{"product_id":"the-doonesbury-chronicles-used-paperback-g-b-trudeau","title":"The Doonesbury Chronicles (Used Paperback) - G.B. Trudeau","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1975, for the first time in the history of journalism awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to a comic strip: Garry Trudeau's nationally syndicated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoonesbury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarried today by over 350 North American newspapers, \u003ci\u003eDoonesbury\u003c\/i\u003e's unique blend of social-political satire, cartoon humor, and comic-strip continuity has won a following both improbably diverse and fanatically devoted. In Washington, where \u003ci\u003eDoonesbury\u003c\/i\u003e is required reading, requests for original strips have come from White House aides, senators, congressmen, and—remarkably—most of the major Watergate conspirators whose maladventures gave the strip grist for some of its most celebrated moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo loyal has been this following that on occasions when \u003ci\u003eDoonesbury\u003c\/i\u003e was suddenly notable for its absence from a paper following a satirical thrust that had somehow offended editors' notions of comic-strip propriety, readers have always managed to protest it back onto the page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Doonesbury Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e marks the first appearance of Michael J. Doonesbury and cohorts, and is their first collection to include Sunday color pages. In all, 572 strips are presented, as selected by Garry Trudeau and encompassing the full \u003ci\u003eDoonesbury\u003c\/i\u003e canon, from its cozy campus origins at the frazzled end of the sixties through the stumbling first half of the seventies. Conducting us along the way is a motley though always redeemable cast that includes a student radical turned disc jockey, an immaculately dense but nonetheless charismatic quarterback, a nature freak who has nightmares about Mark Spitz, and a runaway housewife who ends up as a Berkeley law student by way of the Walden Commune Day-Care Center. For those hooked on Trudeau, as well as those still somehow deprived, for giving or hoarding, \u003ci\u003eThe Doonesbury Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and Recession-proof treasure of a book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0909CCH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reach Literacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54763832836320,"sku":"Humor","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/0794\/2562\/files\/77690.jpg?v=1788985365","url":"https:\/\/reachareader.com\/products\/the-doonesbury-chronicles-used-paperback-g-b-trudeau","provider":"Reach Literacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}