Editing Doonesbury (section)

===After the hiatus===
The strip resumed some time after the events in the musical, with further changes having taken place after the end of the musical's plot. Mike, Mark, Zonker, B.D., and Boopsie were all now graduates; B.D. and Boopsie were living in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[California]], where B.D. was a third-string quarterback for the [[Los Angeles Rams]], and Boopsie was making a living from walk-on and cameo roles. Mark was living in Washington, D.C., working for [[National Public Radio]]. Michael and J.J. had gotten married, and Mike had dropped out of business school to start work in an advertising agency in New York City. Zonker, still not ready for the "real world", was living with Mike and J.J. until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke's "[[Jean-Claude Duvalier|Baby Doc]] College" in [[Haiti]].

Prior to the hiatus, the strip's characters had aged only slightly. But when Trudeau returned to ''Doonesbury'', the characters began to age in something close to real time, as in ''[[Gasoline Alley (comic strip)|Gasoline Alley]]'' and ''[[For Better or for Worse]]'', Since then, the main characters' ages and career developments have tracked those of standard media portrayals of [[baby boomers]], with jobs in advertising, law enforcement, and the [[dot-com boom]]. Current events are mirrored through the original characters, their offspring (the "second generation"), and occasional new characters.

Garry Trudeau received the [[National Cartoonist Society]] Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1994, and their [[Reuben Award]] for 1995 for his work on the strip.