Garry Trudeau, "#SAD!"

Garry Trudeau discusses his book, "#SAD!", at Politics and Prose on 10/1/18.

As Trudeau reminded us in Yuge!, his collection of comics on Trump from the 1980s to 2016, the president started out as dream material for cartoonists. While he’s become more of a nightmare, the best thing to do—in addition to resisting—is to laugh. Trump still offers plenty of material, and in his new book, Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist behind Doonesbury who’s been practicing his craft for more than four decades, ferrets out the elements of humor in the first five hundred days of Trump’s rants, Tweets, policy flips, personnel problems, and protocol disasters.

G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for more than forty years. In addition to cartooning, Trudeau has worked in theater, film, and television. He also has been a contributing columnist for the New York Times op-ed page and later an essayist for Time magazine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane Pauley. They have three grown children.

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