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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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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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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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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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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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 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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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
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America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.