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Thu 29 Apr 2021 13.27 EDT
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Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury may be tame by comparison with If… (Letters, 27 April), but during the Aids disaster in the 1980s, Trudeau gave us the death of Andy Lippincott while listening to Pet Sounds on CD (the track was Wouldn’t it be Nice). This is the only time I have cried at the death of a cartoon character.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The groundbreaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for half a century. Its willingness to tackle social issues, politics and war made it the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize. Doonesbury has also been censored for some of those same reasons. To celebrate the strip s 50th anniversary, there s a new book that includes a thumb drive with all 15,000 strips. Jon Kalish spoke with its creator and prepared this report.
JON KALISH, BYLINE: Doonesbury started when Garry Trudeau was a junior at Yale. It was originally called Bull Tales, and it caught the attention of a fledgling newspaper syndicate. Trudeau says he was told the drawing and lettering needed work, but it read like dispatches from the front lines of the counterculture.