Garry Trudeau is by far and away my favorite cartoonist. As a teen I would read compendia of his comic strips. To this day, his intelligence, insight and wit continues to buoy me through the worst of times. Like Mencken, Twain, Bierce, and now Stewart and Colbert, he manages to take what is a wholly unfunny condition in the world and find the silver lining that puts a smile on my face and reminds me that nothing in life is worth getting stressed over. And he’s done it day after day for decades. His characters are not frozen in time like a Simpsonian tesser, but have continued to grow and evolve, dealing with life’s curve balls: BD lost a leg in Iraq, Rick lost his job from the Washington Post, of course there was an amazing tribute to Hunter S. Thompson as his doppelgänger Duke’s head exploded (again), and now Mike Doonesbury’s daughter Alex is at MIT, navigating through her own teacup tempests:

Enjoy.

http://www.doonesbury.com/