SAD!: Doonesbury in the time of Trump by G.B. Trudeau

#SAD!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump by G.B. Trudeau
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It is only fitting that a cartoon who got it's start during the Nixon years is still around to give it's take of the Trump years so far. This is a follow up to previous Trump era book "Yuge!" that came out a couple years ago(seems like a couple of decades in the Donald era). I find that Doonesbury style humor sort of like a thinking person's type of political and society humor. Sort of the NPR or C-Span of cartoons.

The book isn't long and is separated into four parts without any particular obvious theme. They are not in chronological order although they generally start from 2015 and go to 2018. It does focus on the Trump years may of the cartoons are not just about Trump but it also comments on society in general during this era. The previous book on Trump, "Yuge!", covered him back to his early days.

Although the book was funny the humor seem to miss the mark sometimes, at least to me it did. The previous Trump themed book seemed to be a bit more coherent as this one seemed a bit all over the place. It's still a good read if you're trying desperately to find some humor about politics these days. As the author Gary Trudeau noted in his introduction "At this benighted moment, it's all we have.".



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