First Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 26, 1970

the first published strip included 3-way parallelism as the set-up

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the beginning of a beautiful relationship

Following are character tags added to Doonesbury strips from the beginning to

1 / 22 / 72

and 7 / 1 / 07 - 8 / 3 / 08

and 9 / 21 / 08

and 9 / 28 / 08

and 11 / 16 / 08

and 11 / 24 / 08 - 11 / 30 /08

and 1 / 19 / 09 – 1 / 24 / 09

and 9 / 28 / 09 - 4 / 1 / 11

excluding unposted / nonexistent Sunday strips ( Sundays before 3/21/71 and 4/18-6/6/71). I usually put character and other tags with the subject’s first appearance in a story or “theme week” ; for other related strips check the strips preceding and following the tagged ones.

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The first strip…my sophomore year of college 1970..Heavy Sigh….reminds me so much of my roommate…… Thanks for the memories

Is this a rerun?

;-)

=)

Great!

So pleased to offer my immense appreciation.

That football guy’s a jerk

I had forgotten how crudely drawn the early years were. Yet they were some of his best work. Liberal yet still funny. Last 10 years it’s been liberal but NOT funny.

WOW, amazing to see how the strip began… so crude the drawings, so farce the humor. Amazing how it all begins liberal, stays liberal, but gets less funny but more artistic.

wha… what the heck are you saying, and how long did it take you to type all that?

Add to Minor Named Characters:Mister ButtsMister JayRon Headrest

Mike really changed a lot in looks and concept from these early strips to later on…

The strip that started in all in October 1970, then rerun in March 2014 when classic daily strip rerun mode started mixed in with first run Sunday Doonesbury strips.

Doonesbury is being sarcastic!

I like butterscotch

Doonesbury looks so different from now. My favorite character is mike

mca: major character appearence

mca: b.d., mike

In 1979 there were still bugs in the roommate assignment program.

Nothing beats a blast from the past

I’m 15 days older than this strip… yikes!

And so it begins…

The missing Sunday strips from 1971 have been found,you can see them here: http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/07/18/the-missing-doonesbury-sundays-no-longer-lost/

Whatever that paper does, I just hope they DON’T hire Steve Benson!!!

Mike and Kim have been married 30 years.

Much longer than many real-life couples.

I’ve been along for the entire trip, still have my brittle Doonesbury paperbacks from back then.