Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 07, 2014

Joanie, don’t go there.

“I ate yesterday, but I could eat again.”

Meet Andy Lippincott. One of the half dozen characters to have passed away during the 40 years of Doonesbury.

I really can’t remember him …possible the original drawing of him is the problem..Is this the character that passed away because of AIDS…do remember that series..very moving at the time ..as so much of this strip has been..why so piopuler over the decades..

@stcleve: very astute observation.

Among Others by Jo Walton explores two versions of our timeline. Neither one is what happened for us, but both feel real and shed a light on where things could have gone with the smallest change to prompt them.

the great american comic strip

Is Joanie coming on to John Kerry? Or was he still in Vietnam in those days?

Pretty sure Chase has not died. I’m wondering about Alice, though.

Duke died, but he didn’t stay dead. He came back as a zombie.

Good old Gary Trudeau – he wrote a gay character before it became Hollywood-trendy.

@Night-Gaunt49 – Not a part of reality that everyone was willing to write about in the 70’s. And certainly not as a normal person (Clyde: I hear you’re gay. Andy: Well, I hear you’re black. Clyde: Well, that’s normal! Andy: Didn’t use to be) rather than some sort of flamboyant stereotype.