The email was published in newspapers, websites and blogs around the world and became the subject of a Doonesbury cartoon.

Betty Boop's popularity continues well into present day culture, with references appearing in the comic strip Doonesbury, where the character B. D.

Affectionately embracing satirical portrayals has been a Bush tactic at other times as well, such as when he presented a self-parodying slide show at the May 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner about looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Oval Office after the political comic strip Doonesbury satirically portrayed him on a similar comical search.

For example, the August 12, 1974 Doonesbury strip awarded a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for its depiction of the Watergate scandal.

Frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint.

The name " Doonesbury " is a combination of the word doone ( prep school slang for " someone who is out to lunch ", that is, someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless ) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.

That month, Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, the publishers of collections of Doonesbury until the mid-1980s, took out an ad in the New York Times Book Review, marking the occasion by saying: It ’ s nice for Trudeau and Doonesbury to be so honored, " but it ’ s quite another thing when the Establishment clutches all of Walden Commune to its bosom.

But when Trudeau returned to Doonesbury, the characters began to age in something close to real time, as in Gasoline Alley and For Better or for Worse.

Bush placing his manhood in a blind trust — in parody of Bush ’ s using that financial instrument to fend off concerns that his governmental decisions would be influenced by his investment holdings — brought the politician to complain, " Doonesbury ’ s carrying water for the opposition.

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

* Trudeau, Garry, Doonesbury Flashbacks CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows.

He ended up as a live-in nanny for Mike and J. J. Doonesbury ( who kicked him out in the early 1990s ).

The Winter Carnival parade reflects the theme, and Garry Trudeau, the creator of the comic strip Doonesbury who grew up in the town, creates artwork with characters from his comic strip doing things related to the theme for a button that can be purchased each winter.

The Doonesbury comics also parody the investigation ; they show congressmen claiming that they were doing the sting operation to bust FBI agents who were bribing elected officials and working for foreign organizations hostile to the United States.

Li ' l Abner provided a whole new template for contemporary satire and personal expression in comics, paving the way for Pogo, Feiffer, Doonesbury and MAD.

Despite Zonker calling him " Uncle Duke ", Duke appears to be his surname ; the back matter for the Doonesbury collection " Death of a Party Animal " refers to him as " Raoul Duke ," a throwback to the character's origins.

Fenwick is considered by some to be the model for the character of Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, although Trudeau's Lacey was not modeled on anyone in particular, according to Trudeau.

She won an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway acting and was cast in the Broadway shows Hurlyburly and Doonesbury.

* 1975: Garry Trudeau, Universal Press Syndicate, " for his cartoon strip Doonesbury.

* Charles Pillsbury, attorney, mediator, community activist, New Haven ; name is source for Yale roommate Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip character

* 1994: Garry Trudeau, creator of the cartoon strip " Doonesbury " was cited for consistently attacking doublespeak in all aspects of American life and from all parts of the cultural and political spectrum.

Details on Lippincott's panel for the AIDS quilt from the Doonesbury Flashbacks computer program by Garry Trudeau, published by Mindscape in 1995.

After graduating ( in Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, where his full name is revealed to be Mark Sheldon Slackmeyer ), Mark goes to work for NPR, where he still works today, sometimes referred to as "' Microphone ' Mark ".

On January 10, 2011, the Washington Post reported that “ n the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ,” Shuler “ intends to arm himself more frequently ” and is “ encouraging his staff members to apply for carry permits .” On January 29, 2011, a Doonesbury cartoon made fun of Shuler's plan to carry a gun.

The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.

* A Sunday strip of the newspaper comic " Doonesbury " had some of its characters in a chain.

Nearby is The Harvey School, a private day school which offers 5 day boarding founded in the 19th century, which counts among its alumni " Doonesbury " cartoonist Garry Trudeau.

The conventional comic section is more limited, but sometimes with social commentary, often subtle and oblique, or more bold, abrasive, and consistently pointed as in, Li ' l Abner, Pogo, Doonesbury, Bloom County, and Boondocks or in pulp comics such as Howard the Duck.

The strip, which is published in alternative newsweeklies such as Eye Weekly, offers political and social satire with a regular cast of characters, similar to Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, but with more emphasis on caricature.

Some comic strips, such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks, may be printed on the editorial or op-ed page rather than the comics page because of their regular political commentary.

Doonesbury has angered, irritated, or been rebuked by many of the political figures that have appeared or been referred to in the strip over the years.

In the 2004 book America ( The Book ), written by the staff of The Daily Show, a parody of Mallard Fillmore appears in a section about political cartoons ( which also included parodies of Peanuts and Doonesbury strips ):

The strip often pokes fun at political figures, both South African and elsewhere in the world ( much in the same way, though not as consistently, as the US strip Doonesbury ).

A Doonesbury Special was produced and directed by Trudeau, along with John Hubley ( who died during the storyboarding stage ) and Faith Hubley.

Even though Doonesbury frequently features major real-life U. S. politicians, they are rarely depicted with their real faces.

Some newspapers have dealt with the criticism by moving the strip from the comics page to the editorial page, because many people believe that a politically based comic strip like Doonesbury does not belong in a traditionally child-friendly comics section.

At the strip's end, Steve Dallas came out as gay, and eloped to California with Mark Slackmeyer from the comic strip Doonesbury.

His collaborations, both literary and otherwise, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, in particular the 1976 book Tales From the Margaret Mead Taproom.

In this book he recounted his adventures in American Samoa with Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and several others experienced life in the American territory, which Trudeau had lampooned in a series of " Doonesbury " strips involving Uncle Duke's adventures as the territory's appointed governor.

He married Faith Elliott ( September 16, 1924 – December 7, 2001 ) the same year as the studio's move, and they collaborated on nearly every film he made until his death in 1977 at age 62 during heart surgery ; their final production was A Doonesbury Special ( with creator Garry Trudeau ), which aired on NBC in November of that year.

Mark seized the office of Walden's President King twice ( he considers the first time a failure as President King was far too cooperative ), and in 1972 took a cross-country trip with Michael Doonesbury to Washington, and eventually to that year's Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. Mark Slackmeyer

In 1996, this was adapted to the Doonesbury Election Game, designed by Randy Chase ( who also did Power Politics ) and published by Mindscape, in which players conducted a campaign with the assistance of a pool of advisors selected from characters in the Doonesbury comic strip.

In 1976, when numerous newspapers nationally including the Madison Capital Times declined to run a series of Gary Trudeau's " Doonesbury " comic strips because of their controversial content, The Badger Herald negotiated with the syndicate and was the only paper regionally to print the cartoons.