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
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That's for the readers to adjudge, but I will say that in general public commentators have nowhere near the clout that we enjoyed 35 years ago, the age of four TV channels and no Internet, ... As far as I'm concerned, it's all good. You can't have too many voices in a democracy. Talented people will find their audiences.
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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.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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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've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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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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I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
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I regularly give out my contact info to soldiers, but I only occasionally get updates from soldiers after they leave WRAMC, understandably.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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It was at a time when U.S. troops were taking heavy casualties, and I wanted the strip to reflect the sacrifices that our countrymen were making.
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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.
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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.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.