“Doonesbury” Strips Drawn Through 2012 Presume A Second Obama Term

WASHINGTON - Gary Trudeau, who draws the long-running political comic strip “Doonesbury,” has already drawn enough strips to run through December 2012. Starting with the strips scheduled to run next week, Trudeau presumes not only that Barack Obama will win tomorrow’s election, but that he will be reelected for a second term in 2012.

“I’m about 1,500 strips ahead,” explained Trudeau. “Each of those strips are premised on Obama winning two terms in the White House. I just hope I’m right about that, or else I’m going to have to go and redo all 1,500 strips. 

“Not that it’ll be difficult to do them over. It’s fairly easy to write a satirical strip when you don’t have to worry about, you know, actually being funny.”

Nov 3

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