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" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "
Garry Trudeau
Work
Just
Me
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" I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career. "
Garry Trudeau
Newspapers
Been
Career
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Responsibility
Help
Humor
" Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. "
Garry Trudeau
Comics
Any
You
" 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
Days
Day
Year
" I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. "
Garry Trudeau
Decide
I Can
Interesting
" The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. "
Garry Trudeau
Collective
Place
Like
" There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives. "
Garry Trudeau
Late
Minds
Park
" I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. "
Garry Trudeau
Time
Been
Trying
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Day
Together
Time
" I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me. "
Garry Trudeau
Back
Think
War
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Guilty
Create
Enough
" In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. "
Garry Trudeau
Over
Popular
Dominant
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Paper
Expectation
Every Day
" I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. "
Garry Trudeau
Live
Us
People
" Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? "
Garry Trudeau
Kid
School
Like
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Day
Up
Well-Spent
" I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. "
Garry Trudeau
Never
Imagination
Off
" As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. "
Garry Trudeau
Off
Table
Concerned
" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "
Garry Trudeau
College
World
Been
" The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure. "
Garry Trudeau
Thoughtful
Moving
Nice
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Work
Content
You
" Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. "
Garry Trudeau
You
Up
Like
" I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. "
Garry Trudeau
Working
Perspective
Good
" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "
Garry Trudeau
Humour
Nothing
Worse
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Think
Home
Money
" In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. "
Garry Trudeau
Views
War
Secret
" When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. "
Garry Trudeau
Natural
Feel
Doing
" 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. "
Garry Trudeau
Me
Work
Up
" Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. "
Garry Trudeau
Culture
Frustration
Goals
" Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. "
Garry Trudeau
Humor
Break
Stigma