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Nationally syndicated comic strip with a conservative viewpoint drawn by Bruce Tinsley. It began in 1994 and stars the eponymous duck, "a seasoned, rumpled ex-newspaper reporter" who "loves to question his colleagues' more liberal-minded views about current affairs," according to the strip's website, www.mallardfillmore.com.
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