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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This Week in Doonesbury: Alex Is (Probably) Not Dead.
About a month or so ago, Garry Trudeau did an interview on Bud Mishkin’s Before the Cheering Started podcast. He mentioned that he rarely shows his freshly-completed strips to his family; for him, that would be as weird as a lawyer showing their partner a recent brief they had been working on. There’s a great … Continue reading This Week in Doonesbury: Alex Is (Probably) Not Dead.
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