton; Mike's summer daydream; the family farm is flooded; The Washed-Out Bridges of Madison County (a special literary adaptation); King desegregates the campus; Mark realizes he's gay.
Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Carlton’s association with Trudeau began in the early 1970s, and his responsibilities grew to include lettering of the strip. The association endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31).
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References:
Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Inside Doonesbury’s Brain.” Newsweek. October 15, 1990. Quoted in Brian Walker, Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.