Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 12, 2014

GT has announced he’s going BACK om hiatus for an indefinite period to work on his other project. This is the first of a long line of repeats.By the time he comes beck, the twins might be enrolled at Walden!

Doesn’t that also mean that Rick is about to become a great-grandfather? Step-kids count, y’know.

GT didn’t know he would have alpha house renewed until recently.

I have shevles of GT’s books ( that I have read more than twice) but I haven’t seen these – no complaints here….78^)

Age is just a number..Sometimes a VERY BIG NUMBER, but a numberAnd the time comes when you can’t even remember that numberSo all is well

Better’n curettage…

-I sent an email to his site, asking if he was true that his mother had passed away. I was told that it was true, and this is why the strip is in reruns right now.

I’ll take Garry’s humor however I can get it.

I’m fine. My mind is so shot from drink and drugs these repeats all look new to me. That girl is pregnant?

I think my younger brother may be a great-grandfather by now. (Don’t know for sure; we’re not close.)

I can understand Trudeau taking a break. We are living in the Golden Age of the Obama presidency. There is nothing to criticize about it.

Here. Now shut up about ‘work-shirk’ Garry !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~http://www.strunkfuneralhome.com/sitemaker/sites/Strunk1/obit.cgi?user=1221392MOOREAMORY

I’m still perversely fascinated by the troll phenomenon, the same way I might be by a mass murderer or a bad auto accident. I just can’t imagine what it’s like to go through life so fizzing with partisan rabies that I have to invest a cynical political spin in everything I see. I can’t believe that these folks lead otherwise happy, satisfying lives. As I learned in my few attempts to actually talk with Sarge in both his incarnations, the urge to troll and self-awareness seem to be inversely related, so I can’t just ask the troll. Is anyone aware of any serious looks into the psychology of trolling?

Posted at 12:07 PM ET, 02/11/2014 Feb 11, 2014 05:07 PM EST

TheWashingtonPost THIS JUST IN—Trudeau puts daily ‘Doonesbury’ on long-term hiatus to work on renewed ‘Alpha House’: ‘I’m ready for an extended break’By Michael Cavna E-mail the writer

AT THIS POINT in Garry Trudeau’s career, John Goodman has just proved to be more irresistible a roommate than Zonker.

Hello, daily call sheet; goodbye for now, daily comics page.

Trudeau, whose TV show “Alpha House” recently ended its debut season with strong viewership, got the good news: Amazon Studios has picked up his politically satiric program for a second season, the cartoonist and his syndicate are set to announce later this afternoon. That’s right: Fans will get to see more of Goodman and the gang portray four Republican senators who banter and bicker as Hill roomies.

But providing punch lines for Trudeau’s newest characters comes at a cost: As of Feb. 24, the daily “Doonesbury” — Trudeau’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip — will be put on long-term and open-ended hiatus, distributor Universal Uclick will announce.

Trudeau will continue to create new Sunday “Doonesbury” strips; the rest of the week, readers will get reruns dating back to the feature’s syndication launch in 1970. More than 13,000 potential “Flashback” strips, Universal Uclick notes, haven’t been seen in a newspaper since their initial run.

“I’ve done the strip for 43 years — 45 if you include the college edition [at Yale] — and I’m ready for an extended break,” Trudeau, 65, tells Comic Riffs.

In making the move, the New York-based cartoonist takes nothing for granted: “A hiatus comes with uncertainty, of course: I can’t assume I’ll be welcomed back a year or two from now.”

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They don’t actually invest political spin in everything they see; they are quite adept in turning a blind eye to the nonsense from the right-wing noise machine.

I think it’s an unhappy fact of human nature that we’re less inclined to look with pleasure on what’s good about our lives than we are to look resentfully on what’s not so good. Overcoming that tendency is one of the keys to contentment.

And that’s not to say that we shouldn’t always strive to improve our lot, both individually and collectively. But perspective, people, perspective.

A facetious take on anyone who would criticize GT’s thinking that his mother’s death warranted time off. Not directed at you.

Here’s a short article about the hiatus:

http://www.boston.com/names/2014/02/11/garry-trudeau-will-suspend-daily-doonesbury-strip-focus-show/VbssyOr4yBbldRFvm3QA5L/story.html

so what ever did happen to Joanie’s first husband ? the father of JJ?

I think we all, or most of us, understood the situation as being in a theater with no fire.

Making Joanie a bitter old woman, huh. Very bitter.

David, she left him in the dust long ago. He must be in a home in Colorado or dead.

Rick’s expression was hilarious the first time; the “deer in the headlights” look is still funny, again.

I will wait as long as it takes, and I WILL welcome you back, Mr. T.

Your right to “freedom of speech” means the GOVERNMENT cannot suppress or punish your speech. GoComics and other posters are not the government.