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Sat 14 Jun, 2008 04:57 am
Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau has announced that he will be taking a 12-week vacation from his strip but will resume before the Democratic and Republican conventions and general election. This break begins Sunday, March 23, 2008 through June 16, 2008.
Joe(Our long National nightmare is over.)Nation
Never ever cared for Doonesbury. When it was topical, it was frequently unfunny, when it was funny, it was often pointless. I know Im a minority, but Ive always said that "I dont get what everybody else is getting"
I always like Opus and the gang. Course I never got the "genius" of MArk Rothko either.
Doonesbury is my all-time favorite comic strip. I read it before it was syndicated nationally. In the early seventies, our college paper published the strips Trudeau was doing when he himself was an undergraduate at Yale.
(for me, Doonesbury chronicles my own generation)
God, youre older than me????
I figured that out a long time ago, farmerman. I am 54.
Whwe, Imstill older than you, Im 58, so there "grasshopper"
Ah.
On Monday a bit of temporal balance will be restored to my corner of chaos.
Duke bores me, but I'm tenderly amused by the rest of the gang.
By the by, I'm older than both of you--and that's without counting reincarnations.
I actually stopped reading it before the vacation (and had been reading it steadily until then) because the pro-Hillary/ anti-Obama bias was getting to be a bit much.
I think the Iraq vet stuff he was doing was good, though.
One year, I read the strip faithfully. Next year, I couldn't be bothered.
(Still waiting for Calvin and Hobbs)
I like it.
And, when it's not in The Guardian, the nation gets very upset.
But it usually is.
We've been having repeats lately, so we can still get our fix, but it's not the same obviously.
I would love to see the return of Opus and the gang of DaDaists of the meadow.
And Calvin too.
Joe(and Pogo... I'm 61)Nation
farmerman wrote:Never ever cared for Doonesbury. When it was topical, it was frequently unfunny, when it was funny, it was often pointless.
I pretty much feel the same way.
There's always this vague feeling of angst about the entire strip. No one is ever truly happy.
Joe Nation wrote:I would love to see the return of Opus and the gang of DaDaists of the meadow.
And Calvin too.
Joe(and Pogo... I'm 61)Nation
New adventures of Opus can be found here, joe.
http://www.comics.com/wash/opus/index.html
Chai wrote:farmerman wrote:Never ever cared for Doonesbury. When it was topical, it was frequently unfunny, when it was funny, it was often pointless.
I pretty much feel the same way.
There's always this vague feeling of angst about the entire strip. No one is ever truly happy.
So it mirrors life pretty well, then?
:wink:
It would be a little difficult to do comedy, especially political comedy, with a cast of happy characters.
Joe(I like all of their earnestness.)Nation
Yea!
A day early!!
Joe(and not a word about the election)Nation
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