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Doonesbury. 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 ...
The comic strip Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau, features an extensive cast of characters with complex interpersonal relationships; as of 2018, the strip's official website lists twenty-four primary characters, with dozens more having been featured over the years, including some who were phased out of the strip only to be reintroduced years later.
B. D. (. Doonesbury. ) B.D. is a fictional character in Garry Trudeau 's popular comic strip Doonesbury. In the comic strip, nobody is certain what "B.D." is short for (he gives his last name as "D"), but he was based on Brian Dowling, quarterback at Yale University, where Trudeau attended college. In the 1983 stage adaptation of the strip ...
The first collections of Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury were published in the early 1970s by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Regular collections of strips continue to the present day, and are currently published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Garry Trudeau. Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1975, making him the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer.
Uncle Duke is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau.He is nominally Zonker Harris's uncle, albeit an "uncle by courtesy" only.Duke appeared in the strip July 1974 and was originally a straightforward caricature of the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson (see Raoul Duke), but eventually took on a life of his own and a succession of ill-fated ventures in the areas ...
Mark Sheldon Slackmeyer is a character in the comic strip Doonesbury. Character biography. Mark starts out as a radical at Walden College, and leads several peace rallies (in his first appearance, he referred to himself as " 'Megaphone' Mark Slackmeyer"). The character was initially modeled after a Yale undergraduate activist, Mark Zanger.
Zonker Harris. Zonker Harris (his full name is revealed in Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy to be Edgar Zonker Harris) is the stereotypical unfocused confused hippie character in Garry Trudeau 's comic strip Doonesbury. He made his first appearance as a perennial pot -smoking pest plaguing B.D. 's football team in 1971.