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2026
A World Where Rage Was Funny and Insecurity Was Loveable: Peanuts, Doonesbury and the Long 1960s.original ↗
10 Jun 2026
2025
5 Sept 2025
“Doesn’t Satire Have to Be Funny?”: Concluding Notes on Doonesbury in the Time of Monsters.original ↗
4 Jul 2025
“A Cautionary Recap of the Life of a Genuinely Awful Human Being”: Donald Trump in Doonesbury.original ↗
14 Feb 2025
2024
“Picking through the Rubble of Three Generations of U.S. Foreign Policy”: Carter’s “New Foundation” and Garry Trudeau’s Nonordinary Realitiesoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2024
17 Jul 2024
“Who Came of Age with Youthful Rage at My Lai”: Jimmy Thudpucker, Rock’n’Roll, and the Memory of Vietnam.original ↗
1 Jun 2024
29 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024
“But Duane! He Won the Election!”: Political Symbolism and the First Ten Days of the Carter Administration.original ↗
9 Jan 2024
2023
Random Thoughts on Alex Doonesbury (Still) Not Being Dead, X’ed-Out Comic-Strip Eyes, and Hogan’s Alley.original ↗
16 Dec 2023
“The Bittersweet Ambiguities of Youth”: Garry Trudeau on Love and Romace on the Comics Page.original ↗
10 Aug 2023
“Then You Admit He’s Shrewd”: Miss Lillian, Amy’s Lemonade Stand, and Jimmy Carter’s Southern Populism. (Doonesbury and the Carter Years, Part IV)original ↗
27 Jun 2023
“I Can’t Change the Teachings of Christ!”: Hunter Thompson, Playboy, and the Moral Ambiguities of Jimmy Carter.original ↗
14 May 2023
2022
“Mocking Constituted Authorities with Bitterness and Fury”: The Comix and Underground Newspapersoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2022
21 Oct 2022
“Sickening Acts of Total Insanity” : Hunter Thompson, Duke and Garry Trudeau (The Gonzo Chronicles, Part X)original ↗
1 Jun 2022
11 May 2022
Perceptions So Frank and Candid They Were Practically Classified: Garry Trudeau in China (The Gonzo Chronicles, Part IX)original ↗
22 Apr 2022
“In a Way, I’m Sort Of Running the Country.” The Gonzo Chronicles, Part VII: Introducing Honeyoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2022
“Independence, Self-Reliance and Millet. Plus Rifles”: Duke and China’s Foreign Policy. (The Gonzo Chronicles, Part Six)original ↗
19 Feb 2022
“There Is Great Disorder Under Heaven, and the Situation Is Excellent.” The Gonzo Chronicles, Part Five: Duke and Deng.original ↗
8 Feb 2022
28 Jan 2022
2021
“Launch Operation Frequent Manhood!”: Duke and the Vietnam Syndrome. (The Gonzo Chronicles, Part Three)original ↗
27 Nov 2021
2020
2019
“Even Richard Nixon Has Got Soul”: Comparing Watergate and the Trump Impeachment in Doonesburyoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
“I Bring You Greetings from President McKinley”: Duke in American Samoa. (The Gonzo Chronicles, Part Two)original ↗
22 Nov 2019
“It Sure Is Against the Law.” Marijuana, Part One: Zonker’s Bust and Box Brown’s Cannabis.original ↗
10 Sept 2019
The Gonzo Chronicles, Part I. “That Place Where the Wave Finally Broke and Rolled Back”: Reconciling Duke and Hunter S. Thompson.original ↗
8 May 2019
4 Feb 2019
24 Jan 2019
2018
Vietnam, the Aftermath: Part II, “Stuffed inside the Spare Tire Compartment of a Volvo.” The Draft Dodgers.original ↗
19 Dec 2018
He’s Black, He’s Beautiful, and by Gosh, He’s Angry: Race in the Early Doonesbury Strips, Part I.original ↗
27 Apr 2018
5 Feb 2018
17 Jan 2018
2017
“Even Revolutionaries Love Chocolate Chip Cookies”: Mark Slackmeyer and Radical Campus Politics.original ↗
17 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017
2 Jun 2017