🎲 A World Where Rage Was Funny and Insecurity Was Loveable: Peanuts, Doonesbury and the Long ... (opens in new tab)

On 30 November 1970, five weeks into Doonesbury’s run, protests against the Vietnam war began to figure into the strip’s plot lines after “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer tried to occupy the offices of Walden College’s president. The potential real-world stakes of antiwar activism came into play a few days later when Mark, after being suspended for his radical activities and thereby losing his draft exemption,received his conscription notice. Mark’s one-man protest, however, wasn’t the first time ...