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Tricky Dick Nixon and Little Danny Quayle. Jimmy Swaggert and Frank Sinatra. Donald Trump, Neil Bush, John Mitchell; O. J., Newt, Rush, hippies, punks, and the Black Panthers - Garry Trudeau has pissed off a distinguished list of hypocrites, windbags, and phonies in a quarter century of inking Doonesbury. Now, all of his bodacious and biting bubble-bursting is available on the CD-ROM Flashbacks - 25 Years of Serious Fun, which includes more than 9,000 panels from the first comic strip ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Though the full-color Sunday strips are blurrier than a Monet, this well-organized CD-ROM is easy to use, and search
Tricky Dick Nixon and Little Danny Quayle. Jimmy Swaggert and Frank Sinatra. Donald Trump, Neil Bush, John Mitchell; O. J., Newt, Rush, hippies, punks, and the Black Panthers - Garry Trudeau has pissed off a distinguished list of hypocrites, windbags, and phonies in a quarter century of inking Doonesbury. Now, all of his bodacious and biting bubble-bursting is available on the CD-ROM Flashbacks - 25 Years of Serious Fun, which includes more than 9,000 panels from the first comic strip ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Though the full-color Sunday strips are blurrier than a Monet, this well-organized CD-ROM is easy to use, and searchable by both characters and plot lines.
Highlights include: a journey through Reagan's brain - "a storehouse of images of an idyllic America with 5-cent Cokes, Burma Shave signs, and hard-working white people" (28 October 1980); Mr. Butt's giddy efforts to get kids hooked on cigarettes (11 June 1989); "Marvelous" Mark Slackmeyer's first feckless forays cruising gay bars (7 June 1994); Zonker Harris's pursuit of the perfect tan; and, best of all, the drug-crazed connivances of Uncle Duke, the gonzo dirtbag who loves nothing better than ingesting "an extract made from the pineal gland of male adolescent iguanas" before addressing the Young Republicans (16 August 1977). This disc is a reminder of the political sophistication that made Doonesbury stand out on pages that were long dominated by the blather of Beetle Bailey and the Family Circus. Doonesbury's achievement is towering. After its 1971 début, it tackled racism, feminism, premarital sex, and AIDS. Through its twisting plot lines and unexpected character developments, the strip is one of our best records of the sea of changes that have swamped American culture during the last quarter century.
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Manufacturer: Mindscape
EAN: 0024294118654 UPC: 024294118654
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