This was just published 8/23, I first saw it an hour ago and my jaw dropped.
I don't regularly follow the strip. I don't know the wife (or gf?)'s name, or how long she's been in the strip, or for how long she's had that 'do. But I
do know exactly where Garry Trudeau copied her look from! Is he a fan? Secretly even signed up here somewhere? Gotta wonder...