Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 29, 2014

Missed TWICE with one shot!

Just in case they don’t rerun them, here are 2 I really liked:-www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/04/25

-www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/04/26

Zonk’ is IN the puddle sharing his hallucination with Mike. Did Mike know he was in the puddle?

Love seeing these strips from forty years ago…they sure take me back to my own college days. nostalgic sigh

I LOVE these old ones! Makes me feel as though I’m in my twenties again!

The art is already becoming more refined. Background elements appear regularly. Characters have legs. The linework is smoother. It starts to look more like the classic Doonesbury.

Talk about a wild imagination!

Ir’s analogous to that SpongeBob cartoon where SpongeBob and Patrick are having all kinds of fun in a cardboard box (much to Squidward’s chagrin).

You know, I actually remember these old ones!GT can work with Alpha House for a long time, he still has 40+ years of old ones to entertain us with.

The periscope is used to see things on top of the water. The trout is in the water where it would not be visible to the periscope. Z could, however, see Mike clearly. I think the trout was just an excuse to try to knock off Mike and get the strip renamed “Zonker”.

He already started moving things around and changing them, in the background.

Better art work. You can actually tell who is whom, now.

The moment when surrealism first cropped up in “Doonesbury” ! (Can talking plants and Mr. Butts be far behind? Well, Mr. Butts is far behind…..) Yesterday somebody was mentioning the age difference between Mike and Kim. I happen to be reading a collection where Kim was just the orphan baby. Her first word was “Big Mac” and most of her early words were from TV commercials. Odd to think that she later grew up to become one of the most intelligent (and probably best balanced) of all the characters!

Note the bottle of wine. Who is really hallucinating?

These old strips look awesome in color!

@GodfreydanielFirst moment of surrealism:-www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/01/18

I don’t know Night-Gaunt. I’ve known a few “wine-o’s” and they sure did see things that weren’t there LOL.

Love these, soon Mike and Mark will be off on their motorcycle and meet Joni.

@leftwingpatriotYou’re right, and I stand corrected!