A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY: 40 years ago today, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury arrived in papers, and apart from a hiatus in 1983-84, has been a continuous fixture since. In honor of the anniversary, Slate has the full 14,600 strip archive open to the general public for the next couple of weeks, and provides 200 particularly memorable strips as an entry point. There are a lot of impressive things about Doonesbury and Trudeau's work--the evolution of his art from the rough pencils of the early days to the highly detailed work we see now, how he has created a finely intertwined group of characters and aged them (at least after the hiatus, when he moved away from Walden College and introduced a broader universe), and how he's been willing to break down barriers about the types of characters we see in the comics.