Posted on 09/11/2011 9:07:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
In ‘Doonesbury,’ Palin Biography ‘The Rogue’ Gets A Comic-Strip Tease
Michael Cavna September 11, 2011
It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead.
The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in Wasilla and moving in next door to Palin as if moving in on his prey. The former Alaska guv sounded ticked. McGinniss sounded tickled. And much of the public chose sides over all this northern overexposure.
And then there was a fictional twist that McGinniss never saw coming.
In this surreal world, a stranger — faux Fox News reporter Roland Hedley from the comic strip “Doonesbury” — moves in next to McGinniss. The snooping khaki-clad interloper sets up surveillance. Perhaps most unnerving, the stranger begins hectoring the author with back-porch taunts: “Moving next to Palin was seriously creepy,” he says. “How does it feel to be stalked, stalker?”
But the fictional character’s arrival in McGinniss’s real life marked the beginning of a beautiful relationship. This month, Doonesbury’s creator, Garry Trudeau, has partnered with McGinniss for a cartoon collaboration. (“A wild rumpus, as Joe put it,” Trudeau says.)
Check out the funnies Monday, and you’ll see Hedley reading excerpts from McGinniss’s bio, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” ahead of its Sept. 20 release date.
“You know what she was?” says a member of Palin’s security detail in the excerpt Hedley reads. “A housewife who happened to be governor. I’d fly cross-country with her many times and she’d spend the whole trip looking at People magazine.”
From her preference for gossip tabs to her employment practices, from parenting to personal romance, these are among...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Doonesbury is the dryest must unfunny comic ever written
WHAT?
Maybe Sarah should have been reading A Post American World - or whatever it was Obama was carrying around - and then the intellectuals would have deemed her fit for our highest office.
Gary Trudeau-left wing loony author is husband of former NBC anchor Jane Pauley
“I’d say her strategy flows from an unusually deep need to get the most attention for the longest period of time”
This statement by Trudeau exemplifies very well the fact that a life spent contemplating the personalities of comic strip characters obscures most, if not all, ability to judge real people.
Bet his book gets rave reviews by liberal book reviewers and is a complete flop. Joe the stalker finds someone who gossips about Palin liking to read about gossip.
Cindie
In fairness, I have to say that some of his storylines are funny, but when he wanders into politics, I don’t read him.
Last comic I would ever ever read. I find absolutely nothing entertaining about it.
Agreed.
Doonesbury ? Where do they run that tired relic ? It must be on the same page as Terry and the Pirates or Sad Sack .Onward into the past .
It was lefty but it was also funny. Remember when Milo’s closet nightmare monster gets switched for Reagan’s nightmares?
Milo has Fidel, Qadhafi and Gorby stepping out of his closet, while over at 1600 Penn...
“Nancy, I’ve had it up to my keister with this thing.”
Doonsbury was funny in the seventies. Trudeau handled Nixon masterfully but when the gipper became prez he went off the rails and never got back on.
Trudeau partially redeemed himself when he took up the cause of the wounded warriors but when he veers back into politics it’s all bile, all the time.
Bloom County started in ‘81 with Santa Claus relating to Milo his labor troubles. The elves go on strike so Reagan fires them and replaces them with the fired air traffic controllers.
I see your Doonsberry and raise you a “Cathy”.
Doonsbury was funny in the seventies. Trudeau handled Nixon masterfully but when the gipper became prez he went off the rails and never got back on.”
His lampoon of John Kerry helped sink him.
That would be interesting:
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