The Doonesbury files

[DennisinMH]

I decided to move this topic here away from the National/State Politics category. If @WAPJoe thinks otherwise, I will delete..

This one from 1971 pokes fun at aging politicians. Sound familiar?

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/05/10

[WAPJoe]

Doesn’t seem like a problem unless it turns into political bickering. If so I will move it back to politics.

[DennisinMH]

This one mentions a President who is accused of ignoring commissions, but then decides to appoint one to investigate Democrats.

But it's from 1971.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/08/22

[DennisinMH]

From October, 1972. B.D., one of the Conservative and patriotic characters in the strip, served time in Vietnam, and befriended a Viet Cong "Commie". Here he writes a letter to his friend, and pokes fun at the shape of the Democrats of that period.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/10/05

[DennisinMH]

This one sounds very familiar, from December, 1973.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1973/12/15

[Tazewell]

These look political to me. Plus, I still haven't laughed once. The guy might be a good artist, but he has no sense of humor.

[DennisinMH]

Here's a good one from early 1974, on how a national network back then tried to distort the story of a truck driver at a fuel shortage protest.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1974/01/22

[CCubs]

I find them very humorous Dennis. I remember reading them years ago, didn't understand them so much then, but I do now.

[AV8R]

It does seem all these cartoons are political. I guess I’ll find some “funny” political cartoons myself for the thread.

[cjsummers]

This one from 1971 pokes fun at aging politicians. Sound familiar?

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1971/05/10

Is this poking fun at a specific senator, or is it just an ageist joke? All old people are senile? Is that why it's supposedly funny?