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Issue: An Especially Tricky People (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1983

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Variant: Fifth Printing

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Publisher: Flag

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Pages: 132

ISBN: 0030206812

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Price: $5.25 USD

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Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
2 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between December 22nd 1975 and June 25th 1976.

Dimensions of fifth printing are 6⅛” × 8¼”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with “The Wreck of the ‘Rusty Nail.’” List of “In Large Format” books ends with “The People’s Doonesbury.”

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Format

Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: Color cover; Black and White interior

Dimensions: Oversized mass paperback book (5⅛” × 7⅞”, then 6⅛” × 8¼”)

Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; book paper interior; Newsprint interior

Binding: trade paperback

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2 An Especially Tricky People (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [unnamed variant]

An Especially Tricky People (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Fifth Printing]

An Especially Tricky People (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Second Printing]

An Especially Tricky People (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Third Printing]

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Content Items (3 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Garry Trudeau [as G. B. Trudeau]

Inker(s): Garry Trudeau ?; Don Carlton ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Doonesbury

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Uncle Duke; MacArthur; Joanie Caucus; Virginia "Ginny" Slade; Honey Huan (first appearance); Andy Lippincott; Clyde; Mike Doonesbury; Zonker Harris; Ellie; Howie; Jimmy Thudpucker; Kim Rosenthal; Mr. Rosenthal; Mrs. Rosenthal; Mark Slackmeyer

Synopsis: Uncle Duke becomes ambassador to China and gets an interpreter, Honey; Ginny runs for U.S. Congress with Joanie as her campaign manager; The Patty Hearst trial begins; Kimmy speaks in Jimmy Carter sound bites.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1975-12-22 - 1976-06-25.

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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References:

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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