Culturebox: An Interview With Garry Trudeau

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doonesbury at 40 An Interview With Garry Trudeau The Doonesbury creator on his stamina, the difficulty of satirizing Obama, and the most bizarre attack on his strip ever. By David Plotz Posted Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, at 10:05 AM ET This week, Garry Trudeau publishes 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, a huge and gorgeous collection from the most important, and most hilarious, comic strip of our era. Last week, I interviewed Trudeau by e-mail about the highlights of his four decades with Doonesbury. Slate: Many great cartoonists of your era--Gary Larson, Berkeley Breathed, Bill Watterson, for example--have hung up the pen, but you seem to have Charles Schulz-ian stamina. How have you avoided burnout? To continue reading, click here. David Plotz is Slate's editor. He is the author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible. You can e-mail him at dplotz@slate.com. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate They Don't Make Graphic Novels Like They Made Them in 1930 Could Christine O'Donnell Cause Republicans To Lose in Pennsylvania, Too? WikiLeaks: The New Documents Make Iraqis and Iranians Look Worse than Americans	Advertisement
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