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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. "
Garry Trudeau
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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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" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "
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" Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. "
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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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" 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 well-spent. "
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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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" 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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" I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. "
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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 a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to. "
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Home
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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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" 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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You
Sex
" In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. "
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Nothing
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" In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. "
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Popular
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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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" Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. "
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School
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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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Paper
Expectation
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