- published: 08 May 2014
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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," 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 pencilled by Garry Trudeau, then inked and lettered by an assistant: Don Carlton then Todd Pound. Sunday strips are coloured in by George Corsillo. A daily strip through most of its existence, since February 2014, Doonesbury has run repeat strips Monday through Saturday, and new strips on Sunday.
Come on, you fair and tender maiden
Be carefull how you court young men
They're like the stars
On a summer's morning
First they appear and then they're gone
If only I were a tiny sparrow
And I had wings
And could fly so high
I'd fly away
To my false lover
There I'd stay
Untill he loves like fire
But as I am
No tiny sparrow
And have no wings
So I can't fly I'll fly away
To a lonesome valley
Wings that pass my troubles by
Wings that pass my troubles by