Foxing on book ledge Holt rinehart and Winston, 1972 From its obscure and scruffy origins as biweekly filler in a college newspaper, the new daily comic strip Doonesbury currently delights readers in some 200 newspapers in the U.S. and in nine other countries. For some, this is difficult to understand, for the improbable Doonesbury characters are, man for man, as abrasive as they are entertaining: there's B.D., the charismatic quarterback, whose gridiron bravado hardly betrays his simple ambition to graduate and become an M.P. at Fort Leavenworth; Mark Slackmeyer, whose radical road shows are a constant embarrassment to no one but himself; Bernie, the gentleman scientist and part-time werewolf; Rutus, the precocious ghetto student who plans a career as an enlightened slum-lord; and, of course, Michael J. Doones-bury himself, a hero of sorts, but basically an enigma, an incomplete man, and, above all, a turkey. Garry Trudeau is an actual graduate student, at Yale.