Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 16, 2015

Try to understand, Mike; she’s an ARTISTE!

Incompatible from the get-go…

I remember reading that Garry’s wife realised that this was a doomed marriage before he did.

Only an hour to comment on careerism? No wonder her art finds no buyers.

How old are these strips?

Looks like he wears his glasses to bed..Also, change of drawer pulls in his nightstand.

Art is never finished, you just have to stop at some point.

My daughter is an artist so it sounds familiar even now.

This felt like the beginning of the end.

I don’t think artists ever feel that their work is finished. They seem very critical about their own work, like it could be better if only….

Why does Mike wear his glasses in bed?

The sad part is that, unlike the usual run of Pretentious Con Artists who blather on like this, she really Believes it..

my memory is failing me. Is J.J. the young Joanie? wasn’t he married to Joanie? Isn’t he now married to someone else? Oh My! The years are telling!

Mike was married to Joanie Junior (JJ) and they produced Alex..Joanie Caucus (JJ’s Mother) married journalist Rick Redfern and they produced Jeff..After JJ left him, Mike married Kim Rosenthal, a Jewish-raised Vietnamese orphan (the “last orphan out of Vietnam”) geek who dropped out of a program towards a Doctorate in Computer Science at MIT because it was “too easy”. .They are an Interesting Family.