Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 09, 2012

Enjoy it while it lasts, Jeff.

The taller the pedestal, the bigger the splat! Trust me, this one is going down – BIG

I am actually on Jeff’s side here. My dad was always dismissive about my writing – said it was “frivolous”. Pity that he didn’t live long enough to see either of my books published. Though I never got any cheques like Jeff’s to show either.

The father son rivalry goes up another notch.

Man, my memory is going. I thought Rick’s hair was reddish (or graying), not brown.

This is wrong on so many levels.

Is he going to pay his “fair share” of taxes on it?

Taxes – what’s 15% of OMG?

He may have already blown all of it on that mansion he was looking at earlier.

True ( sigh ).

It would be interesting to see how many of the 50- or 100-year-old books that we now see as classics and masterpieces were also best-sellers at the time they were written.The Market, she be a poor judge of literary merit…

I wonder if GBT is pointing out the contrast between Rick’s integrity vs. Woodruff’s sellout.

Poor Jeff. You hope your children will succeed and then pray they will be gracious about it.

how sharper than a serpent’s tooth…..

Jeff has been waiting a long time for this one.

I prefer story lines that evoke comments containing clichéd leftist piety.

However, I also have a perversion for the nausea inducing commentsof the socially awkward, sheltered, mouth breathers who feel compelled to comment on the lighter story lines.

Maybe Rick will find Becca in the sauna—-the equivalent of meeting a bespectacled lobster in the hot tub.

gmartin is right: Trudeau is using Jeff to mock his own publishing success. GBT seems to envy Jeff’s limitless future, just as Rick envies his son’s younger—-if mindless—-generation.

These are an old man’s fantasies, like the redheads that turn up in Leo’s story-line as well as Jeff’s and Mike’s (remember the cashier for whom Mike and Sid were invisible?). GBT uses them to exorcise a pornographic fantasy.

Still counting the zeroes as we speak.

Melissa ha more character and pride than that.

I wonder when Overkill’s lawyer will show up with a claim for $50M.

As Rupert Murdoch likes to say, “Crap sells.”