The Doonesbury Chronicles

G. B. Trudeau’s The Doonesbury Chronicles (1975, Holt, Rinehart and Winston) is a single-volume collection that compiles the early years of his landmark newspaper strip, Doonesbury. This book gathers the first few years of the series, presenting the debut and formative exploits of its iconic cast of characters as they navigate the social and political landscape of the early 1970s. Trudeau, the strip’s sole writer and artist, is the defining creative force behind this collection, which serves as an essential artifact of a strip that would go on to define a generation of comic satire. As the first major compilation of Doonesbury, it matters as the foundational document of a long-running, Pulitzer Prize-winning series that blended sharp political commentary with character-driven humor.