New Releases by G. B. Trudeau

"This collection of Doonesbury cartoons examines the arrival of the Reagan administration and witnesses Zonker''s retirement from professional tanning and the marriage of Rick and Joanie." -- Google Books

"An instant biography of the Great Gonzo, John Connally''s seminar on Free Enterprise Seminar Training, and Mike Doonesbury''s support for the Anderson presidential campaign are included among this collection." -- Amazon.com

Satirizes the television coverage of Afghanistan and the 1980 presidential election, the American obsession with suntans, the Billy Carter affair, and the trial of the Gang of Four.

The Washington advent of Senator and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, the latest coming of Ted Kennedy, and the defection of Secretary of Symbolism Duane Delacourt to the high-ozone camp of Jerry Brown are chronicled in Trudeau''s cartoons.

Duke embarks on a secret mission to Iran for an American oil company, Doonesbury and friends have a costume party to celebrate the end of the decade, and a small town is ravaged by a media event

Follows the lives of Doonesbury characters as they receive quick lessons in practical politics.

This book contains cartoons from 1978 and 1979.

"The winds of political change blow strong and strange in this latest serving of Doonesbury adventures. Freshly franchised Congresswoman Lacey Davenport arrives in Washington with her ornithologist husband and with the unlikely staff support of law graduate Joanie Caucus, plunges into the Korean Lobby investigation. Uncle Duke is phased out of his envoyship to China, determined not to understand what Leonard Woodcock may have that he doesn''t. And the new administration adds to the cabinet a Secretary of Symbolism, whose string of coups (the call in show, the limo cuts, Amy''s trusty governess, etc.) is capped by the first Human Rights Awards Banquet. Once again, no one is spared in what may well be the choicest collection yet by the only comic strip cartoonist ever to win the Pulitzer Prize." -- Back cover

A collection of "Doonesbury" comic strips originally published in newspapers.

"The film''s script, by Garry Trudeau, and stills from the animation by the Hubleys, are accompanied by numerous sketches by the collaborators showing the evolution into the final TV version. In addition, Trudeau''s marginal notes provide rare insight into the process of artistic animation and "Doonesbury'' itself"--Page 2 of book jacket.

"Newsbreaks come in various sizes and flavors in this latest serving of Doonesbury adventures. There is, for one example, the small but poignant voice of ''Son of Arnold and Mary Leiberman'' hoping to be heard by the all-star human interest journalist at the New York Daily News. For another, we have the author of that cult best seller Jogger Agnonistes ready to spill his innermost secrets on running for pain and profit. And from the gatehouse of the Fourth Estate comes the voice and face of Roland Burton Hedley Jr. with not one but two self-anchored reports: What the typical college student is like these days, and the president''s trip of many nations (AKA brief encounters with the third world.) Segueing with Joanie Caucus''s diligent rakings in the muck of the Korean Lobby investigation, and Uncle Duke''s venture into apricot farming as a toehold on the Laetrile market, there is scandal here for the most jaded of media freaks ...not to mention the unjaded legions of Doonesbury followers." -- Page 4 of cover

Relates the experiences of Uncle Duke when he becomes America''s envoy to China and follows Virginia Slade''s campaign for a Congressional seat from California.

"Under most circumstances these days law board scores of 760 and impeccable feminist credentials might be expected to insure the swift acceptance of a candidate into law school. But when day-care director Joanie Caucus applies to half dozen top law schools, the best she can manage is inclusion on a couple of waiting lists. As the spring weeks drag by, the mail brings in one rejection slip after another, and Joanie is caught in an agonizing limbo, a circumstance shared by her creator who for reasons of literary predeterminism was compelled to ignore the dozen real-life acceptances Joanie concurrently received from sympathizing law schools across the country. Happily, the final episodes of this new Doonesbury collection bring a last minute reprieve and the tenacious lady from Walden finds herself on her way to a new life and career." -- Back cover

No one can feel the pulse of the world like Garry Trudeau, whose satrical look at the 1960''s and early 1970s is a real delight.

The Doonesbury cartoon character Joanie teaches the girls in her day care center some of the concepts of feminism.

Satire.