Mallard Fillmore

Mallard Fillmore is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley. The strip follows the exploits of its title character, a politically conservative anthropomorphic green-feather duck who works as a 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. During the 1980s, the name "Mallard Fillmore" was used by DC Comics's Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew as the name of the U.S. President of "Earth-C," also a green-feathered duck. 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... full article at wikipedia