While a junior in college, Garry Trudeau took samples of a prospective comic strip to Yale Daily News executive editor Reed Hundt, who told him "They're all right. We publish pretty much anything." On September 30, 1968, Bull Tales first appeared in the student paper, and within a few weeks attracted the attention of Jim Andrews, co-founder and editor of Universal Press Syndicate (which at that point consisted of a Fifth Avenue maildrop). Renamed after its principal character, Doonesbury was launched as UPS's first syndicated feature on October 26, 1970.
Below are links to the original, pre-syndication Bull Tales strips.
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