Source: Good News Network
On this day 48 years ago, the comic strip Doonesbury first premiered in 28 newspapers. Created by cartoonist Garry Trudeau for the Yale school paper, it chronicles the adventures of an array of characters of various backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen over the decades.
The first strip syndicated from Universal Press Syndicate, it won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1975, the first strip cartoon to be so honored. Check out the premier episode… (1970)Created in the throes of ’60s and ’70s counterculture, and frequently political in nature, the name Doonesbury is a combination of the word doone (prep school slang for someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau’s roommate at Yale University.
More Good News on this Date:
- The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, was formed in London (1863)
- Norway became independent from Sweden (1905)
- The P-51 Mustang made its maiden flight (1940)
- Jordan became the second Arab country, after Egypt, to sign a peace accord with Israel, which replaced 46 years of war (1994)
- Britain’s House of Lords voted to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament (1999)
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