FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kathy Hilliard | (816) 581-7497 | [email protected] Half a Century of –– All in One Deluxe Package!

For fifty years, the iconic, irreverent, and incomparable Doonesbury has kept readers entertained––and informed––through Pulitzer Prize-winning Garry Trudeau’s deft depiction of our cultural zeitgeist. His acclaimed has been prescient, provocative, and unerringly precise.

To mark the fifty-year milestone, Garry Trudeau’s entire Doonesbury output has now been collected in an exceptional celebratory package: Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury (November 2020, $125). This first edition set includes a flash drive with a searchable archive of every comic strip published, the 224-page Dbury@50 User Manual, which takes readers through each year of the strip, providing historical context and featuring key storylines, and a newly illustrated commemorative poster highlighting more than 50 prominent cast members.

An extraordinarily ambitious project, Dbury@50 is an immersive experience through place and **ALL**ALL BACKGROUNDBACKGROUND BLACKBLACK SHOULDSHOULD BE:BE: time. A “casual walk or deep dive” into five decades of Doonesbury advances one’s appreciation of Trudeau’s genius, and the 40C40C // 30M30M // 30Y30Y // 100K100K sophistication, consistency, and distinctiveness of his creation, which writes “has evolved into a sprawling masterwork.” OR,OR, WHATEVER“RICHWHATEVER“RICH BLACK”ISBLACK”IS Viewed as a whole, Dbury@50 is a journey through our nation’s cultural and historic highlights (and lowlights). It is testimony 18mm that the phenomenon of Doonesbury––created by a talent without peer––is in a class, and is a classic, all its own. 18mm 18mm 18mm FORFOR THISTHIS PRINTER.PRINTER. Dbury @ Dbury @ Dbury @ About the Author

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The USB flash drive includes every comic strip from Doonesbury’s 50-year run in newspapers, as well as a searchable calendar archive, detailed character bios, and a week-by-week description of the strip’s contents.

A full-color commemorative poster The Dbury@50 User Manual tracks each year of the strip, providing historical features brand-new illustrations by G.B. context and featuring key milestones. The manual includes restored Trudeau, highlighting each major cast artwork, a complete Doonesbury bibliography, and a back cover with member in order of appearance. never-before-seen portraits of the author by Andy Warhol.

Soviets boycott Olympics. Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple; 300 killed. Indira Gandhi assassinated. Union Carbide gas leak in India kills 3,000. Bell system broken up. Reagan reelected in landslide. 1984 Apple introduces Macintosh personal computer. The Cosby Show debuts. Band Aid Africa fundraiser “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” released, as are Ghostbusters “I’ve been on a . . . and The Killing Fields. a sabbatical!” ropping out of B-school, his soul “ He said you’re another Streep, only without the in peril, Mike goes into advertising talent. Streep!” — Sid, to Boopsie D(“I just had to be me.”) and joins a firm in the World Trade Center. On his first day, the boss gives him the challenge of a in Porky’s II. “He supports women in the lifetime: “I want you to sell Reagan to black arts.” Pressed by Mark to reveal the most voters.” Ignoring his gut reaction (“This is depraved and shocking thing she’s seen in a test, right? To see if I have any shame?”), La-La Land, Boopsie bares all: “It begins Mike notes that Reagan has ignored all with a Q, and you do it in the shallow end disadvantaged people. Hence the rough of a pool.” draft of an ad campaign: “Reagan. He’s no Though almost half of Reagan’s appointees racist.” have been involved in scandals, when he Also embarking on a new gig, Mark says “They didn’t do it,” he seems to believe Slackmeyer relaunches All Things it, which somehow protects him. As Santa Reconsidered into the wee hours of the puts it, he may be naughty, but he seems night. The NPR call-in show has a small so nice. As a clear-eyed reporter clarifies: but devoted audience, explains engineer “You can’t take what he says seriously, for Spanky Lee James: Eddy, Mel, Rosita, God’s sake.” Veep George H.W. Bush is Col. Harwood, and some guy named criticized for going against his own beliefs “Chickenbone” from Chicago. The previous innumerable times in order to be on Team night the cleaning lady did an hour of bird Reagan. To preserve what remains of his calls. Mark does an in-depth interview political courage, he participates in a formal with Boopsie, who credits Playboy founder White House ceremony and places his Hugh Hefner with helping her get the manhood in a blind trust, to be restored to breakthrough role as “third girl in shower” him only in times of national emergency.

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