My friend insists Zonker started out in the strip as a football player, but I find this hard to believe. Is it true?
Yes. Zonker and B.D. first met on the gridiron in a clash of personalities which set the tone for their enduring love/hate relationship. We are pleased to post this initial sequence for your viewing pleasure – shamelessly taking advantage of your timely question to announce the kick-off of Dude: The Big Book of Zonker. Here’s flap copy from this delightful compilation (longtime DTH visitors will recognize the voice of Duty Officer David Stanford): This breathtaking volume boldly, cheerfully, and blankly stares back across the stunningly copacetic life and times of Zonker Harris. From his Californian-American roots to his legendary status as surfer, nanny, and former sun god, his career trajectory has unfailingly carried him ever deeper into the homegrown heart of the American daydream. I am but one dude. -Zonker Harris In all the annals of disengagement, the name Zonker Harris stands nonpareil. For over three decades, Doonesbury’s Prince of Inner Space has consistently upped the ante o