Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Liz Smith: Life's No Longer Comic for Garry Trudeau

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Liz Smith | 11/03/2010 12:00 am

Liz Smith

"I NO longer advise anyone to get into comic strips. If I were graduating today, I’d be standing with my portfolio outside of Pixar," says the king, Garry Trudeau, reflecting on his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip career. Just one more big change in the popular culture!

This is the year that "Doonesbury" turned 40. And Rolling Stone’s Chip Kidd compares Trudeau to Tolstoy, "methodically constructing a large cast of complex and intriguing characters whom the reader comes to care about, then letting the great tsunami of current events envelop them all."

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Tomorrow, the body-tattooed rap star ...

Source: http://www.wowowow.com/culture/liz-smith-lifes-no-longer-comic-garry-trudeau-doonesbury-508861

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