Memorial Day...

[littlelotte]

So, with Memorial Day coming up I am put in mind of the Doonesbury strip from Memorial Day 2004 (well, the day before...he runs it on Sundays with the full eight panels). This was the year I had started reading the strip (it ran in the Kalamazoo Gazette which was offered free to all students), and given that it was summer I had subscribed to the strip through email. Starting with Memorial Day that year, and running every one since, he has used his comic strip in a very poignant and fitting way for the holiday. It drew much fire, but I thought it was a beautiful honor to what the holiday stands for.

2004


2005
Part I - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009krr4
Part II - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009ptkg

2006
Part I - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009qte3
Part II - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009r2wc

2007
Part I - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009s3zq
Part II - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009t09e

And...just for a bit of the lighter (but still serious) side of the comic...
Doonesbury on Creationism:


Doonesbury on the death of Hunter S. Thompson (the character that's the focus of this particular day was based on him):


ROFL! I completely forgot until I started searching for that that the above was Day 2 in a week's worth of Hunter S. Thompson/Duke tributes...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18756-2005Mar8.html
Day 1 - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009yk36
Day 3 - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/0009zwzh
Day 4 - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/000a0p4r
Day 5 - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/000a1896
Day 6 - http://pics.livejournal.com/littlelotte/pic/000a23pz