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Issue: Read My Lips, Make My Day, Eat Quiche and Die! A Doonesbury Book #[nn]

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Publication Date: March 1989

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Publisher: Flag

Andrews McMeel

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Indicia Publisher: Andrews and McMeel

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Pages: 100

ISBN: 0836218450

UPC/EAN: 978083621845950695

Price: $6.95 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color Cover

Dimensions: 8½” × 9”

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Binding: Softcover; trade paperback

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2 Read My Lips, Make My Day, Eat Quiche and Die! A Doonesbury Book #[nn] [unnamed variant]

Read My Lips, Make My Day, Eat Quiche and Die! A Doonesbury Book #[nn] [Second Printing]

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Content Items (4 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset; Don Carlton (uncredited, see note)

Subject Matter

Character(s): Roland Hedley; Mark Slackmeyer; Rick Redfern; Ron Headrest

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: For details regarding Don Carlton, see Notes for this volume’s comic story, below.

[untitled]

Credits on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset; Don Carlton (uncredited, single panel from daily, see note)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Title pages, indicia etc.

For details regarding Don Carlton, see Notes for this volume’s comic story, below.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Mike Doonesbury; J.J. Caucus; Scot Sloan (cameo); Zonker Harris; Mark Slackmeyer; B.D.; Nicole (cameo); Barbara "Boopsie" Boopstein; Joanie Caucus; Ron Headrest (cameo); Roland Hedley; Jim Andrews (cameo); George Bush [as a symbol]; Skippy (George Bush's evil twin) (as a symbol); Uncle Duke; Honey Huan; Donald Trump (cameo); Benjamin Doonesbury (cameo); Elvis Presley (cameo); Jeff Redfern (cameo); Kim Rosenthal (cameo); Ronald Reagan (as off-panel voice); Nancy Reagan (as off-panel voice); Alice; Elmont; Phil Slackmeyer

First Line: Tomorrow's script

Synopsis: The gang attend the 5th Walden College reunion; Mike is about to have an affair with Nicole, but at exactly the right/wrong moment J.J. announces that she bears his child, and afterwards Mike and J.J. split up; the Cold War ends - newspaper headline: "We Won!"; George Bush joins the Yale secret society "Skull and Bones"; Duke becomes the captain of Donald Trump's cruiser, and engages Elvis Presley to perform; Rick Redfern turns 40; Kim starts high school.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1988-02-08 - 1988-11-13

Miscellaneous

Pages: 90

Notes: Garry Trudeau was assisted by inker Don Carlton (Alter 1990, 66). 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. “Real Life with Garry Trudeau.” Newsweek, October 15. Microfilm.

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

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): George Bush

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Pages: 1

Notes: Nine George Bush quotes on Doonesbury. Back cover.

For details regarding Don Carlton, see Notes for this volume’s comic story, above.