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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 30, 2008 - 02:29pm PT
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Most astute political commentator around. Cartoonist extraordinaire.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Sep 30, 2008 - 02:30pm PT
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Gotta love the man.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Sep 30, 2008 - 02:34pm PT
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Now if we could only get Calvin & Hobbes back!!!!
But you know, Ouch! does a pretty good job of keeping us
entertained!!!!
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 02:40pm PT
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Steve, I loved Calvin and Hobbes.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 30, 2008 - 02:43pm PT
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Bump and bump again. What about R. Griffith and Zippy the Pinhead?
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2008 - 02:46pm PT
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Anybody seen Tundra? Sorta like The Far Side.
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Anguish
Mountain climber
Jackson Hole Wyo.
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Sep 30, 2008 - 03:26pm PT
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Trudeau is more than a comic strip artist. Early in his career he had to be moved off the comic pages because he was a political commentator. He does his research, one can tell. Like his series on BD (named after Yale football OB Brian Dowling) who lost a leg in Iraq. BD never appeared w/o a helmet before that explosion. What he went through after that - phantom pain, readjustment to society, etc. is not something you can make up.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sep 30, 2008 - 04:36pm PT
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I'll never forget the week of GT's "Inside Regan's Brain" strips.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 30, 2008 - 04:42pm PT
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When I was in Alaska this summer I read a whole book of Tundra. Pretty good stuff. Oliphant is also very good. You gotta laugh at this political quagmire or your guts go shooting out your southern orifice.
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perswig
climber
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Sep 30, 2008 - 08:33pm PT
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Duke and his chemically altered take on reality.
The George Hamilton Classic tanning circuit.
I have this sh#t to blame for my twisted take on life and it's (mostly) GT's fault, I'm pretty sure.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Oct 25, 2008 - 10:27pm PT
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Zippy come to my e-mail every day.
for less than the price of a glazed, he will come to yours as well, just ask him.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 25, 2008 - 10:30pm PT
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I missed this one when I was away at the FaceLift.
Garry Trudeau also has an even more famous (distant) cousin, by name of Pierre Trudeau. Yep, the prime minister of Canada from 1968 - 84. (Died 2000.) All the Trudeaus in North America are descended from someone of that name who emigrated to Quebec in the 17th century, and had several sons, who had sons, who had...
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Phantom Fugitive
Trad climber
Misery
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Oct 26, 2008 - 11:04pm PT
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Tami...
hey canadiababe.
Did I ever tell you I stayed in Oliphants guest house?
He and I were pit together for awhile to take his Pullitzer Prize winning wit and turn them into animated shorts for MSNBC. One year of em we did and they were awful.
Got to meet Trudeau, Jim Davis(Garfield), among others in that gig as we tried to catch the dot com wave. My only and last corporate gig. Still, pretty steenkin fun.
Jer Collins
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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Oct 27, 2008 - 11:59am PT
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reading my folks' big Doonesbury compilations as a kid was utterly formative. My sense of humor and general worldview I think either derive from his cartoons, or perhaps I strongly identified with them because we're a lot alike, not sure which.
Inside Reagan's brain: looking backward through rose-colored glasses...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon for November 5th has now been issued. (They're drawn about a week ahead.) It in effect states that Obama will win the election, and shows his characters responding to the news. Some of the news media are wrestling with whether to publish it - although they won't have to decide until late Tuesday anyway. Trudeau says that if he's wrong, "it'll be my face that'll be covered with egg, not theirs"
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-doonesbury1-2008nov01,0,2244580.story
It would be nice to see a clean Obama win. But I do enjoy seeing the pretentious people in the news media squirm when elections they purported to "declare" or "call", or candidates/parties they stated were "elected", turn out not to be. As in 2000, for one. It's not their job to do so - that's why there are officials running elections. They can "predict", if they want, but no more.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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But the real Comic question is where will Opus end up?
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Grant Meisenholder
Trad climber
CA
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Sadly, I think Opus met his maker at the pound. That way, there can never be a call to start drawing the strip again as there was for Bloom County.
The good thing is that now I have no reason to subscribe to our heavily right-leaning fish wrapper and can just be content to get my news from online.
RIP Opus...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Yeah I will probably stop buying the Sunday SF Chronicle.
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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My Sunday mornings will never be the same.
Off to Vons to get the Sunday LA Times tomorrrow - they don't home deliver in Bishop.
Priorities: Doonesbury, Opus, a "tough" Sudoku, and the crossword.
I will miss you Opus!
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