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
comics time
Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
pulled
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
readers whether
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
form social
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
adult attracts awake concern matter minds page subject unlike wide
There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
coming cutting hard pop
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
antagonize editors fine longer people rolling whose
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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.
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.
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.