On 30 November 1970, five weeks into Doonesbury's run, protests against the Vietnam war began to figure into the strip’s plot lines after “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer tried to occupy the offices of Walden College’s president. The potential real-world stakes of antiwar activism came into play a few days later when Mark, after being suspended for … Continue reading A World Where Rage Was Funny and Insecurity Was Loveable: Peanuts, Doonesbury and the Long 1960s.
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Random Thoughts on Alex Doonesbury (Still) Not Being Dead, X’ed-Out Comic-Strip Eyes, and Hogan’s Alley.
About a month ago, Garry Trudeau drew a strip about Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter as “X.” In the final panel, Alex Doonesbury, after pointing out to Toggle how the letter X had numerous negative associations – ranging from an unknown quantity, to error, to death – is rendered with her own eyes X-ed out. … Continue reading Random Thoughts on Alex Doonesbury (Still) Not Being Dead, X’ed-Out Comic-Strip Eyes, and Hogan’s Alley.
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