{"id":752,"date":"2008-03-14T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2008-03-14T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T08:20:35","slug":"most-importantly-im-a-comic-strip-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"“Most importantly, I’m a comic strip artist”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garry Trudeau was Thursday night. My expectations of the Doonesbury creator were dashed – his reputation as reclusive and publicity-shy did not match up to the slightest bit of reticence or awkwardness, indeed he was incredibly comfortable before the audience and downright effusive. Sean Plunket would ask a question and he’d skid off on long, winding replies full of well-practised gags and insight. He had well-worn anecdotes for everything that was thrown at him, but there’s no cause to resent that – the guy’s a legend and just seeing him was neat.
\nStill, not much of note to report. Much more fun to be there listening than to read about it afterwards, I expect.
\nI was pleased by his opening words, where he said yes, he was a satirist and social commentator and even soap opera writer, but most importantly he was a comic strip artist.
\nWas even more pleased that almost the first question from the staid, politics-minded 50-something crowd (one always gets such a crowd at Writers and Readers week) called back to this, by asking him what other comic strips he enjoyed. No surprises in his response (Calvin & Hobbes, The Far Side and currently Dilbert) but it was nice to hear. Classic newspaper strips are enjoying a surge in legitimacy with lots of well-assembled archival collections on release, such as the Complete Peanuts and Complete Popeye; I would have liked to hear more on that, but to be honest I’m a politics-minded dude like everyone else in the crowd so I was delighted with what we got.
\nFor more on Trudeau, Grant enthuses here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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