Subject Matter
Genres:
humorous
Feature(s):
Doonesbury
Character(s):
Mike Doonesbury; Daisy Doonesbury (first appearance); B.D.; Bernie; Mark Slackmeyer; Phil Slackmeyer; Calvin; Didi Robins (first appearance); Marilou Slackmeyer; Barbara Ann "Boopsie" Boopstein (first appearance); Zonker Harris (first appearance); Nichole (first appearance); President King
Synopsis:
Mark gets a summer job as a construction worker; B.D. and Bernie attend ROTC Summer Camp; B.D.'s dad gets laid off; Zonker joins the football team; "Gorgeous preppie," Vietnam veteran, John Kerry speaks at the university.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1971-06-05 - 1971-12-25.
Miscellaneous
Pages:
124
Notes:
Much of this material reprinted in a different format in The President Is a Lot Smarter Than You Think (A Doonesbury Book) (Popular Library, 1973 Series) #[nn] and Don’t Ever Change, Boopsie (A Doonesbury Book) (Popular Library, 1973 Series) #[nn].
Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Newspaper publication of Carlton’s work began “in early December [1971]”; Carlton also lettered the strip for the first few weeks that he inked it, as well as for a later, decades-long run (Walker 2010, 30–31).
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References:
Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Inside Doonesbury’s Brain.” Newsweek. October 15, 1990. Quoted in Brian Walker, Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).
Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.