Quotes by Garry Trudeau

About Garry Trudeau:

Garretson Beekman is 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.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

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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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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

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

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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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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

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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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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 strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

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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 ...

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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

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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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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

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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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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

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Author Bio

  • NameGarry Trudeau
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornJuly 21, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCartoonist
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Editorial Cartooning; George Polk Award