That's Doctor Sinatra, You Little Bimbo! (A Doonesbury book / by G.B. Trudeau)

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Summary: The Reagan years.
Review: The Doonsbury cartoons are one the finest examples of modern satire. Unlike many such series, the characters age and grow and many of them even mature. This brings an extra dimension to the series that is lacking in other cartoons.

In this book, originally drawn in 1985 and 1986 we see Trudeau's family of characters grown up from their college days and forming careers and becoming homemakers as well as dealing with the contemporary issues of the Reagan era. Boopsie throws her first star tantrum, Honey works as a model and then helps Duke with his "medical" conference, meanwhile, Mike and JJ try to move to New York.

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Summary: Frank Sinatra finds Gary Trudeau "as funny as a tumor"
Review: When "Doonesbury" offered up a week's worth of comic strips commenting on Frank Sinatra's association with known crime figures through the use of photographs, Sinatra put out a prepared press statement declaring: "Garry Trudeau makes his living by his attempts at humor without regard for fairness or decency." During a concert at Carnegie Hall, Sinatra told his audience "He's as funny as a tumor." For good measure, Congressman Joseph J. DioGuardia got up on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to express his outrage over Trudeau's strips as a "tasteless and unfair" treatment of Sinatra.

The Sintra steps might have given "That's DOCTOR Sinatra, You Little Bimbo!" its title, but it is only one week's worth of daily strips in this collection of "Doonesbury" cartoons from 1985-1986 and Trudeau steps on much bigger political toes in the political arena. President Reagan's visit to the Bitburg conentration camp (one of the "less depresssing ones") and endorsement of the pro-life documentary "Silent Scream" ("Silent Scream II: The Prequel") are really a lot more offensive to those inclined to be so. Meanwhile, Jimmy Thudpucker is off to Addis Ababa on behalf of U.S.A. for Africa while the President enlists the help of conservative superstars for their "USA for South Africa" effort.

Still, while it might take you a while to recall all these fun events from the Reagan Years there are still the lives of the Doonesbury gang to keep up our interest. Zonker checks out spring break in Fort Lauderdale and finds Boopsie making a movie and then decides to help the American Cancer Society make a PSA on the dangers of tanning. Homeless couple Alice and Elmont tie the knot, and Honey is a nude model at the Shaghai Art Institute. Then there is poor Mike Doonesbury himself, who not only has to attend Ms. Marcia Feinbloom's Celebration of her Singularity (she is calling off the search for Mr. Right) and J.J.'s unveiling of the suite of paintings she has been working on for two years (she tells him not to say anything, but does Mike listen?). So, "That's DOCTOR Sinatra, You Little Bimbo!" does not have any particular classic Doonesbury strips, but there is still a few palatable hits in the bunch.