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Created in "the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture," and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University. Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.

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  • Doonesbury
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  • Created in "the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture," and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University. Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.
  • In 1990, a major storyline involved Andy Lippincott, a recurring character introduced in the 1970s and one of the first explicitly gay human characters in a comic strip. Lipincott died from complications related to AIDS in the strip which ran on May 24, 1990, eight days after the death of Jim Henson. In the May 29th strip, Andy speaks at his own funeral via a pre-recorded video, announcing happily that he made it into Heaven, and "by the way, Jim Henson's here."
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  • Daily
Genre
  • Humor, politics, satire
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  • 1970-10-26(xsd:date)
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  • Bull Tales
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  • Doonesbury
  • The Doonesbury Special
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  • 75953(xsd:integer)
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  • Created in "the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture," and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University. Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.
  • In 1990, a major storyline involved Andy Lippincott, a recurring character introduced in the 1970s and one of the first explicitly gay human characters in a comic strip. Lipincott died from complications related to AIDS in the strip which ran on May 24, 1990, eight days after the death of Jim Henson. In the May 29th strip, Andy speaks at his own funeral via a pre-recorded video, announcing happily that he made it into Heaven, and "by the way, Jim Henson's here."
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