Doonesbury , American newspaper comic strip chronicling the lives of a large group of characters, mostly a set of college friends, over the years. Once an idealistic student, over the years Mike finds himself compromising his principles in his work and shifting his political leanings. Other prominent characters include performance artist J. Thompson , whose persona evolved into that of a perpetually stoned consummate scam artist who is always looking for an easy way to make money on the world stage. In the early years the main characters were college students who did not perceptibly age.

Doonesbury 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 from a college student to a youthful senior citizen over the decades. Created in "the throes of '60s and '70s counterculture ," [1] and frequently political in nature, Doonesbury features characters representing a range of affiliations, but the cartoon is noted for a liberal viewpoint. The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone 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 [3] then Todd Pound.

Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, , until August 6, It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America , where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, , Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13,