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.

( Doonesbury Memorial Day strips, 2004-2007 )

And...just for a bit of the lighter (but still serious) side of the comic...
Doonesbury on Creationism:
( It's big, so I'll be nice... )

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

Happy Memorial Day--and seeing that we are involved in a war, I'd like to take it seriously for a moment and pass on Gary Trudeau's "In Memoriam" message:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2005/db050529.gif

The "To Be Continued..." is so disturbing. The first two panels weren't in yesterday's newspaper, since he only gets six, but I thought it was a nice touch for the site.

And here's the list from the day before Memorial Day last year:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2004/db040530.gif

I love Doonesbury so very, very much. For the rest of you that love Doonesbury so very, very much: