Digging into the Newspapers.com archives unearths more than 24,000 matches for “Gary Trudeau” + “Doonesbury”. There’s thousands of syndicated comics that have run for years in various newspapers that still bear the Gary Trudeau name. Surely that’s enough time to catch a “typo”, or at the very least receive letters from pedantic readers eager to point out the spelling “error”.

Gary Trudeau x 2. December 1999.

Or how about this article written for the Washington Post entitled, “I hate Charlie Brown: An appreciation”. The byline is shown twice, and both instances his name appears as Gary Trudeau. A mind-boggling error for an article penned by the man himself.

GARRY Trudeau?

There’s just so many instances of GARY, I had to verify, and sure enough his name’s always been ubiquitously, Garry Trudeau. It’s the first time in 40 some-odd-years that I see it spelled that way—a head-scratcher for sure!