Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 04, 2014

They’ve gone all Ted Turner on these strips that were originally black and white.

1970. when being a “lover boy” was still thought of as a good option on college campuses.

Forgot how much of a dork Mike was in the beginning.

Recalling that GT knew what B.D. stood for in 1970, more so today!

I think it’s wonderful to see these old classics. Hopefully you will continue to publish them on a day-to-day basic like… forever!

Those of you looking for fresh strips may have to wait a while… http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/garry-trudeau-announces-extended-hiatus-comics-pages-will-run-classic-early-strips/2014/03/02/aaf94a88-a0a8-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.htmlPersonally, I don’t mind strolling down classic lane. This weeks is strips from the launch in 1970, only a few years before I started reading this strip regularly.

Did the trolls bitch and moan like this when Watterson and Breathed decided to put the pen down? G. T. Has been at this for more than forty years! If he wants to do other projects, or just kick back and enjoy the fruits of his labor, that’s just fine with me – thanks for the laughs, and sometimes, insights. Poor indignant trolls – when you’ve given us forty SECONDS of entertainment, come back and we’ll talk. Until then … Go away!

Cute strip today. Can’t wait to see new episodes of alpha house, that should also be great fun.;) and we now get to see the younger versions of people we have talked about.

I had every Doonesbury compilation book that ever came out, including the one including this art. Then a friend borrowed fifteen of them, something that didn’t concern me since I knew how fast he could read through them. But I didn’t think he and his family would leave them scattered about the out door deck in a rainstorm.Oh well.C.

I’ve been a fan from the beginning. The strip was first in the Detroit Free Press’s comics section until Joannie went to bed with Redfern. Then it was banished to (I think) the editorial section.

I am SO happy that they are running old, old, old strips now — I didn’t get to see them the first time around, so they are ALL new strips for me..And a pox on the low-life trolls who want to do nothing but criticize!

Does anybody out there still remember Brian Dowling?

I’m tickled! a wish come true….classic Doonsbury!

I’m tickled! a wish come true….classic Doonsbury!

I’m looking forward to BD going to Vietnam. I haven’t read those strips in 40 years.

Well, saving grace is that new strips will still run Sundays (as per the WaPo article referenced by ‘traceling’). I’m involved with the characters & issues as they are and am sorry to lose ’em on a daily basis.

This is my first opportunity to read the originals. I had no idea what a flake Mike was in the beginning…

Good one.

love this. I was only 16 in 1970 and missed the beginning.

Nor does it hurt

Does Mike not realize that football players get all the girls they can handle on their own?And after all, BD wound up with Boopsie.

Awesome to see these—I’d love to see the whole series from the beginning (if I live that long!).

Funny that he considered himself a lover back then, when he seems generally clueless about women these days.

But BD was the quarterback, so he didn’t make hits and didn’t need to bulk up (if anybody had even heard of steroids back in the day). As far as the strip goes, he was in great health until Iraq.

I saw a recent pic of GT’s mom and she looked a lot like daisy Doonesbury

Daisy was basically an old lady wearing a big floppy hat, ala GT’s mom.

Why has GT gone classic? Where are the new Doonesbury?!?

I’ve been suggesting for awhile that if Trudeau wants to run reruns, he should use something old enough that we’ve forgotten it. Good to see him running with it.

I remember reading this when it first came out.

I’m glad they restarted from the beginning. Now I can see what they were like 20 years before I was born.

For more on Brian Dowling and his beyond-superstar status as Yale’s quarterback and captain, track down a copy of the excellent 2008 documentary “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29”. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286800/

Good lord, saw these when they first came out.

Far better stuff than the overblown politics over the last ten years or so. One could actually believe that Trudeau is a comic strip guy who can be entertaining and funny for every reader, not just his extreme left pals. Keep dem re-runs comin’ !

Love how BD is sinking lower and lower into his chair as Mike continues to babble. .I remember some of the early stuff – not the actual strips – just scraps of images. Like BD was almost always sitting in a chair. Rarely spoke, but always had a thought bubble.