Trump Hijacks Doonesbury: Trudeau’s 2016 Strip Meets the Reality Show
TL;DR
An excerpt from Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography traces how Garry Trudeau shifted from anticipating a Bush–Clinton 2016 race to chronicling Donald Trump’s ascent, with his 2015 strip foreshadowing a nonstop, reality-TV presidency and signaling a move away from mocking the Bush era toward documenting Trump’s impact on American politics.
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- The Story of ‘Doonesbury’ and a Half-Century of American Absurdity The New York Times
- How Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoons captured America: ‘One of our nation’s greatest journalists’ The Guardian
- Garry Trudeau was a prep school kid, but he identified with the Jewish outsider in 'Doonesbury' The Forward
- Jack Ohman and Garry Trudeau Updates The Daily Cartoonist
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