Subject Matter
Genres:
humorous
Feature(s):
Doonesbury
Character(s):
Joanie Caucus; Rick Redfern; Lacey Davenport; Zonker Harris; Uncle Duke; Mark Slackmeyer; Miles Potash; B.D.; Kirby; Mike Doonesbury; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr.; Jimmy Thudpucker; Jenny Thudpucker; Feedback Thudpucker; Nichole; Bernie
Synopsis:
Joanie continues working on Lacey’s Ethics Committee; Uncle Duke goes into the Laetrile business and lectures young Republicans; Zonker explains the Panama Canal Treaty to the football team; Roland Burton Hedley, Jr., now at ABC Wide World of News, films a mini-documentary on 1977’s “Campus Mood” and covers President Carter’s world tour; Jimmy Thudpucker lays down some disco and appears on “The Midnight Special”; Joanie debates Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1977-07-04 - 1978-01-07
Miscellaneous
Pages:
124
Notes:
Don Carlton was the inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990, 66). Carlton’s association with Garry Trudeau began in the early 1970s, and his responsibilities grew to include lettering of the strip. The association endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31).
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References:
Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Real Life with Garry Trudeau.” Newsweek, October 15. Microfilm.
Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.