Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 02, 2022

No blood on Trump’s hands?

The pandemic must be over.

My neighbors have a 3 year old daughter. To entertain her, I showed her an old Disney cartoon. She preferred to keep jumping on the bed without caring about Donald Duck .

This is so WRONG. Trump would never use a horn, he’d just run someone over and then sue them.

When I was little, I didn’t get DOONESBURY…

GT has a personal connection here. The Hubley Studios worked on the Doonesbury TV special in the 1970’s.

Turned into a blustery day

During the December 1962 to March 1963 newspape strike kid’s TV host, Chuck McCann, would read the comic strips on television, dressed as comic strip characters, lie Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, and The Dragon Lady’s Mother. I’m not old enough to remember Mayor LaGuardia.

Wow, I have not seen that animation in decades, since I was a little kid in the 70’s. Our local library used to show independent animations on saturday afternoons during the summer in the children’s auditorium, they were usually Canadian and Russian produced.

“Windy Day” is an all-time essential cartoon. The Hubleys recorded their two small daughters making up a story and going off on tangents, then animated to it. A follow-up to “Moonbird”, in which the Hubleys’ two sons voiced a slightly more scripted adventure.

No blood on his hands?

Zonked…. I totally agree with you! John and Faith Hubley were one of the best couples in animation history and the short movies they did together or separately are all masterpieces. I was lucky to see “Rooty Toot Toot” as a children and that changed my life forever. “Windy Day” and “Moonbird” will be forever childhood classic. So funnies and full of art and joy♡.

♫ “I’m looking over a three leaf clover that I over looked bethree…” ♪

Yes, I did just now watch “Windy Day.” It was lovely.

oh goody. i have these films to look forward to now!

Trump was OK with witch hunts when he was President…

Well, this is different. Looks like Trudeau is as sick of Trump as the rest of the world.

where’s his bloodied hands?

How did Professional Nanny Zonker get from a room with a projector to Der Fuhrer’s golf course in two panels?

I’ll pass on the sales pitch, and don’t ask me to fill out a survey

Narrated by Georgia Hubley who later went on to greater fame as a founding member of the band Yo La Tengo.

That “little film” IS deLIGHTful!

Great recommendation!

Some kids catch on to politics pretty fast. It depends on a lot of things. I grew up reading the St Louis Post Dispatch. I loved Doonesbury and Herblock toons. I was about 12 during Watergate. I got caught up in watching all of it. I loved following the Kennedys in the years before that. The events with the assassinations, Vietnam War, Watergate, and all of those events at that time were just too big for anyone to ignore, young or old. I had a brother in Vietnam. Can’t get more up close and personal than that. I campaigned for McGovern as a 12 year old. We may heading back to that time as the craziness of now continues to unfold.

thanks for that URL! charming evocation of sharing imagination with siblings

Anyone remember the Dilbert animated show? It was like they read 3 of his strips per episode very slowly (about 10 minutes per strip). Excruciatingly dull

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As a kid, I remember some political cartoons as being funny, not confusing, obscure, boring, or hate-filled — just funny to everyone.

John Hubley – gifted cartoonist and humanitarian, his attempt at making a full-length movie based on the anti-racist musical Finian’s Rainbow was shut down by the Hollywood blacklist, and it would have included the voices of Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, among others.

Also recommended, many of the Max Fleischer cartoons are in the public domain and available for free viewing on Youtube. So are several of the groundbreaking early Disney shorts.

The return to reality is so painful.

I was going to suggest using youtu dot be /4O8VE4qB8-s , but it is way too easy to confuse that uppercase O for a zero. I guess TinyURL still has its place.

Trudeau must be trying to keep up with Biden in the dementia department…

Nice to see someone else who appreciates the Hubleys.

Love the reel-to-reel format. Shades of the AV dept. back in school daze.

My favorite was always Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land

Reading this one is like one of those asinine Family Circuses where the little black dotted line goes everywhere.

Now’s the time for some good Mr. October classics!

I can’t believe you posted the link for this video!! I went to the link and immediately was transported back to the 1970s when I saw the most wonderful video of my entire life on PBS and have been remembering it longingly ever since. As soon as I began to watch “Windy Day” I knew it was the same people who had created the video I remembered all this time! I searched YouTube for them and found a channel with 20 of their animations… including “Cokaboody” the film I remembered. Thank you so much for dropping these wonderful animators back into my life. !!!

Loved “Windy Day”! Thanks to the person who originally posted the mention of it!

Wow. There are surprisingly few views for that animated video, considering the publicity it received today.

I bet you even remember the Hubley made animated Doonesbury Special aired on NBC in Fall 1977.

We looked up the film, and it’s delightful! On YouTube it’s found at https://youtu.be/4O8VE4qB8-s.

Doonesbury (and Pogo and Fred & Hugh) taught me how to read as a kid. Trudeau, don’t be so hard on yourself. At 8, I loved your strip. (And still do)

Thank you for directing us to that delightful film.