Blowback

Blowback

A clean, well-lit place to vent

Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.

  • WALDEN

    Margot | Elk, CA | April 16, 2024

    Pining for Walden Puddle...

  • GREAT AGAIN

    Jan | Vancouver, BC | April 16, 2024

    I just came upon this strip from December 22, 1970, a mere few months after Doonesbury began. So Trump got the slogan from you! How great is that!

  • LAST DINNER PARTY

    Bob Warren | Palatine, IL | April 07, 2024

    I enjoyed today's Last Dinner Party strip, and decided to see what Copilot Designer ("AI-Powered No-Code Authoring Tool") could do with the idea. Voila.

    Great strip!

  • DONOR MONEY

    Don Ain Pennsyltucky | Spring Mills, PA | April 01, 2024

    Re yesterday's strip: Hamas leaders enriched themselves with donor money? No wonder Trump seems to favor them.

  • HARD TO BE CIVIL

    Floyd | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | March 31, 2024

    It's really hard to be civil about today's strip. I appreciate that doing fun cartoons about the ongoing murder of 32,000 Palestinians must be difficult, but I find it tasteless that the only response to the Israeli onslaught so far is a joke about Hamas leaders being corrupt and living in Doha. I'll take a bit of time off the cartoon.

  • DISAPPOINTING

    William Keller | Wheaton, IL | March 24, 2024

    I find today's Sunday comic strip very anti-religion and extremely disappointing.

  • WEBSITE TIP

    Whit Whitaker | Fleetwood,NC | March 10, 2024

    Today's strip and Jeff's very real 'Website Tip' reveal why the GOP is cutting funding for the FBI and ATF. These cuts not only degrade domestic as well as foreign counter-intelligence but also law enforcement's capacity to investigate human trafficking, crimes against children, drug gangs, and violent crime. So who is actually defunding the police?

  • THE CARDS

    D.L. | Sacto, CA | January 28, 2024

    King Trump? That's a bad hand. No matter what else you got, it's folding time...

  • TRUMP HOTEL

    Dean Mitchell | Millerton, NY | January 04, 2024

    Today's stories about Trump making millions from foreign entities while president brought to mind this Trump Hotel strip that appeared on August 13, 2017.

  • LOVELY

    Kathleen DeWitt | Duhok, Kurdistan | December 24, 2023

    What a lovely Sunday funny today. I love the banter between Zonker and Ol' Surfer Dude. That is one of the nicest strips in a long time.

  • A HUNGER FOR TIME TRAVEL

    Charlie | Santa Cruz, CA | December 03, 2023

    I'm sorry to see that the past is missing. I hope you will be able to get the FLASHBACKS page back up and running soon. I have a hunger for time travel, and enjoy following multiple Doonesbury storylines at the same time.

    Editor's Note:

    We regret the delay in restoring this popular feature, and hope to have the past back in the present soon. Meanwhile, thank you for your patience and for checking in.

  • DEJA VU ALL OVER THE PLACE

    Dean Mitchell | Millerton, NY | November 03, 2023

    I've been enjoying the current (Classic) Microsoft series. But I regret to inform you that the FLASHBACKS page is out of whack again. Maybe the site should consider getting the glitch vaccine.

    Editor's Note:

    Good suggestion, we'll take it under advisement. Meanwhile, our team will de-weird FLASHBACKS asap. We apologize for the interruption of flow. Good to see, though, that those who are temporarily deprived of the past are condemned to miss it enough to say so. Your vigilance is appreciated.

  • REMINDED

    Frank Maxwell | Redding, CA | September 06, 2023

    It's good to be reminded that some things have actually gotten better in recent American history. When did today's strip about gay marriage originally run?

    Editor's Note:

    June 19, 1999, a mere 24 years ago.

  • THE SITE

    Dean Mitchell | Millerton, NY | July 27, 2023

    Glad to see things are getting back to normal at the Doonesbury web site! I've missed SayWhat? and The Mudline...

    Editor's Note:

    Yes, still a few kinks, but we're getting there! Thanks to all of you for your patience while we puzzled out what the heck was going on.

  • AT A LOSS

    Mark Gardiner | Salt Lake City, UT | April 26, 2023

    I am at a loss! Where have the FLASHBACK strips gone?...

    Editor's Note:

    Sorry for the inconvenience, Mark. Our tech folk are working to solve the mystery of the missing strips, and hope to restore access to the past in the near future. Thanks to all who have written to heads-up us on this situation. Your vigilance is appreciated!
    -- David Stanford, Duty Officer

    UPDATE: The FLASHBACKS page is back! And, while we were at it, Former Guy: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump -- volume four of the Trump Quartet -- is now available on the HOME PAGE and via the STORE.

  • WAS WONDERING WHY

    Chris | St. Augustine, FL | March 26, 2023

    Nice final panel -- I was wondering why you were running a repeat strip! 

  • CRITIQUING AMERICAN NEWS AND CULTURE

    Bernard W. Tate | Manassas Park, VA | March 26, 2023

    Today's Doonesbury and last Sunday's were absolutely hilarious! it is such a pleasure to see Mr. Trudeau return to critiquing American news and culture! (The "...a classified document." strip was political, but it has become a bipartisan issue.) Keep up the good work...

  • TAKEDOWN

    Bernard W. Tate | Manassas Park, VA | March 12, 2023

    Speaking as a daily news watcher, today's takedown of the TV news is brilliant and spot-on! Thank you...keep up the good work!

  • THE KID

    Carol Marie Malon | Merritt Island, FL | February 26, 2023

    Earl sure has changed from the kid who went to see the Barbara Ann Boopstein festival.

  • SUNDAY'S STRIP

    Brian Harvey | Berkeley, CA | February 19, 2023

    Haha, you got me! Right until the last panel I was scratching my head thinking "since when is someone else the hero of a Red Rascal story?" Jeff and Santos deserve each other.