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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 03, 2012
Transcript:
Alex: This is crazy! How did he do it? Hey, Dad, could you come here? Mike: Are you sure? It costs more money to render me. Alex: Yeah, yeah, I need you. Mike: Okay, what's up? Alex: Poppy, how'd you produce the strip on such a tiny budget? Have any tricks? Mike: Well, sometimes, I'd drop out the background art... Alex: Really? Doesn't that make us look cheap?
BE THIS GUY over 12 years ago
I knew something was missing!
Linguist over 12 years ago
Hints from the ole Master.
King_Shark over 12 years ago
Or go the route I use for my strip â zero budget. Looks grainy though :|
DylanThomas3.14159 over 12 years ago
The value of Doonesbury has never been in the art, but in the skewering political commentary. One line of evidence: the reich-wingers who sometimes squawk on this website, hiding their pain with bravado.
The Nihilist over 12 years ago
End this alreadyâŠ
DylanThomas3.14159 over 12 years ago
âGrifterâ today is yesterdayâs âcon manâ. âGestaltâ is a German word with psychological connotations, meaning roughly âwholisticâ, referring to therapy for the âwhole personâ. In my opinion George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice are two grifters of historic proportions. I donât see that Trudeau treats âgriftersâ wholistically. I donât think he cares about such constraints. He doesnât have to care. He just unsheathes his rapier.
billydub over 12 years ago
One week of this fourth wall routine is quite sufficient, GaryâŠ
King_Shark over 12 years ago
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy PiâŠwhen did you get back? Missed you, man.
randymi over 12 years ago
Alright, GTâs gonna continue this. Iâm gone.
dianetcabbie over 12 years ago
Wake up, Michael! Summer Daydream almost over! Please, please, please!!!
mcmc over 12 years ago
âwholisticâ is not a word.
magicwalnut over 12 years ago
Somebody wake me when this is overâŠ.or maybe itâs a ploy to get the righties to go away?
babka Premium Member over 12 years ago
love this. & the crack about how expensive it is to ârenderââŠ
babka Premium Member over 12 years ago
Quite the double meaning.
Beleck3 over 12 years ago
con men. that is America, getting over, lol the American way. ask the native indians about getting over. lol, the slaves, the poor, the rest of the world. lol.
getting rid of the background, lol. great symbolism.
Cofyjunky over 12 years ago
So thatâs one of the practical reasons for dropping Jeff! Heâs not only a douche, his McMansion costs too much to add.
Yuseff over 12 years ago
I liked the Jimmy Crow arc. Where is he?
Gokie5 over 12 years ago
Re: Todayâs strip: reality intrudes.
peabodyboy over 12 years ago
So that would make Jerry Seinfeld the patron saint of nihilism.
Rickapolis over 12 years ago
Next week heâll be back to the presidential race.
Farley55 over 12 years ago
Now we know what the sound of âone hand clappingâ is. Hopefully Trudeau will quit when he needs glasses.
blackdawne over 12 years ago
Just do what the Benders do, recycle backdrops.
DylanThomas3.14159 over 12 years ago
Just woke up. Sorry about my intemperate posts of last night before I collapsed abed. (I have GBS which punches me out with fatigue and pain the later it gets after a nightâs sleep.) Not sorry enough to remove the posts, though. Just sorrier about some of the terminology, like âriech-wingersâ, than the content. Which I still hold true. (Maybe I should have said, ârich-wingersâ? Dunno. Or just Homerâs âDuhâ, maybe?) ÏHi, babygirl Susan! Good 2CURN the mix still.ÏLove the handle âTimeweaverâ. Reminds of olâ Pete Seegerâs âDreamweaverâ theme song. Is that mighty lover of all decency and hater of all âme firsterâ supply-siderism still sniffinâ the roses rather than pushinâ âem up? ÏGood post, Beleck3. Insightful.ÏThanks for the shout-outs, Tacopielvr, MiepR, KingShark, and Gokie5. Goodbye, Randywriter; come back anytime!
Potrzebie over 12 years ago
Wait until she seeâs the room with stock backgrounds or the burnt-down mail silo! I wonder if they ever solved whom burnt it down?
nimbleswitch over 12 years ago
Somebody let me know when Alex goes away.
eadn over 12 years ago
The question becomes is this a new âbeginningâ or just a take on running a business you didnât do?
fritzoid Premium Member over 12 years ago
^ I think âC.R.â is âCondoleeza Riceâ (supported by âcondidateâ)âŠ
SClark55 over 12 years ago
Drop the background art?! Sounds like Garryâs ready for partial retirement.
murkrat over 12 years ago
@DylanThomas3,12159 & @MiepRThe âValue of Doonesburyâ is deeper than just economic, political and social commentary
murkrat over 12 years ago
@mcmcwholistic is an alternative spelling of holistic
Spade Jr. over 12 years ago
He was ready a long time ago.
The Nihilist over 12 years ago
Nihilism a philosophy that holds that there is no objective basis for moral truths, and therefore traditional values are meaningless.