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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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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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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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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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 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.