Blogs Quote by Garry Trudeau

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

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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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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or…

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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…

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

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There is nothing worse than annotated humour,

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Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're…

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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…

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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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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…

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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 a day…

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I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues .., 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team ...'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from…

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