Doonesbury, R.I.P.

Sasha_ · 2015-01-01T17:24:39+00:00

Indeed, as the character herself says; "Who are these men who tell their 'victim' they 'had a great time?" - Well, the answer is that "these man" turns out in this case to be an entirely fictional character!

So, we now have one fictional character condemning another entirely fictional character!

Who'd have thought it?!

Piroko · 2015-01-01T20:25:24+00:00

Trudeau should have called it quits when Breathed did. Bloom County was always better.

2015-01-01T17:25:51+00:00

"Doonesbury" Staying Relevant

Honestly, when I first read the strip I assumed he was doing some kind of self-deprecating parody of out-of-touch liberalism, except with a really weak punchline.

You just can’t mock some people . . .

... Were Trudeau younger and edgier, it would plausibly pass for parody of liberal humorlessness, and or even a “meta joke” on comics themselves and their relevance and in the last panels that is what it is going for and sort of hits.

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Trudeau’s excuse about the strip’s “long lead time” is bullshit, by the way, for anybody who knows how comics distribution works. Trudeau either didn’t hear about the story’s collapse until the strip ran, or he was just lazy. (And based on what I’ve heard of Trudeau’s work habits, my money’s on “lazy.”)

I don’t know why he even made that excuse in the first place. The Slate article ends with Trudeau unequivocally stating that it doesn’t even matter that the entire story was a fabrication.

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He was never a ‘genius’ and the strip has never been amusing, merely an occasion for self-fancied initiates to nod knowingly. The strip makes plain in one set of panels what’s manifest from the whole oevre: his viewpoint has ever been unreflective and stereotyped.

... Trudeau did a lot of pieces where he put words into Bush(1&2)’s and Reagan’s mouth (like the many strips where we’re looking at the White House from about 100 feet away). So he’s always had an easy-going relationship with the truth.

lethatis · 2015-01-01T21:47:12+00:00

She's not intended to be a mouthpiece (?)

ralphswanson · 2015-01-01T23:18:54+00:00

Actually, cartoon is a fitting medium for modern feminism: the 'scholarship' is adolescent and the 'oppressors' are fictional.

ctlawguy · 2015-01-02T03:11:44+00:00

The thing that got me was "get its motherfucking leg!" I don't care who you are, outside of feminist fantasy-land, no one, even a gang rapist, refers to another person as "it."

ThePigmanAgain · 2015-01-01T21:39:00+00:00

Full on retard from one of the most over-rated cartoonists on the planet. Rarely is he funny ( he's probably forgotten that's supposed to be a cartoonist's primary mission ) and his characters are all so butt-ugly. Also, he is apparently living under a rock as he seems unaware that the whole UVA thing has fallen apart. Almost makes me want to go and read Garfield -- but only almost.

fia_bui · 2015-01-02T00:03:44+00:00

I'm honestly having a hard time working out what that comic's trying to say. From what I saw it looked like it war parodying the blonde woman for over-reacting, but then the last panel... what was that?

I think you can joke about anything, but if you joke badly about a sensitive subject it's a double backfire.

At any rate, I can't work out what the point of this strip is supposed to be.

Whisper · 2015-01-02T06:47:38+00:00

This is feminism where it belongs: in the funny papers.

SamHarrisFan · 2015-01-02T09:31:49+00:00

Every college gang rape turns out to be false...They must be covering up the real ones.

SamHarrisFan · 2015-01-02T09:35:08+00:00

Our brands at risk

Atleast they got something right, because this shit is garbage.

the3rdoption · 2015-01-02T04:06:23+00:00

Bear in mind, comics are written weeks before publishing. Unless they can come up with something notably better on short notice, they can't really replace it. Kinda hard to stay relevant and accurate with a process like that.

Title	Doonesbury, R.I.P.
Author	librtee_com
Upvotes	38
Comments	17
Date	January 1, 2015 5:11 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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