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Title: “40: A Doonesbury Retrospective”
Author: G.B. Trudeau
Rank: 67
Blurb: “This monolithic overview of G.B. Trudeau’s landmark newspaper strip is the most comprehensive book on the subject imaginable.”
Review: “It leaves out all the cartoons relating to Watergate, Reagan, Monica, New Orleans, Dubya and other politically charged times.”
Customers Also Bought: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great,” by Rick Meyerowitz
Footnote: No Watergate strips? That would be like selling a Warner Bros. collection without Bugs, Daffy and Road Runner.
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective [Amazon]
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It’s more like a 90s SNL retrospective without the funny stuff… um, which is the same thing.
I have his Yale strips around somewhere.
Yes, why would anyone want to include the cartoons that won him a Pulitzer?
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