The Weed Whisperer

(2015)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages (report information)

Pencils

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau]

Inks

Todd Pound (uncredited)

Colors

?

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Weed Whisperer

Characters

Zonker; Zipper

Indexer Notes

Half-title page, list of available books, title page, front matter, quote from Martha Stewart

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 170 pages (report information)

Script

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau]

Pencils

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau] (signed); Cabu (one strip); Tignous (one strip); Honoré (one strip); Wolinski (one strip); Charb (one strip)

Inks

Don Carlton (uncredited, see notes); Todd Pound (uncredited, see notes); Cabu (one strip); Tignous (one strip); Honoré (one strip); Wolinski (one strip); Charb (one strip)

Colors

George Corsillo (uncredited, Sundays, see notes); ? (dailies)

Letters

Don Carlton (uncredited, see notes); ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

So as I say in my book, we need to take another look at self-deportation!

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Zonker; Zipper; Mike; Kim; Alex; Leo [Toggle]; Eli; Danny; Mark; B.D.; Boopsie; Sam; Joanie; Rick; Jeff [Red Rascal] [Sorkh Razil]; President King; Roland Hedley; Bernie; Trff; Senator Elizabeth Warren's staff; Drew; Mia; Mel; Duke; Earl; Ray

Synopsis

Alex receives her doctorate from M.I.T., and gives birth to twins during graduation; Joanie works for Elizabeth Warren; Jeff has writer’s block; Zonker and Zipper grow artisanal marijuana in Colorado; Alex hires a nanny; Sam looks into colleges; Walden University goes for-profit.

Reprints

• from Doonesbury daily and Sunday (Universal Uclick) 2011-02-13, 2013-01-20 - 2015-06-14

Keywords

Colorado; M.I.T.; marijuana; MIT; newspaper comic strip; twins

Indexer Notes

The Sunday strip on page 160 appears not to have been distributed for publication in newspapers. This may have been due to Mitt Romney’s January 2015 decision not to seek the Republican Party’s 2016 nomination for president of the United States (the strip may have been written and drawn before Romney’s decision was reported).

Garry Trudeau was assisted by inker Don Carlton (Alter 1990, 66). Carlton’s association with Trudeau began in the early 1970s, and his responsibilities grew to include lettering of the strip. The association endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31). Trudeau was later assisted by inker Todd Pound (Trudeau 2015). Pound reported that he inked the cover of this collection (Pound 2016), and that the collection features about one year’s worth of his Sunday inking work (Pound 2021).

In 2001, George Corsillo became the regular colorist of Doonesbury Sunday strips (Walker 2010, 183). As of July 2016, Corsillo was continuing to color Sundays (Sepulveda 2016).

Since 2008, the strip has been lettered using a custom computer font based on Carlton’s hand-lettering; computer-lettered strips inked by Carlton were also lettered by Carlton (Walker 2010, 241).
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References:

Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Real Life with Garry Trudeau.” Newsweek, October 15. Microfilm.

Pound, Todd. 2016. “Yuge.” Todd Pound (blog), Nov. 5. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://www.toddpound.com/post/2016/11/05/yuge.

Pound, Todd. 2021. “Doonesbury Book Covers.” Todd Pound. Accessed June 28, 2023. https://www.toddpound.com/illustration?lightbox=dataItem-ijyt375y.

Sepulveda, David. 2016. Local ​“Monster” Puts the Color into ​“Doonesbury.” New Haven (CT) Independent, July 21. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/trudeau_corsillo_.

Trudeau, Garry. 2015. “45 Years of Doonesbury: A Letter from Garry Trudeau.” GoComics (blog), Oct. 25. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://www.gocomics.com/blog/1742/45-years-of-doonesbury-a-letter-from-ga….

Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

blank page(s) / 3 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau]

Inks

Todd Pound (uncredited)

Colors

?

Characters

Zipper

Keywords

Marijuana

Indexer Notes

Back cover