The current series of strips, featuring Zonker, are another fascinating example of the continuity within the Doonesbury universe. Back then (1993) we had Zonker as an underground distributor of necessary medical assistance to a shunned part of American society. Now we have Zonker, seemingly ageless, as the proprietor of a quasi-legal (it’s legality denied federally) form of the same plant. Plus ça change, plus ça meme chose!

Thank you for today’s terrifying strip and so many others over the past 50 years (!) that I’ve been loving you. Just can’t help yourself oh truth teller, can you? Stay well, stay real. 

The mainstream press is dominated by debate about what the Democrats should do to win the election, but I haven't seen anything so striking, or chilling, as Duke's advice to his son.

I’m disappointed by today’s strip, as I’ve been anticipating the imminent announcement in these pages of Duke’s Cabinet appointment. I can easily see him as Trump's Sec Def or Sec State, or maybe head of DEA or Homeland Security (“acting" of course, as Senate confirmation might be a bit of a problem). Duke may be amoral, but he’s clever, witty, calculating and resourceful. I’d wager that even zombie Duke would be better at any of these jobs than the incumbents.

Ah, so this explains our current White House press secretaries! Keep up the great work.

Congratulations in advance on the almost-impending 50th anniversary of Doonesbury (October 26, 2020). Dad and I laughed at "Guilty, guilty, guilty!" at our breakfast table in Sacramento. My kid sister sent me letters at college that started "Dear Captain America..." and our dog was named Zonker. When things get tough we say, "You gotta BELIEVE!" We've remained fans all these years. Earlier this week I sent my sister a cute video of wildlife on our neighborhood pond and she responded "Not baby ducks!"

Re today's Classic strip: "Jeepers." I like that. Not nearly enough people say "jeepers" any more...

Thank you for the July 4 "Say What?" from Ronald Reagan. That farewell speech was one of the best he ever made: "We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation."

If adventure has a name, it's -- The Red Rascal! Raspberry. Whatever.

Did the Red Raspberry (Rascal, whatever) really say he was there to "affect" regime change? I guess that's the result of spending too much time in the mountains of Afghanistan and not enough in school.

Hi Garry. I love the strip but today's installment troubled me. Showing the assassination of the leader of a foreign country could serve to "normalize" the possibility. Because there is no critical context for the action depicted, this could further trouble Iran's leaders. There's a similar problem with Mark Tatulli's strip Lio and his frequent depictions of nuclear rockets and mushroom clouds. Neither nuclear war nor the assassination of foreign leaders are laughing matters.

We all have our reference points of sanity and Doonesbury has always been one of mine. I've been a reader from the early '70s and when Mike (and I) graduated from college in 1983, I endured many of the same job market struggles in NYC as he did. Thank you Garry, and please hang in there, because we need you now more than ever.  

It was great seeing GBT with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning again yesterday! I gotta tell you, when he read out the strip of B.D.'s grievous wounding, I got goosebumps.

Another GBT crystal ball home run with the 15-years-ago-today Flashback strip. A most sad prescient view. 

First, a salute to “Ole Guy” (below). As a 72-year-old aspiring curmudgeon myself, I identify with him as if he were my father. Like Ole Guy, I could not have made it this far and kept my sanity without the conspiratorial observations and humor of you and Colbert.

It was great to see Lacey in Sunday's strip even if she was a figment. I had been hoping for an appearance. For me, she was the last good Republican, a symbol of the old WASP upper class. I remember the day when, as she left to work on taxes and deficit spending, Dick reminded her that they were rich. The real world version was G.H.W. Bush, and Lord knows, he compromised his principles to stay in the Republican game. If Lacey's people had stayed in control of the Republican Party after 1960, I could have imagined being one. I watched the Party go evil from a prime seat in the South.  

No, no. Joanie supported Elizabeth Warren back in the day. I hope she hasn't really come to think that centrist not-making-waves is the way to beat Trump! ("The country yearns for calm, for decency, for common sense!") 

Today's Classic Doonesbury strip may be where the education of the general public about medical marijuana really got started. It was sort of vaguely known that marijuana helped with chemo side effects, but this storyline seems to have brought it to the forefront.

Thanks!! As a 94-plus year ole guy -- a true curmudgeon -- thanks for makin' me laugh every mornin'. I love you, Garry; your strip has as much to do with my longevity as anything I can think of -- except my two-plus years in Paris, my 24 years as an ex-pat in Mexico, and finally, my almost 69 years of wedded bliss with my wife Harriette! Thanks from one curmudgeon to another.

-- Emiel aka Emiliano aka ole guy