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Garry Trudeau On Trump, Toons, And Televison

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published October 28, 2016 at 10:33 AM EDT
Book Cover - Yuge!

Garry Trudeau, the iconic cartoonist who created Doonesbury and has been skewering our political lives for over four decades has also worked in theater and television.

In an event last night, presented by Oblong Books and Music at The White Hart Inn in Salisbury, CT, we spoke with Trudeau about his career, politics, and his new book is Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump.
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