Doonesbury is a comic strip by G. B. Trudeau. It chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters, of different ages, professions, and backgrounds — from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a struggling, middle aged, remarried father.
Frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters professing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon’s editorial slant is primarily noted for a liberal outlook. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (1960s prep school slang for "someone unafraid to appear foolish") and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.
Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, beginning September, 1968. It focused on local campus events at Yale. The executive editor of the paper in the late 1960s, Reed Hundt, who later served as the chairman of the FCC,...
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