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Garry Trudeau
July 11, 2008
Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury,
became the first comic strip artist ever to be awarded a Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning, an award he won in 1975. (In
1989, he was a finalist for a second Pulitzer.) Doonesbury was
launched in 1970 and now appears in approxomiately 1,400 daily
and Sunday newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. His work has been
collected in nearly 60 hardcover and paperback editions which
have cumulatively sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
Mr. Trudeau co-directed the
animated film, "A Doonesbury Special" for NBC in 1977.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award and received the
Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1988, Trudeau
wrote and co-produced, along with director Robert Altman, HBO's
critically acclaimed "Tanner '88," a satiric look at
that year's presidential campaign. The show won several awards
including an Emmy as well as four ACE award nominations.
On other fronts, Ben & Jerry's
ice cream introduced "Doonesberry," a sorbet made with
raspberries and blueberries in 1996. Since 1999 Trudeau has also
worked with Starbucks to offer "Dbury@Sbucks," a series
of limited edition Doonesbury products that raise money for local
literary programs.
In 2000, Trudeau, working with
Dotcomix, launched Duke2000, a presidential campaign and website
featuring a real-time 3-D streaming-animation character. Nearly
30 campaign videos were posted on the site, and Ambassador Duke
was interviewed by satellite on "Live on Larry King"
and 60 local TV news programs.
Trudeau earned his B.A. and
M.F.A. in graphic design at Yale University. He has since received
more than 18 honorary degrees and has been inducted as a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has contributed
articles to publications such as Harper's, Rolling Stone, The
New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. For five
years he as an occasional columnist for The New York Times op-ed
page, and is currently a contributing essayist for TIME magazine. |
