For Trudeau, road to comic fame began on York Street
It was early September, 1968. A tall, lanky junior wandered into 202 York St., home of the Yale Daily News, holding a handful of hand-drawn comics — a series about the football team called “Bull Tales.” Nervously, the young man greeted Executive Editor Reed Hundt ’69 LAW ’74. After rifling through the first three or four comic strips, Hundt shrugged. He was impressed with the artist’s humor, but less so with his drawing ability.
Still, Hundt agreed to run the strip.
“Sure. We print pretty much anything,” the young man recalled the editor saying.
Little did Hundt...
This is an incredibly inspirational article and it made my day!
If QB Brian Dowling was BD, who were Mike and Zonker?
Good article (although a bit heavy on the adjectives). Also, I think the penultimate paragraph suffered some faulty editing.
Who among the current crowd will be as powerful or persuasive as those mentioned here?
Mr. Trudeau has given as much (joy, humor, insight, intelligence, political clarity, war sensitivity, altruism, sociology, psychology, law and order) to our country as Bush has stolen (although Bush is pretty much a joke all by himself).
Well-written article. It wouldn't hurt to mention that Reed Hundt was the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Clinton Admin, as a matter of context.
More to the point, Mr. Trudeau's gracious and respectful portrayal of the ordeals of Iraq War vets in the aftermath of their service is just one more instance where he has served the public and the truth well through "Doonesbury." Bravo, once again, G.B. - you, Sir, are one of the (many) reasons I came to Yale.
I'm pretty sure Trudeau's name is on the wall at Wolf's HEad.
I believe the hospital is called Walter Reed instead of Reid. Oh well, an Ivy League education can teach you only so much.
The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (1960s prep school slang for "someone unafraid to appear foolish") and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University. "Doone" usually refers to someone socially clueless; it's sort of like the Yiddish "nebbish".
How interesting to read this article on Trudeau, the week that Jed Brinton, a Yale Law student left to become a reporter embedded with the troops in Iraq. (He's now assigned to be with the military police in Northern Iraq)
Trudeau lives on the land and the mill that one of Jed's great grandfathers, Joseph Knight Sr. owned.
I have an "old" (c.1973) Doonesbury paperback comic book that starts at the beginning. My comment is that there must be others, like myself, who've saved D'bury stuff. I Would much rather see it go in a Trudeau museum; a Doonesbury Museum might put some salve on my arthritic cringing when we get the W Bush museum.
I was class of '68 and remember reading Trudeau's comics in the OCD while I was still an undergraduate. How does that square with his appearance first in September, 1968? I recall clearly that I graduated with my class. Someone has it wrong.
Funny -- that means that Bush didn't live in the Cottage. I always pegged Bush for the Cottage.