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  • KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

    David Hill | London, UK | February 02, 2025

    Thank you so much for today's  Sunday strip. Please keep up the good work. We need you.

  • NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

    Donald Albertson | Spring Mills, PA | January 29, 2025

    Today's Classic strip shows once again that there is nothing new under the sun, and what goes around comes around.

  • RE: TODAY'S STRIP

    John McQueen | Frederick, MD | January 12, 2025
  • FLASHBACK STRIP FROM 35 YEARS AGO

    Kathleen DeWitt | KURDISTAN | January 09, 2025

    I was taken about with today's FLASHBACK strip from 35 years ago (January 9th, 1990): There is Duke talking about the Panama Canal and all it might offer Trump in the way of business. I had forgotten all about it, and yet it somehow seems so apropos given the today-Trump talking about a takeover of the Canal.

  • CONGRATS TO BECCA

    Barb | Bend, OREGON | January 06, 2025

    Congrats to Becca on her obvious career advancement!

  • THE RED RASCAL

    John McQueen | Frederick, MD | January 05, 2025

    The Red Rascal aiming to double as a sensitive, healing Widow Whisperer -- hilarious! I roared (in a good way). And then it hit me: for decades, along with satirical swordsmanship, Doonesbury has brought healthful diversion. Bravo, thanks, and happy new now!

  • COLOR ME "WEIRD"

    George McDougall | San Juan, PUERTO RICO | January 03, 2025

    Color me "Weird." I've been a Yuuuge Garry TRU fan for many decades, but during the past ten years I've become an equally gung-ho Donald TRU enthusiast. May they both be with us indefinitely!

  • SYNCHRONICITY

    Tim Corica | Hightstown, NJ | December 31, 2024

    I read today's strip, then flipped to the Guardian and found this: "Giant waves bring rare surfing event to Hawaii."

  • TOO GOOD TO LAST

    Bernard W. Tate | Manassas Park, VA | December 29, 2024

    Sigh...the last Doonesbury strip of the year was yet another one lampooning Donald Trump. And I was really enjoying reading strips about the other Doonesbury characters and their lives. I guess it was too good to last. Fellow readers, welcome to another four years of nonstop Trump strips.

  • DELIGHTFUL COMMENTARY

    Maureen | Grand Junction, CO | December 29, 2024

    Re the Sunday 12/29 strip: Thanks for a delightful commentary that left me laughing all the way through. I really needed that!

  • HUMOR HELPS

    Mary Ann Wyrsch | Overland Park, KS | December 29, 2024

    The December 29th Sunday strip about the Trump Clown Car just made my day and possibly my week. It was so inspired, ( coolers for road kill), and right on. Just sending thanks your way. This humor helps a lot.

  • OUCH

    Nick Radonic | Derwood, MD | December 29, 2024

    Ouch -- today's clown car encapsulates the feelings from the first Trump regime, with all the unwanted future potential. "An old V-8 riveted to a recalled Tesla chassis." Ouch.

  • THE NEXT INSANE FOUR YEARS

    Suzy | Henderson, NV | December 29, 2024

    I spent some time last week wondering how GBT would characterize the second MAGA coming. Today's strip couldn't be a more apt description, in my book. Thank you GBT. Please continue to help me maintain sanity (and humor) during the next insane four years.

  • SOUND FAMILIAR?

    Wolfgang Beutin | Rellingen, GERMANY | December 24, 2024

    Christmas greetings to the Democrats -- check the strip of December 24, 1994. Sound familiar?

  • TODAY'S STRIP IS ABOUT ME

    Brian Harvey | Berkeley, CA | December 15, 2024

    Today's strip is about me.  :(

  • WOKE

    Robert Broughton | Victoria, CANADA | December 08, 2024
  • ROSIE

    Bernard W. Tate | Manassas Park, VA | December 07, 2024

    What a pleasure to see Mike doing the grandpa thing with little Rosie! And what a pleasure to see Rosie! Is this the first time we've ever seen her? We usually only hear Rosie crying or barfing or fighting with her brothers off camera. But she still has that Doonesbury edge!

    Editor's Note:

    Rosie's first appearance in the strip was on Sunday, March 3, 2019. Her older brothers are Eli and Danny.

  • CANCELLED MY SUBSCRIPTION

    Vickie Gabin | Santa Fe, NM | November 26, 2024

    I've just cancelled my subscription to the WaPo for the obvious reason -- not endorsing Harris was cowardly and undemocratic. I've followed you since the early days, and now enjoy waking up to the Doonesbury Archive every morning. Fortunately, the Santa Fe New Mexican carries the current, Sunday strip. All best, with hopes for the best election outcome.

  • EDIBLES

    Claudia | Dryden, NY | November 24, 2024

    So edibles are sending kids to the ER? I suppose it was inevitable: Not just because the edibles look delicious to a person with munchies, but because of the lag between eating and flying. Back when you could only bake it into brownies, a friend and I made a batch. We each ate one. Nothing happened. So, figuring it was cheap weed, we ate another. Still nothing. Then we craved something sweet. OMG BROWNIES! By the time his roommates came home from closing down the local bars, we were making monkey noises and jumping on the furniture. Eight hours later we were still pretty high, and desperately trying to hide it from our boss (we were work friends). Enjoy them safely, my friends!

  • KEEP US LAUGHING

    Leslie Bennett | Moorpark, CA | November 20, 2024

    You are my favorite cartoonist. You eloquently say exactly what’s on my mind and make me laugh. It’s the best part of my morning! I hope you will continue to be our watchdog for this new presidency. It’s important to keep us laughing. It’s the only reason I subscribe to the paper. Thank you for all your wonderful humor!