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Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art
In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Joshua Kendall conceived of Trudeau & Doonesbury as a dual biography of the reclusive cartoonist Garry Trudeau and Doonesbury, his famous comic strip.
How Trudeau transformed his Yale campus strip Bull Tales into Doonesbury, bringing sex, drugs, rock and roll, war and political satire to newspaper comic pages, and pioneering what became known as the reported comic…
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