Death of a Party Animal (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

(1986)

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

"Death of a Party Animal" (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 4 pages (report information)

Pencils

Garry Trudeau

Inks

Don Carlton (uncredited)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Honey; Curtis

Indexer Notes

Half-title page; list of available books; title page; front matter. One panel reproduced overlarge from interior.

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

Doonesbury / comic story / 124 pages (report information)

Script

Garry Trudeau (signed)

Pencils

Garry Trudeau (signed)

Inks

Don Carlton (uncredited, see note)

Letters

Don Carlton (uncredited, see note)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pick you UP?

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Mike Doonesbury; Benjamin "Sal Putrid" Doonesbury; J.J. Caucus; Zonker Harris; Honey Huan; Uncle Duke; Mark Slackmeyer; Rick Redfern; Scot Sloan; Curtis; Baby Doc Duvalier

Synopsis

Sal starts college; Mark and J.J. get an apartment; Zonker wins the lottery, and buys Walden Commune; homelessness increases under Reagan; Uncle Duke dies of a drug overdose, but turns out to have been zombified by Baby Doc; J.J. decorates a rest room ... for free; Scot operates a sanctuary for illegal aliens at the former Walden Commune; Americans are terrified that Communists will attack from Nicaragua.

Reprints

• from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1985-09-23 - 1986-03-29

Keywords

college; dictator; drug abuse; drugs; Haiti; homeless; lottery; newspaper comic strip; zombie

Indexer Notes

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).
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References:

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

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

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

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

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

Raoul Duke, Former Envoy to Samoa, Dies in Haiti (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Garry Trudeau

Inks

Don Carlton (uncredited)

Colors

Peter de Sève (background, uncredited); ? (inked figures)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Opening of article from the January 24, 1986 St. Petersburg Times.