Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 07, 2014

Deep inside Zonker, beats the heart of a mother.

@mpk39Bruno was referring to Dustin’s brother.

Look for America?

No, thanks, I might find it.

And so begins one of the great epics of the strip. Heewack!

Allright! The search for America saga!My only knowledge of it was in a Smithsonian book about comics where Doonesbury is depicted hitchhiking in his quest, and meeting a trucker that was doing the same, or so he told him, but he was more likely just exploiting his naivety. Too bad it was a sunday strip and will not be shown here.

I hope they show this storyline in detail and not skip through it too quickly.

We went to look for America and it wasn’t there.

I found America and decided to leave it.

When is he going to write new strips again?

Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together… They’ve all gone to look for America…Simon and Garfunkel

GT is doing new strips on Sundays. He is working on alpha house so he can’t do daily strips for now.

Here comes Joanie and then she will go to law school. They had an actual celebration for her at the actual law school mentioned in the strip.

In 1982 I hitchhiked across the U.S. with a buddy of mine. We went from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada & California. We took our time and totaled about 3,800 miles because we had all summer and we zigzagged a fair bit in Texas. One of the highlights of my life! : )

There were some great tunes back in those days…

Interesting stats about Joanie on wiki. She was born in 1935? Wow. But, I guess that is how the math works out…

I’m kinda torn about this, I know it’s just a comic and it was a different era, but I just cannot imagine a mother abandonding her children to run away and live on commune.

Mr. Trudeau followed through some on the problems with that years later.

I think he decided to go Sunday only for now. He’s working on Alpha House instead

hey this is America, profits over people. accept America for all its’ capitalist gory, lol

Trudeau wants to skewer thos who watch TV instead of on the comics page. our loss, America’s loss. Idiot Nation will never get Alpha House, lol

I believe the plan is to chronologically delve into various eras of the strip. So we probably won’t get the whole road trip. But the entire archive is available on comics.com if you want to become a subscriber.

mrgeoff2u: Trudeau is working on the TV show, which was extended. I’m thinking the daily strips might not return till the show is cancelled. And I think we should all prepare ourselves for the possibility that even then, Trudeau might formally retire, or at least quit doing the dailies. That’s just the kind of guy he his. He probably wants to have, and enjoy, a real retirement.

For another way of immersing yourself in “Doonesbury”, read “Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau”, by Brian Walker (one of Mort’s sons), in one handy volume. It also has tons of Trudeau’s other artwork, historical analysis, and so forth.

Forget Peter and Dennis, I want to know if they run into House and Wilson.

And that’s why we in the country appreciate the cities

I’m not sure patterning your life after the characters in EASY RIDER is such a good idea. Try not to enrage any pickup drivers, guys.

Enter Joanie, stage left

“…And walked off to look for America…”

I’ve been 9 times cross-cross country and America was never lost.