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 over the decades.
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The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.
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Doonesbury is written and penciled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by an assistant: Don Carltonthen Todd Pound.
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Doonesbury was a daily strip through most of its existence, but since February 2014 it has run repeat strips Monday through Saturday, and new strips on Sunday.
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Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, from 1968 to 1970.
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Doonesbury proper debuted as a daily strip in twenty-eight newspapers on October 26,1970.
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In May 1975, Doonesbury became the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, taking the award for Editorial Cartooning.
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Some second generation of Doonesbury characters have attended Walden, a venue Trudeau uses to advance his concerns about academic standards in the United States.
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Doonesbury has a large group of recurring characters, with 24 currently listed at the strip's website.
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Doonesbury has delved into a number of political and social issues, causing controversies and breaking new ground on the comics pages.
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Doonesbury has angered, irritated, or been rebuked by many of the political figures that have appeared or been referred to in the strip over the years.
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In 2005, Continental Features gave in to their demands, and refused to continue printing the Sunday Doonesbury, causing it to disappear from the 38 Sunday papers that Continental Features printed.
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In some papers Doonesbury appears on the opinions page alongside Mallard Fillmore, a politically conservative comic strip.
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