Why Garry Trudeau Finally O.K.’d a Biography: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/books/review/garry-trudeau-doonesbury-biography.html

KENDALL (biographer): I emphasize in the book — and I think you would agree — that your biggest evolution was about feminism. Some of your early strips were kind of sexist.

TRUDEAU (biographee): (Sigh.) Do you have them in there too?

KENDALL: A couple. But then you really get it. I think your college girlfriend, Annie, really taught you. And then two or three years later, Joanie Caucus pops up in the strip, and then all of a sudden, you’re going to feminist rallies and fund-raisers. That evolution is remarkable.

NYT: Garry, you haven’t read the book yet?

TRUDEAU: No. Do you think it would be a good beach read? I’ll read it on the beach this summer, where my shrieks of mortification will mix with the screeches of the sea gulls.

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