Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 27, 1971
February 26, 1971
March 01, 1971
Transcript:
Mark: She's late, Mike. Mike: Don't you worry about it, Marcus! My little sister's worth the wait. She'll probably be the best blind date you've ever had. Mark: Well, what's she like? Is she good-looking? Mike: I like to think so.
Mike31g over 12 years ago
Neither did I!I don’t remember her in the Jan 2011 series showing Daisy’s funeral (their mother),
suzannetangerine almost 12 years ago
This sister must be a very short narrative dead-end, a once-off character. She’s not in any of the collections—it’s the first I’ve seen of her. Not much later than this, Mike’s family of origin is established as being his mother Daisy and his idealistic, studious younger brother Benji, who wants to be a doctor. (Benji later decides to call himself “Sal” (“Sal Putrid”, like “Sid Vicious”), a cynical, apathetic punk who eventually sells condoms for Dr. Whoopie. When he re-enters the strip, much later, at Daisy’s funeral, he seems to be going by ‘Benji’ again.)
Incidentally, B.D. also seems to have a once-off sister (the one his teammates joke about in an earlier strip, who they think he was on a date with.) I’m pretty sure she never appears again, and she’s definitely not at B.D.’s wedding or with him at the hospital after his leg gets blown off, a very serious set of strips that plays up important relationships (He introduces Boopsie as his “strong right hand” in one of those strips).