Thursday, June 01, 2023

Even Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

By G.B. Trudeau


According to the blurb on the cover, these cartoons are taken from Still a Few Bugs in the System. The copyright is from 1970, 1971 and 1972.

The book opens with the footballer, BD, getting a new roommate, namely Mike Doonesbury. From there it portrays the college lives of Mike, BD and Mark Slackmeyer, who is a militant student activist. 

Here are the three of them together:


And here is Mark on his way to cause trouble on a campus:


Hard to believe that it has been over fifty years since these cartoons came out. Trudueau and I are both old now and those days are gone for good. But at least I can look back at that time through cartoon books like this. And younger people can laugh at our old timey antics. 


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