Red Rascal's War

Readers and critics were wowed by G. B. Trudeau's epic masterpiece 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, and they'll rejoice when they see this beautiful follow-up volume. Featuring an innovative format and an all-new collection of strips, Red Rascal's War is the first all-color Doonesbury book ever. Both Trudeau and his fans have followed Doonesbury's ever-expanding cast through four decades of cultural turbulence and change. With its arresting cover and rich interior, Red Rascal's War showcases the most recent additions to a body of work the New York Times admiringly refers to as "e;a sprawling masterwork."e;"e;[Trudeau is] Dickensian in his range of characters,"e; writes Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books. "e;Trudeau has just kept improving, year after year, in part because he stays so close to changing events. . . . He has never been better than in the last six years."e;From the exploits of Afghan legend-in-chief Sorkh Razil to the pipe dreams of Malibu's top nanny Zonker Harris, and from the "e;no more chill pills"e; intervention by Obama's aides to the way-cool love of a headbanging war vet and his MIT-grad gal, Doonesbury marches wildly on. "e;What else is guaranteed to make you think, feel nostalgic, and laugh out loud at least once a page?"e; --Karen Holt, O Magazine