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CSotD: Sunday Rerun: Doonesbury, January 8, 1975

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Mike Peterson Published: February 13, 2010 1 minute 0 comments

This was part of a series of Duke strips that I recognized all too well. I was, at the time, being "Dad" during the day and "the author" at night, and I set a clock for 12:30 AM in my office, knowing that anything I wrote after that would have to be re-written in the morning anyway.

I also had this cartoon on the wall next to my desk, because I wasn't, at 25, too far removed from having taken part in Duke's form of deadline enhancement. Trust me, it was not just futile but genuinely counterproductive.