Doonesbury

We have different ones in England, but like Peanuts, Garfield,

Doonesbury.

Kind of remember that.

I remember Marmaduke.

Let me tell you what would be funny.

How about this? If Greg came here as an intern, he'd get nicknamed Doonesbury.

Okay.

How do you like your coffee, Greg? Can we move on? Have your fun.

the human-animal bond, but also what it tells about human relationships.

It's literary, and it's easy to miss that when you're reading that, and then now I've moved on to The Peanut Strip, and now I'm reading Doonesbury, and you've forgotten, oh, I enjoyed The Mutts.

That made me think.

this allows you to sit with it for a moment because you've got this book in front of you.

1958 Pan American Airways make the first commercial flight to Paris from New York City.

1970 The comic strip Doonesbury makes its debut in 28 newspapers.

1970 Muhammad Ali returns to the ring after being banned for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War.

1973, President Nixon releases the first set of tapes on the Watergate scandal.

Our friend, the beaver.

Our Friend the Beaver was the title of Zonker Harris's college-level biology term paper in the comic strip Doonesbury.

Oh, okay.

That's what that's

Okay.

I only knew it as a comic.

I think it was actually, no, a comic strip, not a comic book.

Oh, okay.

And yeah, I wanted to be a comic strip cartoonist.

I loved Pogo and Little Avner and Doonesbury and others.

And-

Were you doing cartoons in the student press

Roxanne, I'm telling you, you sent me through some shit.

Do you remember Doomsbury? Oh, yeah, Lord, yes.

Well, you transported me to the Oval Office, and Jackass is sitting there, Mike TV, and he's like, what? Because remember, he wanted to use it last time.

They had to talk him out of just using a nuke because he just wanted to see what it does, like a little kid with a firecracker.

And we could talk about the exact books, but I, I even felt that way about the best nonfiction this year.

I mean, it was great to read Garry Trudeau's biography, for example, you know, the creator of Doonesbury, and books like that.

You feel these, these just great, interesting, funny minds and, and what's better than that?

Um, I loved what you just said in the middle of that.