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Welcome to the Nerd Farm! A Doonesbury Book

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In Kindle editions of previous volumes, like Duke 2000, you could enlarge it so that one strip at a time could be on the screen. In this one, the published hardlinked 3 strips at a time, so there is NO way to enlarge it. You're looking at 3 strips, super-small, unreadable.

More comic strips should be out for Kindle!

This Doonesbury Book is a collection from the "strips" of 2006.It almost seems that Trudeau is just trying to meet his commitments to his loyal fans.It deals with several of the things that have been and continue to go on.There is very little in the way of new situations,or characters.All the characters are ageing and when you really get down to it there is little in the way of humor or the great satire we loved in the strip.
A while back,Trudeau took an extended vacation and the strip has been somewhat lackluster ever since.He seems to be tired of the war scene,and is satisfied with commenting on things like battle scars and physocoligical problems.America has been very turbulent since the election in 2008; and Trudeau doesn't even seem to want to deal with it;other than a few passing comments.All the familiar characters like Duke,Lacy,Joanie, Redfern,Zonker,BD,and on and on are just getting rehashed,but with less vigor and imagination.Somehow ,I get the sense that Trudeau has turned the strip over to underlings to "keep it going",but they don't know what to do with it.The strip was always coming up with new and imaginative artwork and inovations;but there hasn't been much in that department either.
It's no secret that the strip has always leaned to the left;but that didn't stop Trudeau from coming up with great satire during Carter's and Clinton's presidencies;but it seems that Obama and those around him have given Trudeau something he just is unable or maybe uninterested in dealing with.
Nonetheless;a lot of us have been longtime fans of the strip,and keep hoping for something to happen that will put the old life back into the strip.When we see that a good Icon for Obama appears and people like Pelosi,Franks,Axelrod,Rev.Wright,Ayres,Franken,take their place in today's political satire;we'll know Trudeau hasn't lost interest.Lord knows there is plenty to work with.

It's so fun to gift Doonesbury to family and friends. Nerd Farm is another great read, a good chuckle for teens and adults.

Wonderful stuff from one of the most important American writers. (Yes, I said "writers"!) Garry Trudeau has been at this his entire adult life, and it just gets better and better. Following multiple story lines, his latest assemblage is packed with funny and revealing strips. Can't be recommended highly enough!

After the great compilation "Heckuva Job, Bushie!" I was hoping for more of the same with "Welcome to the Nerd Farm." While "Nerd" features some strong strips dealing with aging parents, kids in college, and Bush's continued refusal to recognize the problems with our war in Irag, it also features a weak set of strips dealing with Mark's 'divorce' from Chase, and wastes a good amount of time on the status of Uncle Duke while he's in a semi-comatose period.

I recommend the collection, but not as much as I did 'Bushie!'

I have been reading Doonesbury since the first book I found in "Shakespeare and Co" in the late 70s in Paris. The latest one about life in college now is great, as usual. G Trudeau should publish more often and his books are hard to find in bookstores this is why Amazon is so useful.

Trudeau is one of the amazing artists, historians, and commentators of our age. Pick up any of his compilations and you get an accurate slice of history and culture from the past 30 years or more. His characters age and grow with the times, and if you've followed them, as I have, over the years you'll start to feel they have a life of their own.

This strip rocks. I shudder to think how much it would mean to me if I were an American baby-boomer university graduate.

I might go as far as saying that since Schulz died, this is the best newspaper strip out there by far, to my taste.