Garry Trudeau

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

— Garry Trudeau

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

— Garry Trudeau

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

— Garry Trudeau

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

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

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There is nothing worse than annotated humour,

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Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

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The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

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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…

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

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Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

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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…

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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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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

— Garry Trudeau

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 don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could…

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At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S…

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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…

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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable,…

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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…

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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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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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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

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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…

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

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is…

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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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America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

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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.

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

— Garry Trudeau