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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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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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.
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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 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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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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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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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'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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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.