Day One Dictator: More Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism by G.B. Trudeau - ★★★★★

Just such a tweet. Just such a treat to read Doonesbury. I've been reading Doonesbury for so long, and I've read so many of the old books, and usually you have to take yourself back to it, but this one day old dictator is so fresh he hasn't even become dictator yet that's how fresh it is. It's a bit sad to see so many of the characters that I had loved now with gray hair, but so much respect to the cartoonist Gary Trudeau and writer for his incredible work spanning the lifetimes of these characters, to see characters that I've seen grow up in the strip, suddenly have children becoming middle aged, married to other characters that I've seen in the strip. So much longevity, so much complexity, and all the while, he's perfectly serving these characters through life, having them change and grow through their jobs, through Mike, through the guy at the radio show, so many just characters. He's perfectly saddering Saturn, satirizing our horrible political environment, and with such logic and clarity that only a great satirist has been truly a Mark Twain. Gary Trudeau, a Mark Twain. What an honor it is to read Doonesbury. I hope that there'll be another collection, and I hope that the Trump doesn't put him in jail. I don't know if that's going to happen or not, but I look forward to as many more Doonesbury cartoons about Trump politics and the wonderful characters of the Doonesbury sbury world. I thoroughly enjoyed. Day one dictator.

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