Doonesbury. Well, here I am thawing out my date at an incredibly romantic movie – Historic Print
![Doonesbury. Well, here I am thawing out my date at an incredibly romantic movie, 1970 Nov. 10 [publication date] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a1/a16e71b507e5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Doonesbury. Well, here I am thawing out my date at an incredibly romantic movie comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Doonesbury. Well, here I am thawing out my date at an incredibly romantic movie
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A frozen-solid date at an incredibly romantic movie is the joke here: a Doonesbury strip in which the narrator is still thawing out his companion. This original drawing is dated November 10, 1970, when Garry Trudeau's strip was new to newspapers and built around college students and their social lives. Trudeau worked in ink, using white-out for corrections and blue pencil for layout notes, marks that show how a strip was prepared before printing. The Library received the drawing as a gift in 1988, so the original art survives alongside the published version.
| Created / published | 1970 Nov. 10 [publication date] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper : ink, white out, and blue pencil with overlay. |
| Genre | Comics 1970.Drawings 1970. |
| Notes | Gift; Garry Trudeau; 1988; (DLC/PP-1988:078.2). |
| Subjects | Courtship--1970. Motion picture theaters--1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,599 × 3,939 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226144 |
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