Heckuva Job, Bushie!: A Doonesbury Book

by G.B. Trudeau

Book Overview

Award-winning cartoonist Gary Trudeau returns with a wry and incisive missive from the world of Doonesbury. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740762001
• ISBN13: 9780740762000
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Doonesbury "Heckuva Job Bushie" - WOW

Gary TrHeckuva Job, Bushie!: A Doonesbury Book Gary Trudeau is a fantastic long-time political comic writer who's acerbic wit and incisive commentary grabs the reader. He makes us laugh at the foibles of the character's even as we are apalled at their behavior. This is one of his best! THANKS for such a great read!

Doonesbury, Yes!

As a history teacher/ professor for over 45 years, I've found that Doonesbury always explains what is going on in a way that I can pass on to my students. It doesn't hurt that Trudeau's political bent is also mine. I appreciate his work, have read all his 'comics' and now that our local paper refuses to include it, I read it online daily. Any time I am working up a lecture and have forgotten some of the finer points of an issue, I pull out his older works and revivify my memories. I can't wait for this current election to be over, just to see what he says about it. I'm looking forward to seeing what symbol he uses for the new President and Veep.

How is it possible?

This guy has been funny and touching for four decades now. I can't imagine how he does it, but I have them all and I love them all. You think about Peanuts and you think peaks and long declines, but this strip is as funny as ever and his art is so much stronger. I don't agree with everything, but I enjoy it all.

I just wish...

This book is a delight. I just wish the publisher printed all of the Doonesbury strips. For reasons beyond my comprehension, almost every comic strip reprint book, except from the "comics" related publishers such as Fantagraphics, skip a few strips. Since I can't imagine a prose book skipping pages, I can only assume it is the editor's way of saying, "This is only a comic strip, so a few skipped strips won't really matter." This book skips the strips for the week of September 5, 2005 and the week of November 14, 2005. The Sunday run is complete except, of course, it doesn't reprint rerun strips.

Surprisingly Entertaining!

This collection of Doonesbury comics focuses a lot on B.D.'s attempts to reenter American life after having his leg amputated due to an incident in Iran. That being said, the sheer number of laughs present in these pages is simply amazing. The strips focusing on Alex's search for the right college and Zonker's on-the-job- faux pas at McFriendly's are hilarious, and serve as much-needed counterpoints to the multitude of strips depicting George Bush's incompetence. Overall, this collection was much better than I expected, and I recommend it highly.