Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau at a signing for Scotty McLennan's book Finding Your Religion
Birth name	Garretson Beekman Trudeau
Born	July 21, 1948 (1948-07-21) (age 59) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Area(s)	artist, author, television and theatre director
Notable works	Doonesbury
Awards	1975 Pulitzer Prize 1977 Nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film 1978 Jury Special Prize 1994 Newspaper Comic Strip Award 1995 Reuben Award

Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. Rev. ... is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... // The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present. ... The Reuben Awards, named for Rube Goldberg, are presented each year by the National Cartoonists Society. ... is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. ...

Background and education

Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas (née Moore) and Francis Berger Trudeau. He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created facilities for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York State. Edward was succeeded by his son Francis and grandson Francis Jr. The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at Saranac Lake, with which his son Garry retains a connection.^[1] New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Née redirects here. ... Dr. Edward Trudeau Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau, MD, MS, D. Hon, (1848-1915) was an American doctor who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis. ... Saranac Lake is a village located in the state of New York. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

Raised in Saranac Lake, Garry Trudeau attended St. Paul's School. He enrolled in Yale University in 1967 and later became a member of Scroll and Key. Garry was confident that his major would end up being theatre, but he discovered a greater interest in art design. A drawing by Trudeau of famous Yale quarterback Brian Dowling for the Yale Daily News led to the creation of a comic strip for the paper, Bull Tales, the progenitor of Doonesbury.^[2] Garry continued his studies with postgraduate work at the Yale School of Art, earning his M.F.A. in graphic design in 1973. St. ... Yale redirects here. ... The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society established by John Addison Porter and others at Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1842. ... Production designer is a term used in the movie and television industries to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a film or TV movie. ... A front page of the Yale Daily News. ... The Yale School of Art is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University. ...

Creative works

In 1970, Garry's creation of Doonesbury was syndicated by the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide and is accessible online in association with Slate Magazine at doonesbury.com. Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. ... Print Syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, columns, or comic strips are made available to newspapers and magazines. ... Categories: Magazines stubs | Microsoft subsidiaries | Websites | The Washington Post ...

In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. The award was controversial at the time, since it is traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 1990. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film, for The Doonesbury Special, in collaboration with John Hubley and Faith Hubley. The Doonesbury Special eventually won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Special Prize in 1978. Other awards include the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1994, and the Reuben Award in 1995. Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... This article is about the year. ... // The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present. ... John Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Reuben Awards, named for Rube Goldberg, are presented each year by the National Cartoonists Society. ...

He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. Wiley Miller, fellow comic-strip artist responsible for Non Sequitur, called Trudeau "far and away the most influential editorial cartoonist in the last 25 years." The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Wiley Miller (born 1951 in California) is an American cartoonist who brings wry wit, imaginative concepts, superior drawing skills and trenchant social satire to the mainstream syndicated comic strip pages. ... Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller in 1991 and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to over 700 newspapers. ...

In addition to his work on Doonesbury, Trudeau has teamed up with Elizabeth Swados and written plays (such as Rap Master Ronnie and Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy). In 1988, Trudeau joined forces with director Robert Altman for the HBO miniseries Tanner '88 and the Sundance Channel miniseries sequel Tanner on Tanner in 2004. In 1996, Newsweek and the Washington Post speculated that Trudeau penned the novel Primary Colors, which was later revealed to have been written by Joe Klein. American musician, director, and composer, she has received five Tony award nominations and three Obie awards for her theatrical productions both on and off Broadway. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... For other persons named Robert Altman, see Robert Altman (disambiguation). ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Tanner 88 was a groundbreaking HBO television series. ... Sundance Channel logo used from 1996 to 2002. ... Tanner on Tanner was a 2004 comedy and the sequel series to the 1988 Robert Altman written and Garry Trudeau directed mini-series about a failed presidential candidate. ... This article is about the book. ... For the basketball player, see Joe Kleine. ...

Private life

He married the journalist Jane Pauley in 1980 and has three children-- Ross, Rachel, and Thomas-- and lives in New York City. He is distantly related to the late former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (via common ancestor Étienne Trudeau). Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American television news anchor and journalist. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... Name Pierre Elliott Trudeau Number Fifteenth First term April 20, 1968–June 4,1979 Second term March 3, 1980–June 30, 1984 Predecessor Lester Bowles Pearson Successors Joe Clark John Napier Turner Date of birth October 18, 1919 Place of birth Montreal, Quebec Date of death September 28, 2000 Spouse...

Trudeau maintains a low personal profile. A rare and early appearance on television was as a guest on To Tell the Truth in 1971, where all but one of the panelists failed to guess his identity. To Tell the Truth is also the title of Charles Robert Jenkins autobiography To Tell the Truth is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart[1] and produced by Goodson-Todman Productions that has been aired intermittently in various formats since 1956, hosted by various television personalities. ...

Trudeau granted an interview with Rolling Stone in 2004 in which he discussed his time at Yale University, which he attended two years behind George W. Bush. In 2006, The Washington Post printed an article that writer Gene Weingarten called the "first extensive profile of him (Trudeau) in the 36 years since he began the comic strip." ^[3] He has also appeared on the Charlie Rose television program^[2], and at signings for his Doonesbury book about B.D.'s struggle with injuries received during the second Gulf War.^[4] This article is about the magazine. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... Gene Weingarten Gene Weingarten, born in New York in 1951, is a humor writer and journalist. ... This article is about the American journalist. ... B.D. B.D. is a character from Garry Trudeaus popular comic strip Doonesbury. ...

Criticisms & controversies

Main article: U.S. Presidents IQ hoax

In August 2001, Trudeau and The Guardian both fell for a report by the fictional "Lovenstein Institute" that stated that President George W. Bush had the lowest IQ (91) of any president in the past 50 years, and that former president Bill Clinton had exactly twice the IQ of Bush. The Guardian published an article while Trudeau published a comic strip based on the given information. Both later realized they had fallen for the hoax, and both made public retractions.^[5][6] In mid-2001, a hoax circulated via email, that provided a list of estimated IQs of the U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... This article is about the year. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...

In 2004, Trudeau made a widely-circulated offer of a $10,000 reward (in the form of a gift to the USO in the winner's name) for proof that George W. Bush fulfilled his military duties in the 1970s. (See George W. Bush military service controversy for more complete coverage). As of April 2008, no one has collected on the offer. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... 1st Lt. ...

Bibliography

Main article: List of published collections of Doonesbury

The first collections of the comic strip Doonesbury were published in the early 1970s by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ...

Non-Doonesbury publications

• Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 (with David Levinthal), Sheed, Andrews and McMeel, 1977. Library of Congress 76-52888. The cover shows two Wehrmacht motorcyclists. The book relates the story of Nazi Germany's Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front through archival photos and new photography of model soldiers. ISBN 0-8362-0708-4

• Wrote the introduction and drew the cover cartoon for Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning, by Scotty McLennan

The straight-armed Balkenkreuz, a stylized version of the Iron Cross, the emblem of the Wehrmacht. ... Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte in German) was created on 22 June 1941 when Army Group B was renamed Army Group Centre. ... Combatants Soviet Union,[1] Poland, Tannu Tuva (until 1944 incorporation with USSR), Mongolia Germany,[2] Italy (to 1943), Romania (to 1944), Finland (to 1944), Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Spain (to 1943, unofficial) Commanders Joseph Stalin, Aleksei Antonov, Ivan Konev, Rodion Malinovsky, Ivan Bagramyan, Kirill Meretskov, Ivan Petrov, Alexander Rodimtsev, Konstantin Rokossovsky... 54mm Toy Soldiers by Imperial Productions of New Zealand A toy soldier is a miniature figurine that represents a soldier. ... Rev. ...

References

External links

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• Charlie Rose Interview with Garry Trudeau
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• Rolling Stone interview
• Army Times interview
• 2006 Army Times article
• Mother Jones interview