Phil Slackmeyer

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Phil Slackmeyer was a character in the comic strip Doonesbury.

Phil was Mark Slackmeyer's father. He held a number of jobs during his span in the comic, from a trader at a Wall Street financial firm, to a tobacco company executive, to a member of Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Affairs. He was also imprisoned briefly in the late 1980s for insider trading and later pardoned by former president Ronald Reagan for any crime committed during the Cold War following its demise. He divorced Mark's mother and re-married, having sought a "trophy wife." Phil's religious background is Jewish.

Phil was never close to his son, unable to accept his hippie lifestyle, and later, his homosexuality. The two made peace shortly before his death.

Phil died off-strip sometime in early 2002. Mark was unable to get former friends and family to attend, not even the family's rabbi. The Reverend Scot Sloan officiated the funeral service. Mark hired some drama club teenagers from a local high school to act as mourners.