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Doonesbury continues to entertain, inspire, and provoke with its unique blend of social commentary, humor, and political satire. Chronicling the millennial state of the nation through the interconnected lives of its large cast of characters, the strip offers unusual perspectives on the usual suspects, and asks impertinent questions on the pertinent subjects of the day. In Duke 2000: Whatever It Takes Trudeau's Pulitzer Prize-winning strip tracks the end of an Internet start-up and the show more beginning of a gay marriage, the revival of an aging rocker's career -- and the complete reinvention of the irrepressible Uncle Duke. In a presidential primary campaign attracting the likes of Warren Beatty and Donald Trump, perhaps it was not surprising that the former ambassador to China decided to throw his bandana into the ring. show lessTags
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Follows the president candidates of the 2000 American presidential election.
The election - as Honey says it - lowered the bar for political participation to the ground.
Duke runs for president with the agenda "Compasionate Fascism" aided by Honey, Mini D, Honey and Zonker.
The campaigns of Donald Trump, Elizabeth Dole and George Bush are followed by Roland Hedley - content provider for Yap network.
Mike becomes a dotcom millionaire and is ruined by Microsoft when he won't sell out and is married on a plane after much difficulty.
The collection is as humorous as all the Doonesbury comics. Despite the fact that it is current political comments, few of the comics seems dated several years later, and some are in fact easier to understand for show more someone who aren't keeping up-to-date with American affairs. show less
The election - as Honey says it - lowered the bar for political participation to the ground.
Duke runs for president with the agenda "Compasionate Fascism" aided by Honey, Mini D, Honey and Zonker.
The campaigns of Donald Trump, Elizabeth Dole and George Bush are followed by Roland Hedley - content provider for Yap network.
Mike becomes a dotcom millionaire and is ruined by Microsoft when he won't sell out and is married on a plane after much difficulty.
The collection is as humorous as all the Doonesbury comics. Despite the fact that it is current political comments, few of the comics seems dated several years later, and some are in fact easier to understand for show more someone who aren't keeping up-to-date with American affairs. show less
Duke is running for President and so is Trump. Mike's Dot.com company tanks losing millions and millions for its investors. Alex's web-cam show is successful.
Duke is running for President and so is Trump. Mike's Dot.com company tanks losing millions and millions for its investors. Alex's web-cam show is successful.
Mark and Chase get married after a tour de farce of glitches. Roland Burton Hedley becomes an internet news provider (Yap.com). Jeff Redfern takes off for Walden College, where he and Zipper become roomies. Mike takes his internet company public, and it tops out at $350 million. Duke announces for President. Alice and Elmont lose their inheritance day-trading and are back on the streets. Mike's company tanks when Microsoft offers their product free. Duke hires Boopsie as "arm candy" for his campaign, and later Zonker joins.
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Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau was born in New York City in 1948, and raised in Saranac Lake, New York. He attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor's of Arts and an M.F.A. in graphic design. He is an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau premiered Doonesbury in 1970, and show more it now appears in nearly 1400 daily and Sunday newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. His work has been collected in nearly 60 books, which have sold over 7 million copies. In 1975, Trudeau became the first comic strip artist ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. In 1989, he was a finalist for a second Pulitzer. Trudeau went on tp write and co-direct the animated film, "A Doonesbury Special", for NBC in 1977. The film was nominated for an Academy Award and received the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Collaborating with composer Elizabeth Swados in 1983, Trudeau wrote the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Doonesbury", for which he was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. A cast album of the show, recorded for MCA, received a Grammy nomination. Trudeau collaborated again with Swados in 1984, on "Rap Master Ronnie", a satirical revue about the Reagan Administration. Over the next four years the show was continuously updated for numerous productions around the country. A filmed version of Rap Master Ronnie, featuring Jim Morris, the Smothers Brothers, and Carol Kane was broadcast on Cinemax in 1988. In 1988, Trudeau wrote and co-produced, with director Robert Altman, HBO's critically acclaimed "Tanner '88", a satiric look at that year's presidential election campaign. The show won awards both in the U.S. and abroad, including the gold medal for Best Television Series at the Cannes Television Festival, and Best Imported Program from the British Broadcasting Press Guild. "Tanner '88" also earned an Emmy - as well as four ACE award nominations. Ben & Jerry's introduced "Doonesberry," a sorbet made with raspberries and blueberries, in 1996 in honor of the cartoon series. Since 1999 Trudeau has also worked with Starbucks to offer "Dbury@Sbucks," a series of limited edition Doonesbury products that raise money for local literacy programs. m In February of 2000 Trudeau, working with Dotcomix, launched Duke2000, a presidential campaign and website featuring a real-time 3-D streaming-animation character. Nearly 30 campaign videos were posted on the site, and Ambassador Duke was interviewed by satellite on "Live on Larry King" and 60 local TV news programs. Trudeau has received honorary degrees from Yale, Colgate, Williams, Duke and 18 other universities. He has been inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has contributed articles to Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New Yorker, New York, and The Washington Post. For five years he was an occasional columnist for the New York Times op-ed page, and is currently a contributing essayist for Time magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing and drawings Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- PN6728 .D65 .T7265 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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