Tim Blair

You called, Tim. When has "Doonesbury" ever NOT been about "little bits of perfectly placed humiliation"?

It's been decades, all right . . . decades since Doonesbury had anything original to say.

Now if he could only learn to draw.

Trudie hack cartoonist most people have never heard of. GWB Pres USA and well known to a few....

Jealousy dear boy jealousy....

lets see, you both went to yale at the same time, he became president of the most powerful nation in the world, you draw shitty unfunny cartoons for a living.. there's a drop off here...

I don't know whether Bush can draw, but he's certainly a funnier cartoonist than Trudeau

Bush has created more harm to this country’s standing and security than any president in history...

I seem to recall the same thing being said about Ronnie Reagan, who went on to save the world from Mutually Assured Destruction.

It's been decades, all right . . . decades since Doonesbury had anything original to say.

Or anything funny to say, for that matter.

Immaterial, jafa. If the President is Republican, the President is Evil. This is A Law Of Nature (TM).

If you don't believe me, just ask Algore, MoveOn.org, Joe Wilson, etc, etc, ad nauseum.

"Even then he had clearly awesome social skills ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way."

Wait a minute. I though Bush was stupid and dumb and inarticulate. Now he's strategerical?

That's an interesting point, Ken. Thanks for bringing it up. I guess President Bush has been promoted by Trudeau from dumb cowboy to articulate cowboy.

During the final full week of the 1980 Presidential campaign, Trudeau ran a series "Inside Reagan's Brain". He was trying to show his audience just how dumb and dangerous Ronald Reagan was and how he'd bumble us into a war. It was a pretty pathetic attempt at influencing an electorate, and was about as subtle as Michael Moore eating a banana split.

During that final week, while America read Trudeau's personal attack ad, Reagan went from being dead even with Jimmy Carter to a 10-point lead. No doubt Trudeau will try something similar this November. Or so we hope.

Wait a minute. I though Bush was stupid and dumb and inarticulate. Now he's strategerical?

I was wondering that too. Does Bush change from Dumbo to Machiavelli on a daily basis or something?

You didn't know that? He's a complete moron, except when he's an evil genius. Consistency is not these people's strong point.

I used to cringe when "mainstream" liberals like Trudeau skewered Bush, Reagan et al.

Now I take Hugh Hewitt's line:

Since the Democratic party has been overrun with "Moore's" disease, the best thing for my side is to publicize and submit these guys to all the sunshine in the world.

If he was that close to Bush, how come he still can't draw him him?? A 'satirical' draughtsman who can't draw his subjects has some core competency issues!!

Here's a very good analysis of what's happened to the strip:

http://reason.com/0207/cr.jw.doonesburied.shtml

Consistency is not these people's strong point.

What is their strong point?

Trudeau has been "destroyed"?
By the millions he's made from his cartoons...
Or by the awards that have been showered on him ...
I think we can all see where the envy is coming from Tim

Now, now, you gotta feel sorry for the old fart. Look at all the ink Rall and Moore have been getting. The Dixie Chicks mouth off and they get banned into #1. There are people making hay off Bush, and yet here's poor Garry Trudeau, trying his hardest to piss off people, and all that's coming out is a trickle.

He got B.D.'s leg shot off and now he's running a weeklong series on the war, and he's not getting any of that hot reputation-boosting action. No strips pulled. No panels condemned. He's taking to running outright lies (like polls show only 2% of Iraqis support the U.S. presence), and he still can't get that link-love he craves.

It's a sad, sad career in a comic world when Johnny Hart is more controversial than you.

Bill,

Nicely done! He got passed by Rall, et al, in the race to the bottom - now he cannot really ever catch them...

Yeah, Trudeau is turning into a bitter loser in his old age. Maybe he should start drawing greeting cards.

uuuuhhh...I was forced to join a fraternity! They Hazed us 'en Razed us 'en Made Us Do Stoopid Stuff...

Garry's pledge name didn't happpen to be "Flounder," did it?

Oh, and I'd like a frequency chart as to how often Garry got beat up in grade school.

Remember when Garfield was funny? For about five minutes back in the early '80s?

Yeah. It was longer ago than that for Doonesbury.

As soon as the criticism claims W is the worst president, has done the most damage, etc. I stop listening. It's the tip off that the argument is emotionally based, not factually based and there's no rebuttal to make that will be considered by such a person.

And that's what is scary, how many voters that seem to make a reaction not a decision in who they vote for. One hopes a lot of these people are better at talking than actually making the effort to vote.

You people can rip on Trudeau's political views all you want, but Dagwood is hilarious. Remember when he fell asleep on the couch? Hmm? Oh. Doonesbury? Is that the one about the Viking? No? Wait... Oh yeah, I remember. Bill the Cat and Opus, they were great. What? Okay, I give up, wtf is a "Doonesbury"?

This reminds me of the comparisons between Al Gore and George Bush during the 2000 election. Gore graduated from Harvard and Bush from Yale. When they went into the military, they took aptitude tests. Bush went to pilot training and ended up flying F-102s. Gore was issued a typewriter to be a reporter for Stars & Stripes. That seems a pretty good assessment of their respective abilities.

Today, Bush is President of the United States. Trudeau is still drawing the same comic strip that hasn't been funny in over 20 years. It seems both have reached the proper level in society.

Doonesbury can be very funny, what's wrong with you people? Doonesbury's problem is that it's a hippie soap opera as told through the eyes of an Ivy League liberal. That isn't a problem for a lot of people and it's made Garry Trudeau a lot of money. His characters are qwirky, dynamic and likeable.

However, what pissed me off was BD losing a leg and the fact that BD isn't a Lieutenent Colonal after 30+ years in the army/army reserve.

Or you or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you.
I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but
we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.
-- J. Wellington Wells
paxil