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42-609: The Daily Herald is owned by Ogden Newspapers . The paper has a daily circulation of 32,000, with a Thursday circulation of 42,000 and a Sunday circulation of 36,000. It also owns nine community publications in Utah and Sanpete counties. The earliest predecessor of the Daily Herald , the Provo Daily Times , was founded in 1873. It was the first newspaper to be published in Provo, when Utah

84-633: A Broadway musical of the strip , showing the graduation of the main characters. The Broadway adaptation opened at the Biltmore Theatre on November 21, 1983, and played 104 performances. Elizabeth Swados composed the music for Trudeau's book and lyrics. The strip resumed some time after the events in the musical, with further changes having taken place after the end of the musical's plot. Mike, Mark, Zonker, B.D., and Boopsie were all now graduates; B.D. and Boopsie were living in Malibu , California , where B.D.

126-573: A 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman , a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird , and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers . Trudeau has also displayed fluency in various forms of jargon , including those of real estate agents, flight attendants , computer scientists, journalists, presidential aides, and soldiers in Iraq. The unnamed college attended by

168-512: A combined circulation of 5,800, instead began receiving Thursday issues of the Herald, leading to a higher subscription count that day. At that time the weekly papers in southern Utah County were not affected. However, by January 2011, it announced that it would entirely discontinue the weekly newspapers that covered southern Utah County ( Springville Herald , Spanish Fork Press , and Nebo Reporter ) and incorporate their content into daily publication of

210-413: A limited number of strips, "for the last two years, he's been subtext in almost all of them." In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special, A Doonesbury Special , which was produced and directed by Trudeau along with John Hubley (who died during the storyboarding stage) and Faith Hubley . The special was first broadcast by NBC on November 27, 1977. It won a Special Jury Award at

252-492: A range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (American prep school slang for someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury , Trudeau's roommate at Yale University . Doonesbury is written and penciled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by an assistant, Don Carlton, then Todd Pound. Sunday strips are colored by George Corsillo. Doonesbury

294-469: A son, Jeff . Uncle Duke and Roland Hedley have also appeared often, frequently in more topical settings unconnected to the main characters. In more recent years the second generation has taken prominence as they have grown to college age: Jeff Redfern, Alex Doonesbury, Zonker's nephew Zipper Harris , and Uncle Duke's son Earl. Doonesbury has covered numerous political and social issues, some of which were pioneering and others that drew criticism: When

336-490: A venue Trudeau uses to advance his concerns about academic standards in the United States. President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster , President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance. Even though Doonesbury frequently features real-life U.S. politicians, they are rarely depicted with their real faces. Originally, strips featuring

378-555: Is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury , who has progressed over the decades from a college student to a youthful senior citizen. Created in "the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture ", and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing

420-470: Is going on in Washington : the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury , not necessarily in that order." Trudeau took a 22-month hiatus, from January 2, 1983, to September 30, 1984. Before the break in the strip, the characters were eternal college students, living in a commune together near Walden College, which was modeled after Trudeau's alma mater, Yale. During the break, Trudeau helped create

462-578: The Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Oscar nomination (for best animated short film), both in 1978. Voice actors for the special included Barbara Harris , William Sloane Coffin Jr. , Jack Gilford and Will Jordan . Also included were "Stop in the Middle" and "I Do Believe", two songs "sung" by the character Jimmy Thudpucker, also part of the "Special". While

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504-634: The Daily Herald to Ogden Newspapers . Ogden Newspapers Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a Wheeling, West Virginia based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides. It has operations in California , Florida , Hawaii , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Maryland , Michigan , Minnesota , New Hampshire , New York , North Dakota , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Utah , Virginia and West Virginia , serving mostly small markets, such as Cape Coral, Florida , Fort Wayne, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas . The company

546-544: The Daily Herald . By April 2013, the online editions of all the northern Utah County publications, except the American Fork Citizen have been discontinued. However, an online edition of The Pyramid ( Mount Pleasant in Sanpete County ) is also published. In February 2013, the Daily Herald announced that it would no longer publish a daily opinion page. This change came shortly after 10 percent of its workforce

588-651: The dot-com boom . Current events are mirrored through the original characters, their offspring (the "second generation"), and occasional new characters. Garry Trudeau received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1994, and their Reuben Award for 1995 for his work on the strip. Doonesbury 's syndicate, Universal Uclick , announced on May 29, 2013, that the comic strip would go on hiatus from June 10 to Labor Day of that year while Garry Trudeau worked on his streaming video comedy Alpha House , which

630-449: The 2010s, it was syndicated in approximately 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In May 1975, Doonesbury became the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize , taking the award for Editorial Cartooning . That year, U.S. President Gerald Ford told the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association at their annual dinner, "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what

672-511: The House , another character worried that he would 'wake up someday in a country run by Newt Gingrich . ' " In its 2003 series " John Kerry : A Candidate in the Making" on the 2004 presidential race , The Boston Globe reprinted and discussed 1971 Doonesbury cartoons of the young Kerry's Vietnam War protest speeches . Doonesbury has a large group of recurring characters, with 24 currently listed at

714-568: The President of the United States would show an external view of the White House , with dialogue emerging from inside. During the Gerald Ford administration, characters would be shown speaking to Ford at press conferences, and fictional dialogue supposedly spoken by Ford would be written as coming "off-panel". Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger ,

756-461: The Sunday Doonesbury , though of necessity in black and white. Some newspapers have dealt with the criticism by moving the strip from the comics page to the editorial page, because many people believe that a politically based comic strip like Doonesbury does not belong in a traditionally child-friendly comics section. The Lincoln Journal started the trend in 1973. In some papers (such as

798-565: The comic, meeting Mike and Mark in Colorado and eventually moving into the commune. They were later joined by B.D. and his girlfriend (later wife) Boopsie , upon B.D.'s return from Vietnam . Nichole, DiDi, and Bernie were mostly phased out in subsequent years, and Zonker's Uncle Duke was introduced as the most prominent character outside the Walden group, and the main link to many secondary characters. The Walden students graduated in 1983, after which

840-717: The company was the apparent high bid to purchase the bankrupt Charleston Gazette-Mail . It withdrew the bid on March 8, 2018. Also in March 2018, the company purchased all newspapers owned by the Byrd family. The sale included The Winchester Star , Daily News-Record , The Page News and Courier , The Warren Sentinel , The Shenandoah Valley-Herald and The Valley Banner . On January 1, 2022, Ogden Newspapers took over Swift Communications , which has publications in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. In 2024, Ogden purchased The Dominion Post . Doonesbury Doonesbury

882-655: The compositions and performances were credited to "Jimmy Thudpucker", they were in fact co-written and sung by James Allen "Jimmy" Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for "Ginny's Song", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits , an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver 's subsidiary of RCA Records. With the exception of Walden College, Trudeau has frequently used real-life settings, based on real scenarios, but with fictional results. Because of lead times, real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau's comics unusable, such as

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924-442: The dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from "off-panel" (although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington). Sometimes hands, or in rare cases, the back of heads would also be seen. Later, personal symbols reflecting some aspect of their character came into use. These included: The long career of

966-525: The first strip from Universal Press Syndicate ). A Sunday strip began on March 21, 1971. Many of the early strips were reprints of the Bull Tales cartoons, with some changes to the drawings and plots. B. D. 's helmet changed from having a "Y" (for Yale) to a star (for the fictional Walden College). Mike and B. D. started Doonesbury as roommates; they were not roommates in Bull Tales . Doonesbury became known for its social and political commentary. By

1008-438: The foreseeable future. Since March 3, 2014, the strip has offered reruns starting from the very beginning of its history as opposed to the recent ones that re-run when Trudeau is on vacation. Alpha House was cancelled in 2016, but Trudeau did not return to drawing Monday-to-Saturday strips, and continued his Sunday-only schedule. In a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone , Trudeau said that while Donald Trump appears in only

1050-489: The main characters was later given the name "Walden College", revealed to be in Connecticut (the same state as Yale), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation , slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure , issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated. Some of the second generation of Doonesbury characters have attended Walden,

1092-450: The newspaper until 1996, when it was sold to Pulitzer , which held it for almost a decade. In 2005 Pulitzer was sold to Lee Enterprises . In February 2009, the Daily Herald announced it would discontinue five weekly papers that had covered northern Utah County: the American Fork Citizen , Pleasant Grove Review , Lehi Free Press , Lone Peak Press and Orem Times . Subscribers to those papers, which were published every Thursday and had

1134-487: The opposition. Trudeau is coming out of deep left field." Some conservatives have intensely criticized Doonesbury . Several examples are cited in the Milestones section of the strip's website. The strip has also met criticism from its readers almost since it began syndicated publication. For example, when Lacey Davenport's husband Dick, in the last moments before his death, calls on God, several conservative pundits called

1176-425: The political figures that have appeared or been referred to in the strip over the years. A 1984 series of strips showing Vice President George H. W. Bush placing his manhood in a blind trust —in parody of Bush's use of that financial instrument to fend off concerns that his governmental decisions would be influenced by his investment holdings—brought the politician to complain, " Doonesbury 's carrying water for

1218-518: The removal of the strip were unsuccessful, conservatives changed their tactics, and instead of writing to newspaper editors, they began writing to one of the printers who prints the color Sunday comics. In 2005, Continental Features refused to continue printing the Sunday Doonesbury , causing it to disappear from the 38 Sunday papers that Continental Features printed. Of the 38, only one newspaper, The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama , continued to carry

1260-502: The series and continual use of real-life political figures, analysts note, have led to some uncanny cases of the cartoon foreshadowing a national shift in the politicians' political fortunes. Tina Gianoulis in St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture observes that "In 1971, well before the conservative Reagan years , a forward-looking B.D. called Ronald Reagan his 'hero'. In 1984, almost ten years before Congressman Newt Gingrich became Speaker of

1302-469: The strip became a success, veteran cartoonist, Al Capp grudgingly admitted, “Anybody who can draw bad pictures of the White House four times in a row and succeed knows something I don’t. His style defies all measurement.” Charles M. Schulz of Peanuts called Trudeau "unprofessional" for taking a long sabbatical. (See also, similar comments by Schulz about sabbaticals taken by Bill Watterson . ) Nor

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1344-551: The strip began to progress in something closer to real time. Their spouses and developing families became more important after this: Joanie's daughter J.J. Caucus married Mike and they had a daughter, Alex Doonesbury . They divorced, Mike married Kim Rosenthal , a Vietnamese refugee (who had appeared in the strip as a baby adopted by a Jewish family just after the fall of Saigon ; see Operation Babylift ), and J.J. married Zeke Brenner, her former boyfriend and Uncle Duke's former groundskeeper. Joanie married Rick Redfern , and they had

1386-557: The strip blasphemous. The sequence of Dick Davenport's final bird-watching and fatal heart attack was run in November 1986. Liberal politicians skewered by Trudeau in the strip have also complained, including Democrats such as former U.S. House Speaker Tip O'Neill and California Governor Jerry Brown . Strips about post-World War II American wars have also generated controversy, including Vietnam , Grenada , Panama and both Gulf Wars . After many letter-writing campaigns demanding

1428-700: The strip's website. There, it notes that "readers new to Doonesbury sometimes experience a temporary bout of character shock", as the sheer number of characters (and the historical connections among them) can be overwhelming. The main characters are a group who attended the fictional Walden College during the strip's first 12 years, and moved into a commune together in April 1972. Most of the other characters first appeared as family members, friends, or other acquaintances. The original Walden Commune residents were Mike Doonesbury , Zonker Harris , Mark Slackmeyer , Nichole, Bernie, and DiDi. In September 1972, Joanie Caucus joined

1470-571: Was a daily strip through most of its existence, but since February 2014 it has run repeat strips Monday through Saturday, and new strips on Sunday. Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales , which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News , from 1968 to 1970. It focused on local campus events at Yale. Doonesbury proper debuted as a daily strip in twenty-eight newspapers on October 26, 1970 (it being

1512-584: Was a third-string quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams , and Boopsie was making a living from walk-on and cameo roles. Mark was living in Washington, D.C., working for National Public Radio . Michael and J.J. had gotten married, and Mike had dropped out of business school to start work in an advertising agency in New York City. Zonker, still not ready for the "real world", was living with Mike and J.J. until he

1554-596: Was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke's " Baby Doc College" in Haiti . Prior to the hiatus, the strip's characters had aged only slightly. But when Trudeau returned to Doonesbury , the characters began to age in something close to real time, as in Gasoline Alley and For Better or for Worse , Since then, the main characters' ages and career developments have tracked those of standard media portrayals of baby boomers , with jobs in advertising, law enforcement, and

1596-696: Was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890, and is currently run by the family of his grandson, G. Ogden Nutting. Current CEO Robert Nutting , son of G. Ogden Nutting, is the fourth generation of the Ogden-Nutting family to run the company, and is also principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates . In October 1984, two Ogden newspapers ( The Intelligencer and The Evening Journal ) dropped the Doonesbury comic strip because they objected to Doonesbury's coverage of Ronald Reagan . On January 30, 2018, it emerged that

1638-467: Was laid off, including the executive editor. As of May 2013, a replacement executive editor, nor an interim executive editor, had not been identified, leaving the possibility that the position may be permanently eliminated. In April 2014, Bob Williams was named publisher, and in September 2015, the Daily Herald named Scott Tittrington and Jordan Carroll as co-managing editors. In 2016, Lee Enterprises sold

1680-481: Was picked up by Amazon Studios. "Doonesbury Flashbacks" were offered during those weeks, but due to the unusually long hiatus, some newspapers opted to run different comic strips instead. Sunday strips returned as scheduled, but the daily strip's hiatus was extended until November 2013. After Alpha House was renewed for a second season in February 2014, Trudeau announced that he would now produce only Sunday strips for

1722-688: Was still a frontier territory. The paper eventually changed its name to the Enquirer , and then to the Provo Post . A competitor, the Utah County Democrat , was founded in 1898 and renamed the Provo Herald in 1909. In 1924 the Provo Post and the Provo Herald merged, forming a final foundation for the later Daily Herald . The company was purchased in 1926 by James G. Scripps, eldest son of newspaper magnate E. W. Scripps . Scripps League Newspapers held

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1764-461: Was the return of the strip itself greeted with universal acclaim; in 1985, Saturday Review listed Trudeau as one of the country's "Most Overrated People in American Arts and Letters", commenting that the "most publicized return since MacArthur 's has produced a strip that is predictable, mean-spirited, and not as funny as before." Doonesbury has angered, irritated, or been rebuked by many of

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