Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 03, 2012
August 02, 2012
August 04, 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?
“Grifter” today is yesterday’s “con man”. “Gestalt” is a German word with psychological connotations, meaning roughly “wholistic”, referring to therapy for the “whole person”. In my opinion George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice are two grifters of historic proportions. I don’t see that Trudeau treats “grifters” wholistically. I don’t think he cares about such constraints. He doesn’t have to care. He just unsheathes his rapier.