Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 15, 2009

The last frame is really hard to read, even magnified. I think the line is “which we inherited”. Just in case anybody is struggling like I did. Hope that helps.

yeah,i got the same thing.

not sure i get the joke.

i been a desciple of gb so long that mebbe the point is,

he’s now talkin to a congregation with macular degeneration.

or maybe it’s an ink thing.

i will stay tuned

It may be a play on the economic disaster, which this current administration inherited (or so they say).

“It’s the economy”, frame 3, “which we inheirited.”, frame 4. A perfectly Doonesbury statement.

Last panel.. – Got it, I’ll set this folks straight –which we inherited

I think he’s satirizing both the President’s and editor’s excuse of “we inherited this economy” to deflect blame…

Editors/Publishers are reducing the size of newspapers’ comics in an effort to cut cost..

As someone noted a while back; FireFox3, and probably other browsers as well (maybe with the same key-combinations) will zoom in with [Ctrl]-[NumPad-+], out with [Ctrl]-[NumPad–]. And in mine (under Ubuntu), that zoom level stays for this URL; handy, that! Not that these old eyes need it, y’understand!

in firefox 3 just put the cursor on the strip and left click the mouse

In Chrome you just press control and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out! Nice.

..hey..you read my paper…

hold “Ctrl” and hit the + key several times and it’ll get bigger……………

Use “Ctrl” and - to shrink it back…………

Thanks Nickjallin. I’ve never tried the ctrl button and scrolling the mouse wheel. It works on my firefox browser to. Thanks for the tip.

What’s the deal with some of you folks? Are you saying that the current administration DIDN’T inherit the present economy? I’d like to hear someone give a cogent explanation of that opinion, and find how it is possible that the present economy is actually the fault of the Democrats, even though the Republicans controlled all three branches of government for most of the past 8 years… and Congress for most of the past 12 years.

I think you mis-understood. Of course the Democrats inherited the economy, but that is no longer the question, which is now “Will the Democrats’ solutions help cure the economy or prolong it further”? Many have argued that FDR’s “New Deal” strategies may have kept the Depression going longer than it needed to, and only the massive war economy pulled us out of it. Will the new New Deal need a war to jump start it?

Ummm … what did Mike say in that last panel??

People who buy newspapers love their commics. This is an opportunity for some insightful editor to double the size of the comic frames. A whole advertising campaign could be built around it. There is nothing quite as nostalgic as seeing a comic the size you remember reading when a child.

I can click on the Comic to Enlarge it - but still had to get out my reading glasses to figure out the last panel (earlier this morning before other folks helped out in Comments).

At least being shrunk is better than being dumped, as our local rag, The Milwaukee Journal, did to their loyal readers recently.

Finding Doonsebury here on Gocomics is actually more fun. I should thank those buttheads.

It doesn’t matter how much you enlarge it when the original has low resolution to start with.

As far as I can tell, all these comics will enlarge if you simply left click on them no matter which browser you have. Then you can click on the enlarged panel to return it to its original size. You can of course enlarge it even more with some of the suggestions above depending on your browser and/or operating system. I think control-scroll-wheel works with both Mac and PC.

(Nevertheless, as noted, it doesn’t really do much good because the original image is low resolution.)

For the impatient ones: Obama said from the start it would take time, maybe years. There is a LOT to fix.

There are many respected economists that say more stimulation is needed. There are many who say that the 30’s would have recovered faster if more had been spent. And more recently they say Japan took 10 years because the government was afraid to spend as much as needed.

I’m certainly not qualified to judge (as most other here), but I’m willing to give the President’s plan a chance. I know for sure he wants to succeed and has our best interests in heart. And he has shown himself to be about 1000 times as competent as the previous prez.

Cartoon frame shrinkage is just one reason I now get my comics on line and have cancelled all three hard copy subscriptions to papers. I miss the crinkle of the Sunday Times as I imprinted jelly prints on the pages, but I refuse to buy an enormous stack of trash ads and inserts to search for the few pages of relevant news, commentary and comics. Sorting through my local rag had become more akin to dumpster diving.

If they don’t shrink the comics, they can’t fit in as many ads – and that’s all that matters to the newspapers anymore.