Alongside writing about the history of Doonesbury and posts about Trudeau’s ongoing work, I’ll also write about Doonesbury’s appearances in other media, starting with this look at Howard Cruses’s review of a Doonesbury collection that ran in Heavy Metal’s April, 1983 issue. Recently, my rereading of Doonesbury intersected with another long-term comics reading project I’m … Continue reading Doonesbury Encounters: Howard Cruse in Heavy Metal, April 1983
Month: September 2017
“Violence is as American as Cherry Pie”: Doonesbury Goes to War, Pt. I
When the curtain falls on Doonesbury, the ensuing retrospectives are bound to focus on Garry Trudeau’s chronicling of the War on Terror and its effects on the men and women who were asked to put their lives and their well-being at risk for a fundamentally flawed set of foreign policies. GBT has used the experiences … Continue reading “Violence is as American as Cherry Pie”: Doonesbury Goes to War, Pt. I
Reading Doonesbury 