Gary Trudeau, Yale Class of 1970 and author of the
Doonesbury comic strip, began his career as a college student with his strip published in the campus daily under the name
Bull Tales.
Yale's mascot is the Bulldog. Those comics focus on campus life: football, parties, pursuit of young ladies, campus insurrections, and the changes when Yale first went co-ed in September 1969. When Trudeau graduated and began his
Doonesbury strip in the public press, it was at first largely a recyling of the original
Bull Tales strips, entirely unchanged.
But he did change one pair of
Bull Tales comics, much in the manner of Max's strip above, and his "unstripping" completely obscures the original humor.
The originals of that pair can be found at
http://www.doonesbury.ucomics.com/strip/retro/yale/yale40.htmhttp://www.doonesbury.ucomics.com/strip/retro/yale/yale41.htmKeiva (Bulldog, Class of 1972)