Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 03, 2010

Zonker’s due for a promotion! Or possibly a job offer from BP!

Zonker has a future with BP.

Of carp Zonker has. No flounder-ing about it.

He said it with porpoise, not just for the halibut.

Yes, Zonker sold out to The Man after resisting for so long. In the end, it was fast food that did him in.

He’s been telling fish stories.

Zonk was belugared by all the groupers of codstomers that narwhanted some tasty moraysels of–oh, forget it.

I was just going to say that,

Zonker’s working for scale.

In 1973, when Duke was involved in his first storyline, he was appointed the Gov. of American Samoa. He asked his nephew Zonker to be his Lieutenant Gov. (he quit after finally achieving the perfect tan) . Maybe Z. is going to work for his uncle Duke again.

This whole turn of events is sharking – no skating around it. (Okay, don’t let out a whale; I’ll clam up.)

Is Zonk, Duke’s love child?!?!?!

People see a beach with oil on it in the Florida panhandle on the news and automatically assume that the entire state is covered. Every long distant call I make asks me about oil on the beaches in south Florida, of which there is none. We’re finally running commercials for tourists, the new motto is “The coast is clear!”

Sounds like Zonk’s coming to terms with his first step toward functionality. What’s the next step, Wall Street? Trudeau may have let the genie out.

If you like fish puns, you’ll probably like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI

on chef Zonker’s BP menu today, Blackened Prawns

I’m sharked! sharked! that PUNS are going on in here.

Your clams sir.

Tank you!

Oh boy. Somebody posted a vegan link. Tarred seaweed, anyone?

Zonker is one of the few “Doonsbury” characters to have made it in real life. There is a walkway to a beach in California named after him because of his efforts to allow access to the beach for non-milionaires -the Zonker Harris Walkway. I find him the most lovable character in the series - much more so than his shallow nephew Zipper.

Where the heck is Puddleglum when we need him???

Poor Zonker…

He’s afraid. He’s very afraid…that he’s found his true calling. And it makes him want to say, “Oh, carp!”

@Hugh No bets, here. Looks like a shoo-in for, what, Special Assistant Under-secretary for Petroleum Industry Public Relations?

(I know I should have made a clever acronym for this, but I’m sorta pressed for time)