”His humor is wry, partisan, and caustically combative. The satirical eye behind the comic strip Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau is America’s most mirthful, cutting chronicler of these times.” —Esquire One of the cogitative and comical story lines in Trudeau’s collection, In Search of Cigarette Holder Man, revolves around Duke’s 1960s plot to doctor an evidence photo of…
Grab your Dramamine—it’s Silly Season, and the election handicappers are losing their shirts. Kudos to Rick Redfern for the first bombshell: His evidence that Quayle handlers conspired to silence a federal prisoner causes Dano to wail and editors to bail. Out on the campaign trail, Mark Slackmeyer tracks His Incumbency, causing a stir by serving…
This collection of Doonesbury begins with the long-awaited, never-expected marriage of Honey and Duke: hardly the social event of the season, it takes place in the American Embassy in Beijing and involves a groom who is only in it for the money—the $1 million offered by Donald Trump for the rescue of Ms. Huan, China’s…
"Humor is wry, partisan, and caustically combative. The satirical eye behind the comic strip Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau is America’s most mirthful, cutting chronicler of these times." Esquire "Trudeau has brilliantly vivisected The Bridges of Madison County." New York Daily News Only in the fertile mind of Garry Trudeau would two events look like a cosmic…
Things are shaking on the West Coast, and it’s Sid’s fault. He can’t bring Boopsie and B.D.’s long-avoided nuptials to the "I do" moment quickly enough: her breaking water signals the beginning of another new age. Congratulations, it’s a baby woman! As prequel to this major transition, Desert Storm troopers B.D. and Ray find themselves…
No editorial cartoonist in America wields a sharper pen than Pat Oliphant. Congressional members, Senate candidates, and presidents from past and present bear the black of his ink.When We Can’t See the Forest for the Bushes, boasting the latest cartoons from the last presidential election, shows the "cranky when he wants to be, fiercely independent,…
Pop the smiley-face top off of Prescription for Happiness, and you'll find over thirty of Dr. U. Phoria's prescriptions: quotations, pieces of advice, thoughts, and reflections on happiness from throughout the centuries. Dr. U. Phoria suggests you "Read quotes daily, review, and contemplate." That's easy to do with quotations such as the Dalai Lama's, "If…