Tagged as: doonesbury

CSotD: War correspondence from home

by Mike Peterson November 22, 2010

Garry Trudeau’s work in Doonesbury with veterans and with active-duty GIs has been exemplary and I think marks a new point in war coverage and media. Today’s humorous depiction of the modern, plugged-in GI is a pretty good example.Let me try to get this right without cranking out a six-volume explanation.The Crimean War (1853-56) was […]

CSotD: Even ice cream isn’t served THAT cold

by Mike Peterson September 23, 2010

Granted, this Doonesbury sequence is in Trudeau’s often-clumsy preachy mode rather than in his more relaxed humorous social-criticism tone, but the idea of carrying a grudge that long, and the implication that it was at least in part a motivation for all the striving, is something I find particularly funny. Not in the least […]