I adore Joanie, and considering that J.J. is my name too for the very same reason, I have felt a kinship with the strip ever since I began reading my brother's collections when I was but seven. I am 46 so I've been with you a while, thankfully. My comment has to do with Joan's actions. I can understand that she is irked by the young woman, but I am troubled that she is so disrespectful, using her device rather than continuing eye contact. I feel this perpetuates one of the more rude aspects of our culture. If Joanie maintained solid eye contact she'd be in a stronger position of maturity and authority.

Well, if you text while a worker greets you at the entrance to her place of work, a little passive aggression is to be expected. If it had been a large middle-aged man rather than an elderly woman, she might reasonably be deciding to call security.

I'm dismayed at the way the strip is treating Joanie as an "elderly" person, on Warren's staff merely to increase its "diversity." That young woman surely can't have overlooked the fact that Hilary Clinton, as well as many male polticians and appointees, are in later middle age, and that this country is not being run entirely by the under-30 generation.

I am thrilled that Joanie is on the Senator's staff. What a welcome back from the young staffer! I read Doonesbury on the internet in the morning, and again in the evening when I take my WaPo with the nasty newsprint and ink to my chair and read it cover to cover. I too tear comics from the newspaper for use at work or posting on the fridge! It will be a sad commentary when the hard copy editions of newspapers are gone.

Wow, that kid is stepping in it. I'm reminded of the time I was invited to attend a local church of a liberal stripe because, and I quote, "We need more pagans!" So well-meaning, and so wrong, on so very many levels; among them that I'm Christian.

I love and use both print and Internet. I read the NYTimes Seattle print edition every day wearing my special t-shirt that becomes black with ink as I read. Then I change my shirt and check out Doonesbury on the net where my hands and clothes stay clean and I can e-mail particularly funny strips to my son in San Francisco. Both media types have their uses. You can't wrap cat litter in a monitor.

Egad! Just the other day, I heard that flu vaccinations are recommended for "the elderly," and it seems that I qualify for elderly, too! Hey, I'm only 66 years old. A spring chicken. Barely middle-aged. Elderly, indeed! (I love how, when something matters in my life, I often see it pop up in a Doonesbury strip. He reads people's minds...)

The nice thing about print comics (and the Houston Chronicle used to have several pages of them every day) is that without them, it's unlikely that the comics would be on the web because someone has to pay for all that. The sad thing about print comics is that newspaper delivery service is increasingly unreliable as newspapers turn delivery over to "contractors" to save money. Newspapers also cut the comics to accommodate smaller page sizes -- I didn't know that Doonesbury was an eight-panel Sunday strip until I saw it online.

I switched to reading Doonesbury online many years ago when my favourite weekly newspaper, the Mail & Guardian (formerly Weekly Mail) stopped running the strip to save money. I have gone to the site almost every day since. It is my window on the world of US politics and much else besides.

The digital age is marvelous and I do my share of reading that way; but I would still mourn the loss of newsprint. The downside of the electronic age is that it is too easy and too cheap for anyone to say anything, and often without having to own it. Thus we have a lot of websites masquerading as legitimate news media, but without the ethics and obligations that should go with it.

I miss newspapers comics in that they encouraged daily content, and I was more likely to read a selection of 'toons rather than just the three or four I have bookmarked in my browsers -- many of which only publish a few times a week. Reading a few good newspapers every day truly provided a level of diversity that the web tends to minimize, unless one makes an real effort. The significant impact the web has made in my Doonesbury life is that I am not buying the books. With newspaper reading, you wanted the books in order to have quality images of the 'toons. With the web this is no longer such a need.

The wonderful thing about print is that I can tear favorite strips from the paper and stick them on the refrigerator along with other vital reminders.

Speaking as a real-life Rick Redfern, I must say my feelings are hurt by the comments from younger readers calling us old-fashioned print types "selfish" because we have the temerity to mourn our lost jobs. It feels like they're dancing on the grave of my career.

If you go back and reread the whole week’s storyline, Trudeau, as usual, is throwing us a whammy of social satire, this one so subtle that it seems to have gone over the heads of just about everyone in here -- and elsewhere. (Yeah, I’ve clicked on some of the links.) Look at the first panel. What is Zonk holding in his hands? And why? Mailbag has gone paperless! Does this mean the Millennials have taken over the strip? Not while the older generation is around. Ahem, or so they think. “Stick with print, folks,” say Zonk and Mike -- while abandoning print for tweets in Mailbag! This is the perfect punchline for a bunch of related satirical sub-points in every frame of every panel during the whole week. Brilliant! I burst out laughing so hard my vision started to blur.

Apparently today's strip pissed off a bunch of web comic creators. Check out this amazing meme.

I completely disagree with today's strip. I’ve been a reader for about four years now and I have never once read Doonesbury in a newspaper. I have always read it online, and most of my friends (most around my age of 25) have only read it online as well. The online medium is great for comics. I can easily just press a button to go back and read previous strips without having to dig through a pile of papers to find the exact page. Doonesbury shares a spot in my morning routine with other great comics such as xkcd and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Many artists have made a living by writing comics for the web, and there are thousands of web-only comics that will make sure that that there will never be that little bit of emptiness in our day.

"Stick to print"? It's been years since I read Doonesbury in a newspaper. I read the comic online almost daily, and I'm submitting this feedback through a web-based form.

Ironically, I read Doonesbury electronically because I won't pay for a whole paper to get it, and the Post Express won't include it in their selection of three comics.

Today's strip betrays either a huge ignorance of the reality of modern comics or just plain selfishness. While I like Doonesbury's politics, the format is hopelessly outdated in light of the online world. Writers need no longer worry about cramming their message into three or four small panels, nor artists about keeping to the strict mandates of the newspaper. The Internet is chock-full of high-quality comics of every persuasion, pushing well beyond the boundaries established by traditional print media. If Doonesbury wants to survive the downfall of the local paper, it needs to fundamentally renew itself.

I enjoy your strip. Disagree with your politics, but that's okay. I contemplated the blank panel in today's cartoon. I would hate to think of not having a paper in which to read the comics, my very favorite section. No Doonesbury, terrible. No Garfield, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Curtis, Family Circus, Hagar, etc. -- my day would never be the same! I only continue to subscribe to our local paper for the comics and the puzzles, seriously.