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A Doonesbury Retrospective
Hardcover, 695 pages, Andrews McMeel Pub, List Price: $100 | purchase
Book Summary
A 40-year retrospective includes more than 1,800 carefully selected strips of the popular newspaper comic, interspersed with essays by the author in which he reflects on the characters, in a compendium that includes a four-page foldout that details the complex relationships between the comic strip's more than 40 major characters.
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