Doonesbury On Kerry in 1971

Reader Dennis Lauver has forwarded us three Doonesbury comic strips from October 1971, in which Garry Trudeau painted an unflattering picture of John Kerry. (And I’m not just referring to the fact that in those days, Trudeau was doing his own drawing.) Here is my favorite; click to enlarge:

The Trunk has written about seeing Kerry give a speech at about the same time; the Trunk was fooled, but Trudeau apparently wasn’t. Has he been right since?

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