Doonesbury - The Whole World Will Be Watching

[JHB]

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Watching and GOTV, at the Very Least!

[DFW]

2. I can't wait to hear what the charges are for the first person arrested for this

"Felony hydration?"

[catrose]

3. Bravo, Boopsie!

[JHB]

4. The activist there is Sam(antha), BD and Boopsie's daughter...

Zonker was her nanny for a number of years while he lived with BD and Boops.

Boopsie's there, of course, in the last panel.

[catrose]

5. Thanks for the explanation.

I was contemporaneous with Barbara Ann Boopstein when she majored in fashion magazines or similar at Walden College and just started dating BD. I followed her movie career (3rd Girl In Shower in Porky's, Muffy and the Mounties, etc.) and her career as New Age channeler of Hunk-Ra, she who named her child Samantha Moonbeam Galadriel. Amid the activists around her, Boopsie's opinion about the war (all of them) was she wanted BD to come back safe. So with one line (and 50 years of backstory), her creator puts her on the voting rights bus to Georgia, and I think it's a magnificent transformation (both for her and him as the artist).

I didn't know who we were dealing with in the first 2 panels. Then I saw the environment and said, "Oh, Sam. Sure." Last I saw Sam, they moved their whole LGBTQ+ club to Walden, to BD's dismay (and drawing attention to the homeless plight of such youth). So not as big of a step to be organizing for voting rights, more like a reasonable progression from what we'd seen.

So yay, Sam, yes, but BRAVO, BOOPSIE!

[Hekate]

6. Well done you. I remember when Boopsie discovered the horrors of the Vietnam war...

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Farmers’ paddies were being bombed (by American aircraft) and in the process killing their water buffalo and flocks of ducks. In a true cri de coeur, Boopsie wailed, “They’re killing baby duckies!”

Well, you have to start somewhere, and she’s always had a good heart.

When Sam was born and named, Boopsie waxed on about her daughter’s future as a glamorous movie star. As the list of potentials went on, the newborn’s thought bubble added something more on the lines of Mother Theresa: “…..Washing the feet of lepers…” so we knew from then she’d have a different future.

I remember Sam’s homeless students wandering thru the kitchen, and her telling BD that they were homeless (I thought it was the cost of living), but did not remember that detail about them being the LGBTQ+ club.

Doonesbury was running his Hunk-Ra series when I interviewed for a job advertised as assistant (basically office manager) to an author and speaker who also gave retreats. Suddenly the woman asked me: “What do you know about trance channelling?”

I am proud to say that my jaw did not drop. I said dryly: “Only what I read in the newspapers.”

I got the job. It was an interesting experience.

[alphafemale]

16. It is interesting when comic strip characters age normally.

Or cartoon characters.

Like Bart Simpson being in 4th grade for over 30 years now.

[Hekate]

17. This one is pretty much unique. Trudeau chronicles our times, & he's a treasure. nt

[alphafemale]

18. For Better or for Worse the kids went from infancy to teens and beyond to their own kids

But that strip retired almost 15 years ago

[Hekate]

19. Very true, and I loved them. I tried to get the entire set of the books. nt

[soldierant]

21. Boopsie still deserves the accolade

for raising Sam right.

[Hekate]

7. Kicktoons for the inestimable Doonesbury. "Okay, who raised this child? Really?"

I look forward to the follow-up in November.

[uponit7771]

8. K&R

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[RedArkGuy]

10. Censorship

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette did not run the first two panels today. I wonder why.

[JHB]

11. It's not censorship, it's formatting

Different papers budget different amounts of page space for the Sunday comics. It's pretty routine for cartoonists to write the first two panels so that they're "disposable" for when the paper uses the more compact version where they're cut out.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Another great Doonesbury strip

[crickets]

13. Nice! K&R

[Stuart G]

14. K & R

[alphafemale]

15. "Good Trouble" is a reverent reference to the late John Lewis from GA

Mighty, mighty good man.

[burrowowl]

20. Doonesbury, excellent as usual!