Doonesbury: You Give Great Meeting, Sid

Doonesbury Annuals #24

by G.B. Trudeau

While Duke hustles Hollywood to creatively finance a film version of the John DeLorean saga, Mike and "the Rev" study home computers, Joanie copes with pregnancy, and reporter Roland Hedley Burton investigates Beirut

Genres: Comics, Humor, Cartoon, Fiction, Comic Strips, Politics

118 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 1983

About the author

Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. In 1970, Trudeau's creation of Doonesbury was syndicated by the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide and is accessible online in association with Slate Magazine at doonesbury.com. In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer, traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 1990. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film, for A Doonesbury Special, in collaboration with John Hubley and Faith Hubley. A Doonesbury Special eventually won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Special Prize in 1978. Other awards include the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1994, and the Reuben Award in 1995. He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. Wiley Miller, fellow comic-strip artist responsible for Non Sequitur, called Trudeau "far and away the most influential editorial cartoonist in the last 25 years." In addition to his work on Doonesbury, Trudeau has teamed with Elizabeth Swados and written plays, such as Rap Master Ronnie and Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy. In 1988, Trudeau joined forces with director Robert Altman for the HBO miniseries Tanner '88 and the Sundance Channel miniseries sequel Tanner on Tanner in 2004. In 1996, Newsweek and The Washington Post speculated that Trudeau wrote the novel Primary Colors, which was later revealed to have been written by Joe Klein. Trudeau wrote the political sitcom Alpha House, starring John Goodman and Bill Murray. The pilot was produced by Amazon Studios and aired in early 2013. Due to positive response Amazon has picked up Alpha House to develop into a full series.

Reviews

[David]

On the 5th tour through the entire Doonescape. It never fails.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coming out in 1983 with strips from the second half of 82 – Duke tries to break into film production with a movie about John DeLorean, and Joanie and Rick Redfern have a kid. Good as ever.

[Craig Werner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best Doonesbury collection of the early Reagan era. Trudeau gives us the President's vacation advisor, Duke trying to hustle up a John DeLorean movie--if you don't know or remember the name, count yourself fortunate--, Reverend Scot Sloan encountering a computer for the first time (that one gave me some flashbacks), Zonker "looking for work", Lacy Davenport sweetly encountering the Gay Alliance. But my favorite sequence is Joanie's pregnancy and Rick's befuddled attempts at being a good supportive male-type person. Love the final strip featuring the first appearance of the not-yet-named JJ.

[Gordon Joly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good stuff, Sid.

[Kyrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Doonesbury and I find Trudeau's liberal humor to be really funny.