Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 08, 2019

How did these two urbane sophisticates produce such a sweet, unassuming creature like Boopsie?

Thermal FAX or plain paper FAX ?

“At least she’s not married…to that idiot.”

Well, whaddaya know. We get to sort of meet Boopsie’s parents. I never knew they had made an appearance.

Stick to the plain fax, Boopsie!

I see that Boopsie’s parents have met BD at least once or twice.

In Pennsylvania Boopsie and BD would have been considered married years ago – it only takes 7 years of living together and you’re married.

Boopsie’s dad looks familiar. Did Andy Lippincott have a brother?

Fax?

Give us the FAX, and only the FAX, ma’am.

A fax. How sweetly amd quaintly of the period!

Fax machines were an important part of life. They were the chief electronic distribution vector for dopey memes.

Alas. I saw a whole book of those once, all genuine examples of the sent-from-office-to-office cartoons with no known beginning, and I didn’t pick it up the only time I had an opportunity. I did note, though, that there was a copyright notice.

I remember when fax machines were the latest, hot item. I never had to use one and then, suddenly, they seemed to vanish. They were obsolete.