Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley that has been syndicated by King Features Syndicate since May 30, 1994. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-plumaged Duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington Mallard's name is a Pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.