Two hundred years of sanctions against cruel and unusual interrogation techniques suddenly seem old-fashioned as CIA intern Jeff Redfern breezes off to "torture class". Roland's ubiquitous epaulets are home from Rummyworld, "that vast, tumultuous terrorist theme park that used to be known as Iraq." At its chaotic outer edges, in al-Amok, Proconsul Duke survives numerous assassination attempts and the alleged courting of his sidekick by Iraqi suitors. But the serious new action is in New Orleans, and Team Duke, like Halliburton, embarks for the Golf Coast. Mike's summer daydream may be the only place we'll ever hear a thorough mea culpa from Dubya. But while mistakes have been made, lessons have been learned, and the White House hosts an official Ethics Refresher Course: "Right, good. Wrong, bad." The president seeks to clarify: "Invasions are still okay, though, right?" And how does 43 sleep at night? Alas, not well. "It's the stem cells. I hear their cries." Heckuva job.

9 x 11 inches, 256 pages, color and b&w.

With the marathon PT sessions paying off and his coaching job at Walden re-secured, B.D.'s healing journey is going well, at least on the surface. But there are signs of inner turmoil. "I'd rather sleep with my weapon than my wife! How messed up is that?" he asks his doctor. Messed up enough that our wounded warrior forces himself to begin circling the local Vet Center, where he is gently and skillfully reeled in by a remarkable counselor and fellow Vietnam Vet named Elias. Their sessions together as they grapple with PTSD form an extraordinary and moving chronicle of catharsis and coming-to-terms. The words "Welcome home, soldier," are powerful and transformative, and B.D. is fortunate in finally getting to a place where he can hear them.

Proceeds to benefit Fisher House

6 x 8^1/4 inches, 112 pages, b&w.

This breathtaking volume boldly, cheerfully and blankly stares back across the stunningly copacetic life and times of Zonker Harris. From his Californian-American roots to his legendary status as surfer, nanny, and former sun God, his career trajectory has unfailingly carried him ever-deeper into the homegrown heart of the American daydream. Dubbed Walden's "Greatest Living Slacker" by his alma mater, Zonker has shown that winging it is a viable survival strategy, and has ever held true to his tude. Now a professional nanny who took his charge surfing while still in diapers, Zonker Harris, manchild of the Golden West, continues to pass on the gentle wisdom of his kind.

9 x 11 inches, 288 pages, color and b&w.

Thousands of U.S. soldiers have suffered grievous wounds in Iraq, and one of them happens to be a Doonesbury character. This special collection chronicles seven months of cutting-edge cartooning, during which B.D. and readers of the strip got an up-close schooling in a kind of personal transformation no one seeks. Deprived not only of a leg but also his ubiquitous trademark helmet, B.D. embarks upon a remarkable journey of healing, awed in turn by morphine, take-no-guff nurses, his fellow amps, and his family. His inspiring, insightful and darkly humorous story confirms that it takes a ward to get a soldier back on his feet, especially when one of them is titanium.

Proceeds to benefit Fisher House

6 x 8^1/4 inches, 96 pages, b&w.

History will never forget the Kahleefornia Recall debacle which jerk-pressed Arnold "the Gropenfurher" Schwarzenegger to a position of power. But it may never include the complete story of Dubya's National Guard Duty, despite Mark and Zonk's unclaimed $10K reward for anyone able to corroborate the flightsuit-in-chief's account. Meanwhile, near Fallujah, an RPG costs the U.S. government a humvee and B.D. a leg. While Zonker sees the sunny side ("Wow! B.D. won a purple heart!") and the amputee himself spins his loss for Boopsie ("I'm finally down to my ideal weight…"), daughter Sam cuts to the essence of a life-changing, helmet-removing moment: "Yea! Daddy's coming home!"

9 x 11 inches, 152 pages, color and b&w.

CIA intern Jeff Redfern kicks off this latest collection by launching a Predator drone and, using basic Nintendo training, knocking out an Al-Q ammo dump. Meanwhile, two countries over, B.D. returns to the sands of Kuwait, now Camp Blowback's Public Affairs Officer. Among his charges: Roland Hedley, veteran of a grueling combat training program designed to keep mediafolk from getting capped. While the troops and the embedded ones pre-position, Viceroy-in-Waiting Duke hovers in a nearby Emirate, preparing to answer empire's call. And stateside, Mike prepares to log some serious CNN time, while the Rev. Sloan girds his loins for peace.

9 x 11 inches, 152 pages, color and b&w.

As 9-11 shakes the Doonesbury world, many of its denizens are drawn inexorably toward Ground Zero -- Mike to attend a memorial service for a former employer; B.D., re-activated for crowd control and celebrity tourism; Marcia Feinbloom to hit on firefighters; and Zonker to deliver potent fruitcakes to weary rescue workers. Those on the home front are no less affected by events: "I no longer care what Madonna had for breakfast," laments Boopsie, proof positive that Everything Has Changed. Half a world away, in Al-Qaeda Qountry, a burka-clad Roland Hedley is captured by a freelance warlord, then wounded by a can of Spam.

9 x 11 inches, 152 pages, color and b&w.

Even challenging Dubya to a "pronunciation bee" can't save Uncle Duke's weird-horse race for the White House. In the end, the former Ambassador passes out in a snowbank while the Cheney Administration kicks into high gear. Predictablistically, the new presidential syntax isn't the only thing that's tortured and strange. Take myvulture.com,an Internet company born and born-again, worth $1 million or $500, depending on whether you ask the CEO or his mother; or consider J.J. and Zeke, whose pay-per-view, online wedding yields mucho buzz but zero bucks -- just like the rest of the Net. Yes, it's a Dubya Dubya Dubya world. Doonesbury just downloads it.

9 x 11 inches, 152 pages, color and b&w.

The Dukester and "Buck Wild" Honey help Jesse "Mind Over Body" Ventura take the Minnesota state house by storm, while in Washington, the Process holds sway as all participants race to stake out the moral low ground ("Will the fornicator from Indiana yield?"). Intrepid reporter Roland Hedley asks congressmen for DNA samples, while Dubya agonizes over the "youthful indiscretions" of his midforties. Elsewhere, dear Lacey Davenport is escorted to the Great Beyond by her late beloved Richard, leaving behind a sterling reputation and two startled beneficiaries, Alice and Elmont, who must navigate the difficult transition to a roofed existence. 

9 x 11 inches, 152 pages, color and b&w.

This book-plus package offers a breathtaking view of the Doonesbury universe in one integrated, multi-featured package. The anthology is bundled with a CD-Rom that is almost embarrassingly full -- 25 years of Doonesbury, over 9,000 strips archived with every search mode imaginable. Readers can locate strips by character, topic, chronology, dialogue, or location. The disc also includes a digital cornucopia -- posters, video and audio, a Doonesbury timeline, animation, and a trivia game show complete with unctuous host (Mike) and decorative hostess (Boopsie). Relive the ages of Aquarius, Reagan and O.J. through the eyes of G.B. Trudeau and his merry band of misfits. 

8 1/2 x 11 inches, 256 pages, color and b&w.

Includes Doonesbury Flashbacks CD-ROM with over 9,000 strips (1970-1995 strips / Windows 95-98 only).

Had your fill of Doonesbury collections that celebrate three years or less of the Pulitzer Prize-winning strip? Then get ready to be happy -- this 320-page behemoth covers all 25 years that Doonesbury's been open for business. A special silver anniversary anthology, Flashbacks offers the key daily and color Sunday toons that form the core of the Doonesbury saga, all fully annotated to document the strip's impact on the wider world. Includes a wealth of anecdotes and esoteria hitherto known only to the author and a few isolated scholars. 

11 x 8 1/2 inches, 320 pages, color and b&w.

This easy-to-carry volume chronicles the high- and low-lights of campaign 92: the controversial (and newsmaking) strips about Dan Quayle's DEA file; a long look under the hood of a tiny, deeply disturbed Texas billionaire; and a consideration of the mysterious sway a dark-horse candidate from Arkansas held over politicalreporters. Also encompassed: the Gulf War -- from B.D.'s off-shore fling with a superior officer, to Mr. Butts' recruiting efforts as the military's "tobacco liaison", to Duke's grand opening of Club Scud, home of the $50 hamburger. And we witness the passing of AIDS victim Andy Lippincott. Final words? "Brian Wilson is God."

8 1/2 x 11 inches, 224 pages, color and b&w.

The 30^th Annual JFK Assassination Conspiracy-Fest turns up a puzzling new piece of evidence: Who is the mysterious figure photographed in Dealey Plaza? Could it be the paranoid's paranoid -- Uncle Duke?  Solving a different longtime mystery, Mark outs himself on National Public Radio and ratings soar, though as a "heterosexually challenged" man he finds little support from family -- or even friends like Zonker, who attempts to stuff him back into the closet. Alice and Elmont are also out -- out in the cold, weathering a tough winter and looking back fondly on the ‘80s, the Golden Age of Homelessness.

8 1/2 x 9 inches, 96 pages, b&w.

Front line action in Operation Desert Storm, with shoulder-mounted fax machines and acronym-studded briefings by Major E. "Buzz" Fogg. After his humvee takes a direct hit, Ray is medevacked to the "meat fleet". Meanwhile Mr. Butts tallies the weekly body count -- 9,000 American KBS's ("Killed by Smoking. Talk about your friendly fire!") As Kuwait City is liberated and the drums of war fall silent, post-traumatic confusions mount for both warmakers and their better halves. But when the white flags finally come out, the most serious casualty is armchair pilot Mike, who finds himself staring at unemployment.

8 1/2 x 9 inches, 96 pages, b&w.

While millions of pilgrims flock to upstate New York for the 25^th anniversary of Woodstock, Zonker flashes back to the original (acid triage, the bummer tent, Hendrix eating his guitar), with memories made all the more poignant by the fact that they're imaginary. Equally surreal? The here and now, with Mike switching to the GOP, tobacco execs swearing under oath that cigarettes are as safe as Twinkies, preteens shipped off to self-esteem camp, "all-O.J." media coverage, "Father Duke" founding Nothin' But Orphans, the president devolving into a flying waffle -- who said the sixties had the corner on weirdness?

8 1/2 x 9 inches, 96 pages, b&w.

The Gulf War reactivates a platoon of veteran characters: for B.D. the change of climate forces a change of helmets; Buttsy serves country and corporation as Battalion Tobacco Liaison; Boopsie gives it her all as a USO volunteer on the Jay Leno Southwest Asia Thanksgiving Tour; while Roland "From-somewhere-in-the-Mideast" Hedley is even more lost than usual. Meanwhile Mike agonizes over oil company ads, Lacey resigns over the S&L crisis, and Andy Lippincott finally succumbs to AIDS. His strength, courage, and good humor carry him clear through his own memorial service, where a pre-taped video allows him the final word.

8-1/2 by 9 inches, 96 pages, b&w.

The perennial bad boy of American comics has always been a man of action: libelous action, irrational action, covert action, back-street action-even when comatose, he has a certain flare. Duke is a man of a thousand vices, with almost as many pages to his resume. For 17 years, from Samoa to China to Panama to Kuwait, wherever serious mischief was being dealt, duke has been a major player.
Action Figure! tells the unvarnished story so far-the definitive look at a man whose life has become, with this long-awaited volume, an open, if occasionally incomprehensible, book.

8-1/2 by 9 inches, 224 pages, b&w.