On this past Sunday, the Doonesbury strip didn't have a story like usual, but was just a collection of drawings of supposed "tweets" from the cartoon's longtime reporter, Roland B. Hedley Jr. They were very funny, like the one which read, "Can confirm that POTUS 'barely knew' John Bolton. Official list of people he knows well is down to three of his five children."
Each tweet said it was sent from "@realRBHJr." And a thought eventually occurred to me -- I wondered if Garry Trudeau had registered that name as a Twitter handle and was using the Sunday strip as a way to promote it. So, I decided to check it out and -- Sure enough, there is a very real Twitter page for the very fictitious "Roland B. Hedley, Jr."!!
As you can see above, the account has been active for a while. But this is a prominent way to bring attention to it. At first glance, it's certainly a bit but. But then, since Trudeau only does a new Doonesbury cartoon once a week on Sunday, this clearly is a way that lets him comment on the news of the day immediately, and also in as easy a way as possible. You can Follow it here.
I've read through a bunch of "Roland B. Hedley Jr.'s" tweets,, and they're very funny, such as one that dealt with professional football players taking a knee during the National Anthem. In his tweet, Hedley reported that an emergency meeting of NFL officials to address the crisis from Trump's "Idiot Second Son" saying that football was dead to him -- "won't be happening anytime soon." And this is Roland's pinned tweet at the top of the page.
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