Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeauis an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth21 July 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Garry Trudeau quotes about
ratios wheat investment
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
mirrors smoke bounds
Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
doctors decision want
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
money suffering poor
The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
moving humor responsibility
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
life-is-like bathroom get-up
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
day-well-spent passing monitoring
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
self-esteem character sides
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
editors expectations trying
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
nice military moving
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
humour
There is nothing worse than annotated humour,
knights cartoon keith
Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
expression absolutism free-expression
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
caused comics concerns easier generation introduced less politics rolling
When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.