The Washington Post has a great piece profiling one of the best cartoonist around, G.B. Trudeau. It is certainly one of the more unusual articles on a cartoonist I have read, being set against a background of Gary spending time in a steak house not far from the White House which was serving up a meal to G.I.s seriously injured in the War on Terror. Gene Weingarten, the Post’s reporter, points out the awkward nature of how to talk to someone who has been dreadfully injured and then how simply Gary cut through it all, talking straight to the guys. It’s not a surprise that even those who don’t like his famous Doonesbury strip do approve of his move where he had a long-time character maimed in Iraq and has followed his attempts to rehabilitate and rebuild his life (see the most recent collection, Hecukva Job, Bushie!).
“In these soldiers’ minds their whole identity, who they are right now, is what happened to them. They want to tell the story, they want to be asked about it, and you’re honoring them by listening. The more they revisit it, the less power it has over them.” G.B. Trudeau speaking in the Washington Post.
Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Comics and cartoons