Guilty, guilty, guilty!! In fact, Doonesbury was often censored as its more political storylines wandered into controversial areas. Its characters went through two Iraq wars, countless presidential campaigns and myriad social and cultural issues from AIDS and abortion to senility and even death.
One — Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, who began comic life as a loudmouthed campus radical — came out of the closet and, for a while, was in a relationship with Chase, an acerbic right winger. He and Boopsie married and had a daughter, Sam.
And he remained resolutely and belligerently right-wing, a foil for the others, especially the nerdish Mike Doonesbury. His resolve was typified by his headgear. BD was never — ever! It offered Trudeau a platform to deal with the struggles of soldiers both physically disabled and mentally troubled, like the young woman Army mechanic, who tried not always successfully to come to terms with having been sexually assaulted by a superior officer.
Women in general have an interesting Doonesbury history. And any list has to include Zonker Harris, one of the original Walden students and the only one to remain true to his hippie ethos well into the 21st century.
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This is a list of well known people who were born or lived in the city of Seattle. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. Jimmy Thudpucker — is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury, created by Garry Trudeau. Kim Rosenthal. After a couple of years on campus, he moved to Walden Commune, along with B.
During a cross country motorcycle trip with Mark,Mike encounterd Joanie Caucaus who had recently left her husband because of differnt views of femminsm. Mike made a deal with Joanie saying that she could stay at their commune until she went to law school as long as she helped out with the commune.
Joanie excepted and stayed with them until she was accepted to school. In the Doonesbury musical that ran during the strip's long hiatus in , he graduated from Walden and married Joanie's daughter, J. By the time the strip picked up again he had started and then dropped out of business school, but this was not shown. After this, Mike took a career in advertising in New York City at the World Trade Center , and frequently found that the jobs he was assigned to violated his values and caused him a great deal of moral anguish over whether he should take the job or rebel.
These assignments included selling Ronald Reagan to black voters and the creation of a new mascot for the tobacco indu. The latter caused him to have disturbing dreams, which came to life in the form of Mr. Butts , who occasionally haunts Mike's dreams to this day. Despite his qualms about his work, he usually accepted the tasks he was given, as he was too timid and too worried about finding another job to resist. Mike's marriage was rocky from the beginning, and only got worse as time went on.
He was down to earth and sensible, and J. The two had trouble relating to each other, and he was almost tempted into an affair with Nicole. He relented at the last moment when J. She gave birth to Alex Doonesbury in This temporarily saved their relationship, but they ended up divorced in , after J.
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