Bloom County and Doonesbury began as strips in college newspapers under different titles, and later moved to national syndication.

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.

Mike and BD started Doonesbury as roommates ; they were not roommates in the Bull Tales.

* Garry Trudeau, cartoonist and creator of Doonesbury, which first appeared in the News pages as Bull Tales

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.

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.

In the comic strip Doonesbury, the mother of Toggle, Alex Doonesbury's fiancé, claims that Toggle's father is a member of Mötley Crüe, but she doesn't know which one.

In his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate, which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes, offered Winick a development contract.

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.

After fellow CBS newscaster and Texan Dan Rather was switched from the White House beat to hosting the documentary show CBS Reports in 1974, the Sunday October 13 edition of the Doonesbury comic strip featured a joking fantasy scene in which Schieffer, his successor, haltingly comments on the transition: " It was the affiliatesthey just couldn't take him.

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.

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.

* A few years after the Switcheroo, Bill Amend ( FoxTrot ) made a Sunday strip in which Jason Fox, Andy Fox, Roger Fox, and Peter Fox changed looks: Baby Blues, Calvin and Hobbes ( which had ended roughly 15 months before the original Switcheroonie ), and Doonesbury were three of several parodied strips.

In 1980 he staged Stephen Poliakoff's play American Days at Manhattan Theatre Club, which featured David Blue, one of the performers in the Rolling Thunder Revue, and then 1983 he staged Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, based on the comic strip Doonesbury on Broadway.

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, 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.

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.

Gay Talese appeared in several strips of the comic Doonesbury, giving an interview to radio host Mark Slackmeyer to promote his book Thy Neighbor's Wife.

He appeared in the 1983 Broadway version of the Doonesbury comic strip.

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.

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

Garry Trudeau, who was McLennan's roommate when they were students at Yale University, based his Doonesbury character, the Rev.

In the autumn of 2010, the Pulitzer prize-winning comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau featured the University in a series of daily strips.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

Of the 38, only one newspaper The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, continued to carry the Sunday Doonesbury, though of necessity in black and white.

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

Various public figures and humorists, such as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury have popularized some more famous Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush.

* September 12: Doonesbury is dropped and then promptly reinstated by The Guardian.

This ranged from the conservative slant of Little Orphan Annie to the unabashed liberalism of Doonesbury.

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.

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.

Doonesbury is written and pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by his assistant Don Carlton.

The first Doonesbury cartoon, from October 26, 1970.

As Doonesbury, the strip debuted as a daily strip in about two dozen newspapers on October 26, 1970 – the first strip from Universal Press Syndicate.

Doonesbury became well known for its social and political commentary, always timely, and peppered with wry and ironic humor.

Like Li ‘ l Abner and Pogo before it, Doonesbury blurred the distinction between editorial cartoon and the funny pages.

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.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

A panel from the famous Doonesbury “ Stonewall ” strip, referring to the Watergate scandal, from August 12, 1974 ; awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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

Some of the second generation of Doonesbury characters have attended Walden, a venue Trudeau uses to advance his concerns about academic standards in America.