Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-feathered duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C., USA. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate since May 30, 1994, Mallard Fillmore appears in approximately 400-450 newspapers across the United States. Mallard's name is a pu...
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Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, an anthropomorphic green-feathered duck who works as a politically conservative reporter at fictional television station WFDR in Washington, D.C., USA. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate since May 30, 1994, Mallard Fillmore appears in approximately 400-450 newspapers across the United States. Mallard's name is a pun on the name of the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore.
In 1991, Bruce Tinsley, who was an editorial cartoonist for Charlottesville, Virginia The Daily Progress, was asked to create a cartoon character as a mascot for the newspaper's entertainment page. After several rejects, a duck, which Bruce named "Mallard Fillmore," was accepted, and made his debut in the paper.
Soon after, Tinsley, despite warnings from the editor, started using Mallard Fillmore to express his conservative views in his cartoons. Tinsley was fired from...
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