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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. "

Garry Trudeau

Generation

You

Sex

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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Place

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

" 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

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

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

Garry Trudeau

Ideas

Vegetables

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

" 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. "

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

" When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. "

" 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. "

Garry Trudeau

Support

View

" Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. "

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

" There is nothing worse than annotated humour. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Work

" 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

Well-Spent

" 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. "

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

Garry Trudeau

Kid

School

" 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. "

" 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. "