A rather striking picture of the luminous Heleyni.
Today Tristan asked me to write a 200-700 word article about Garry Trudeau for next week’s Salient, which I need to finish tomorrow. I just found out that after 13 years of drawing Doonesbury, Trudeau took 18 months off to write a musical. So my career is 23 years behind his. Of course by that stage he had a Pulitzer and four Presidents hated him… but it’s still a weird coincidence.
I thought I should write about how Walden College has changed in the strip from being a fictionalised version of Yale to a satire on modern academic standards where there are Sega-themed dorms and minimum A-grades are awarded to maintain student’s self-esteem. I’ve been flicking through 37 years’ worth of Doonesbury collections, and I’m experiencing the same sensation of fullness I had after reading ten years of Salient in one go.
I’ve also sketched Corey Comet. So much for reducing the in-jokes…
