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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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Vegetables

" 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. "

" I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. "

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

" Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. "

" I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. "

" 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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Support

View

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "

" Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? "

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Kid

School

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

" I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. "

" The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. "

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Collective

Place

" 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. "

" I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. "

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Work

Just

" 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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Live

People

" 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. "

" I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life? "

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