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

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Publication Date: January 1986

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Publisher: Flag

Henry Holt and Co.

Brand: Henry Holt

Indicia Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

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Pages: 132

ISBN: 0805000739

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Price: $5.95 USD

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Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)

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Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between September 23rd 1985 and March 29th 1986.

David Stanford was Garry Trudeau’s editor at Holt from 1981 till 1988 (Walker 2010, 95-96).
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Reference:

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

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color covers; black and white interior

Dimensions: 6⅛” w × 8¼” h

Paper Stock: Bond

Binding: Squarebound; trade paperback

Publishing Format: One-shot

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Content Items (6 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Colorist(s): ? (inked figures)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Uncle Duke; Honey; Baby Doc Duvalier

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Pages: 1

Notes: Duvalier's image suggests the appearance of Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones.

De Sève painted, without apparent inked lines, the “watercolor background” (Walker 2010, 100-01).
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Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover

"Death of a Party Animal"

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Honey; Curtis

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Pages: 4

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

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): 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

First Line: Pick you UP?

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.

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Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1985-09-23 - 1986-03-29.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (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).
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Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Inside Doonesbury’s Brain.” Newsweek. October 15, 1990. Quoted in Brian Walker, Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

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

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Notes: Inside back cover

Raoul Duke, Former Envoy to Samoa, Dies in Haiti

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