Welcome to the Nerd Farm (A Doonesbury Book)

(2007)

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

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

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Welcome to the Nerd Farm!

Indexer Notes

Half-title page; list of available books; title page; front matter; quote from Jerome Wiesner

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Doonesbury / comic story / 146 pages (report information)

Script

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau] (signed)

Pencils

Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau] (signed)

Inks

Don Carlton (uncredited, see notes)

Colors

George Corsillo (uncredited, see notes)

Letters

Don Carlton (uncredited, see notes); typeset (two Sunday strips)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What is it, Josh?

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Mike; Alex; B.D.; Zipper; Drew; Mother Doonesbury; George W. Bush; Scott; Elias; Ray

Synopsis

Alex enters M.I.T.; Mike brings his mother to live in Seattle; Mike’s mother “escapes” back to Oklahoma; George W. Bush doesn’t understand the War on Terror; B.D. speaks to Scott’s hopeless class on ethics; Earl and Duke are lobbyists; B.D. takes part in group therapy; Melissa works to recover from Military Sexual Trauma; Alex disdains Zipper; Vermonters want to impeach Bush.

Reprints

• from Doonesbury daily and Sunday (Universal Press Syndicate) XXXX-XX-XX - XXXX-XX-XX [selected strips; Sunday strips are in color]

Keywords

Aging; college; counseling; ethics; lobbyist; M.I.T.; M.S.T.; Massachusetts; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Military Sexual Trauma; MIT; MST; P.T.S.D.; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; President; PTSD; senior citizen; veteran

Indexer Notes

Garry Trudeau was assisted by inker Don Carlton (Alter 1990). 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).

In 2001, George Corsillo became the regular colorist of Doonesbury Sunday strips (Walker 2010, 183).
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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.

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"Life comes full circle as Gen-Nexter Alex heads for college, boldly opting for MIT, 'The Nerd Farm,' where thirty-hour study binges are crammed into twenty-four-hour days." (Table of Contents: 6)

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Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover