Doonesbury comic strip

[Scott_in_WVA]

Does anyone appreciate this comic strip? I have a hard time with it myself.Especially the one in this Sundays paper.
No class!!!!!!!!

 

[Hank]

<font color=blue>Does anyone appreciate this comic strip?</font color=blue>

About the only strip that makes any sense to me anymore is Dilbert.

Haven't seen too many recent Doonesbury's, but it was right on back in the 60's and 70's when it first came out, when many of the characters were based on real-life people, such as Calvin Hill and Hunter Thompson (Uncle Duke).

 

[RoyJackson]

I always liked Uncle Duke..my role model!!!

Doonebury needs some solid political turmoil to satirize. Unfortunately, not a heck of a lot of that going on right now. The strip is kind of aimless....looking for a theme.

Well, at this point in my life..I'm living in a Dilbert world, so that is my favorite cartoon strip.

 

[Hank]

<font color=blue>I always liked Uncle Duke..my role model!!!</font color=blue>

What was the phrase he always used....before entering an unkonwn room he liked to "soften it up" a bit?/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[RobS]

I'm an avid fan of the comics but I stopped reading Doonesbury a couple of years ago. Good to hear I'm not the only one disappointed with it.

Yeah, give me Dilbert, Foxtrot, Arlo & Janis, For Better or For Worse. Even Blondie still gives me a chuckle /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[cstocks]

I don't read it and haven't in several years. I'd rather read Mallard Fillmore, which pokes fun at liberals and political correctness...

 

[Wingnut]

I was a loyal fan for great many years ... even have 4 hardcover collection books.
But ... due to the sharp turn to the extreme left and the distasteful bent of the strip since the middle of the Clinton empire, I completely stopped reading it.
My wife sometimes despairs of my attitude, but I made a firm decision years ago that one must stand up for their beliefs and I try to. I no long read Doonesbury, no longer watch Tom Hanks, ignore Streisand and Fonda, despise Baldwin, don't watch any organized sports. I haven't yet got to the point of writing letters telling the studios why I don't watch movies with certain stars (and do watch movies with other certain stars) .... but that'll come next - when I retire and have enough time. Like I keep telling my wife, everyone has the right to have a political conviction ... and if they rub them in my face ... I have the right to use my political conviction to pretend they no longer exist ... and ensure they get NO support from me.

 

[Wingnut]

<font color=blue>I'm living in a Dilbert world, </font color=blue>

wish I was ..... that'd be better than working in a Dilbert world, as I do! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

It's my favorite strip too!

 

[MossRoad]

Yes. I like it. He spares none. I particularly enjoyed it during the Clinton administration. My favorite storyline right now is Mike's daughter ticketing SUV owners.

 

[Chuck52]

A friend actually got one of those tickets on her Explorer. She was not amused.

Doonesbury does a reasonably good job of explaining the Bush Whitehouse, especially with GW's talking non-head.

Chuck