What is "doonesbury"

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.

Doonesbury is a musical with a book and lyrics by Garry Trudeau and music by Elizabeth Swados.

Based on Trudeau's comic strip of the same name, it focuses on that point in its history when the primary characters graduate from college and enter the workforce after more than a decade of being perpetual students and commune-dwellers.

Trudeau took a nearly two-year sabbatical from writing the strip to develop the project.

After twenty previews, the Broadway production, directed by Jacques Levy and choreographed by Margo Sappington, opened on November 21, 1983 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it ran for 104 performances. The cast included Mark Linn-Baker as Mark Slackmeyer, Keith Szarabajka as B.D., Gary Beach as Uncle Duke, Lauren Tom as Honey Huan, Kate Burton as J.J. Caucus, Barbara Andres as Joanie Caucus, Reathal Bean as Roland Headley, Ralph Bruneau as Mike Doonesbury, Albert Macklin as Zonker and Laura Dean as Boopsie.

An original cast recording was released by MCA Records, and a companion book including song lyrics and production photos was published in conjunction with the opening.