Doonesbury, the brilliant comic strip by Garry Trudeau, and Andrews McMeel Universal, parent company of Andrews McMeel Publishing, have a shared history. In 1970, Trudeau was a Yale student drawing a sports comic strip called Bull Tales for the Yale Daily News. Jim Andrews and John McMeel had just started the Universal Press Syndicate and were looking for comic strips to distribute to newspapers. Andrews read Bull Tales, encouraged Trudeau to create a new national strip, and the rest is comic strip and book history.
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