Sunday, November 15, 2020

Nov 18: P&P Live!: G.B. Trudeau — DBURY@50 - in conversation with David Stanford

P&P Live!: G.B. Trudeau — DBURY@50 - in conversation with David Stanford

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series. 

The ultimate Doonesbury package celebrating a half-century of G.B. Trudeau's celebrated comic strip. This limited-edition deluxe set includes: A USB flash drive with all 50 years of Doonesbury comics, including 26 years of Sunday comics available for the first time in digital format. Includes a searchable calendar archive, character biographies, and a week-by-week description of the strip's contents. The Dbury@50 User's Guide, a 224-page wire-bound book taking readers through each year of the strip's storied history, with historical trivia, milestone strips, featured storylines and characters, and much more. A commemorative 16" x 20" poster featuring a grid with new sketches of all the strip's characters.

G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for more than forty years. In addition to cartooning, Trudeau has worked in theater, film, and television. He also has been a contributing columnist for the New York Times op-ed page and later an essayist for Time magazine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane Pauley. They have three grown children.

David Stanford is an independent editor who has worked on books by authors ranging from Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs to Charles Schulz, Art Spiegelman, and G.B. Trudeau. For the past 40+ years he has worked with Garry Trudeau on innumerable fascinating projects, and since1995 has served as Duty Officer of Doonesbury.com. For eight years he oversaw the Doonesbury milblog The Sandbox, editing over 700 posts by more than 150 soldiers, spouses, and caregivers. On Fridays, he works at Oblong Books and Music in Millerton, New York.

Instead of a set ticket price, we have provided a couple different ways for you to attend this event. If you'd like to purchase a copy of the book, you will not be charged an extra fee for a ticket, and we can either ship your copy, or you can retrieve it at one of our stores.

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