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
boundaries content perfectly stretched work
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
form social
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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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.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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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.
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.