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What cartoon does Garry Trudeau right?
Doonesbury
Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.
Who is the waffle in Doonesbury?
Garry Trudeau
Vice President Dan Quayle was depicted as a feather. As for Mr. Clinton, Garry Trudeau, who draws “Doonesbury,” invited readers to choose a symbol: a flipping coin or a waffle. He did not say how many readers he heard from, but a week later the waffle appeared.
Who created Doonesbury?
Doonesbury/Authors
Who is Garry Trudeau wife?
Jane Pauleym. 1980
Garry Trudeau/Wife
Who is married to Jane Pauley?
Garry Trudeaum. 1980
Jane Pauley/Spouse
Pauley married cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, on June 14, 1980. They have three children and two grandchildren.
Is Doonesbury a political cartoon?
Doonesbury became known for its social and political commentary. As of the mid-2010s it is syndicated in approximately 1,400 newspapers worldwide. In May 1975, Doonesbury became the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, taking the award for Editorial Cartooning.
Is Garry Trudeau a liberal?
Trudeau satirized politicians from across the political spectrum, but he approached highly charged issues such as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, gay rights, and abortion from a consistently liberal perspective.
What cartoon was Bill the Cat in?
Bill the Cat, or Bill D. Cat, is a fictional cat appearing in the works of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, beginning with the comic strip Bloom County in the 1980s and continuing in Outland and Opus in the following decades.
When did the comic strip Doonesbury start?
1970
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau created Doonesbury in 1970 out of characters from his strip Bull Tales in the Yale Daily News. In the early years the main characters were college students who did not perceptibly age. In 1984 Trudeau began aging the cast in real time.
Why is Doonesbury running old strips?
But Trudeau takes issue with the perception that Doonesbury is a political comic. He stopped drawing the daily strip in 2014 to focus on television writing and on the Sunday comic, which has primarily focused on politics over the past four years.
How old is Doonesbury?
| Doonesbury | |
|---|---|
| Current status/schedule | Sunday only (Repeat strips through the week) |
| Launch date | October 26, 1970 |
| Syndicate(s) | Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication |
| Genre(s) | Humor, politics, satire |