President King is a character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. His name was inspired by that of Kingman Brewster, who was the president of Yale University when Trudeau was a student there.
King is the president of Walden College, which was attended by most of the main characters in the 1970s. His first appearance coincided with the introduction of Mark Slackmeyer, one of the primary characters. The left-wing radical "Megaphone Mark", pr...
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President King is a character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. His name was inspired by that of Kingman Brewster, who was the president of Yale University when Trudeau was a student there.
King is the president of Walden College, which was attended by most of the main characters in the 1970s. His first appearance coincided with the introduction of Mark Slackmeyer, one of the primary characters. The left-wing radical "Megaphone Mark", protested (nothing in particular, just general protesting) by demanding that King surrender his office to him. Mark had hoped to be violently opposed in order to get publicity and public sympathy for his myriad causes, and was unpleasantly surprised when King happily vacated, even going so far as to offer to show Mark where the brandy and cigars were kept.
Despite this initial portrayal as incredibily genial, King's later appearances show him as a much more cynical man. Indeed, Mark tried the same trick a couple of years later, and King...
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