Dunsbury (comic)

Dunsbury (English Doonesbury ) is an American newspaper comic strip created by artist Harry Trudeau . The illustrations in the comic are made using the pencil drawing method. The first story was published on October 26, 1970, in 1983-1984, the comic did not come out, from 1984 to the present time it is published again.

The stories, the action of which unfolds in the comic, represent a broad panorama of the life of various layers of American society; for the comic is characterized by a very large number of characters, one of which is the conditional President of the United States. The main character of the comic is “the average American,” Michael Dunsbury, who, during the release of the comic, “walked the path” from a college student to a retiree. The surname of the protagonist is derived from "Dun" - words from an American school slang, meaning "fuck", and the second part of the name of Charles Pillsbury, roommate Trudeau during his studies at Yale University ^[1] .

The main characters of “Dunsbury” until 1983 were students who exist as if “out of time” and are not aging, but since 1984 Trudeau decided to “continue” the biography of Dunsbury and other characters, therefore, as of 2014, many heroes are significantly “older”.

According to the genre, the comic relates to political and social satire, sometimes contains sharp criticism of current events in a veiled form, and the prototypes of many characters were any real American or foreign political figures. Trudeau’s liberal views are also reflected in the comic. The editorial offices of many newspapers, in connection with its subject matter, made the decision to print comics not in special sections for comics, but directly under political articles.

In 1975, Harry Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for this comic, later he was awarded a number of other prizes.