Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 07, 2023

Jeremy Cavendish, the grim reaper’s assistant.

Our family calls our string collections “yarn”.

Still sad but funny. Trudeau at the top of his game…

I keep thinking he’s somehow related to Zipper!!!

Fare thee well, Lacey Davenport!!

Even when dying, Lacey wears that ugly hat!!

Not unlike BD’s stupid helmets!!

Trudeau’s poignancy adds emotional depth to gallows humor, making it, strangely, even funnier.

“If only these strings could talk – this one was on a package I got when I was eleven…”

the bed has swung round 180 degrees from monday

“Seasons don’t fear the Reaper, nor do the wind and the Sun and the rain”

Jeremy may be alive and that’s the last words she will hear

Might have something to do with “string theory”? It is very disorganized. He doesn’t have it wrapped in a large ball. No wonder he had misplaced it.

A touching love story.

An LOL last panel. Perfect.

As an aside it was on the same date, April 7th 1990, eight years earlier, Andy passed while listening to Pet sounds.

Quite the beak on ol’ Dickey

That would make me want to go, too!

Now instead of dying, you can quit social media and have the same effect

It is about time – she is facing west.

Jeremy apparently can’t SEE Dick—-who somehow ends up on the reverse side of the bed .

Farewell,Lacey.May you and Adlai Stevenson have stimulating conversations together.

Last words: “Either Jeremy’s string collection goes…or I do!”

It is unique to Trudeau to insert drollery into this deeply profound conversation. And I love it.

Fare thee well, Lacey. Grand old dames like you are hard to come by.

That would be an apt clue.

Nothing will spur the process on quite like Jeremy.

As many of us thought all through 2016, “Hyperion to a satyr.” (Hamlet) There’s no comparison.