Doonesbury is an American comic strip created by Garry Trudeau that debuted in 1970, following a recurring cast of characters through storylines built around contemporary American political and social events rather than the gag-a-day format common to earlier newspaper strips. The strip has directly satirized sitting American presidents and other public figures by name across its run, a degree of pointed topical commentary unusual for its format at the time it began. Doonesbury was the first comic strip to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, awarded in 1975, and it is widely regarded as a landmark in establishing the comic strip as a vehicle for serious political satire.
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Doonesbury, American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Garry Trudeau in 1970. The strip chronicled the lives of a large group of characters, mostly a set of college friends, over the years. Doonesbury’s humor has been noted for its explicitly political content.
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Doonesbury is an American comic strip created by Garry Trudeau that debuted in 1970, following a recurring cast of characters through storylines built around contemporary American political and social events rather than the gag-a-day format common to earlier newspaper strips.
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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, Mike Doonesbury, who has progressed over the decades from a college student to a youthful senior citizen.
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