Trudeau Puts Doonesbury On Hiatus, Except For Sundays. Thanks For Nothing, Alpha House!

Well, the good news is that Gary Trudeau has a home run in Alpha House, the Washington Beltway comedy series he created for Amazon for on-line distribution. The bad news is, because of Alpha House‘s success, he will be putting his long running comic strip, Doonesbury, on a long term, open-ended hiatus in order to focus on his new politically satiric property, according to The Washington Post.

Say it ain’t so, Gary!

“I’ve done the strip for 43 years — 45 if you include the college edition [at Yale] — and I’m ready for an extended break,” Trudeau, 65, tells Comic Riffs.

In making the move, the New York-based cartoonist takes nothing for granted: “A hiatus comes with uncertainty, of course: I can’t assume I’ll be welcomed back a year or two from now.”