"Doonesbury," the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, is turning 50. Marking the occasion, TODAY's Harry Smith spoke with the groundbreaking strip's creator, Garry Trudeau. "I was seen as daring when it was really poor risk assessment on my part," Trudeau says wryly...

"You can't ignore the importance of novelty in jump-starting a career," Trudeau says. "People were so surprised by this strip that was about sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll and politics and all the things that I was concerned about and was thinking about in college that I got cut a lot of slack..."

GBT in conversation with Doonesbury.com Duty Officer David Stanford, in a livecast event hosted by Oblong Books and Music, in Millerton, New York.

To mark the release of Dbury@50 : The Complete Digital Doonesbury (with 15,000 strips, a 224-page User Manual, and a commemorative poster) Garry Trudeau discusses the book and the strip with David Stanford, Duty Officer, Doonesbury.com. The online event, livestreamed on November 18th, 2020, was hosted by Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore.

To celebrate Doonesbury's half-century milestone, Andrews McMeel Publishing has released Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury, which includes a companion book and a flash-drive archive of the comic's whole history. To mark the moment, The Washington Post asked Trudeau via email to select and illuminate 10 Doonesbury strips that have proved defining and enduringly meaningful to him...

Cartoonist gives his take on success, boomers, and political satire...

Garry Trudeau Is Spoofing The Trump Presidency By Treating It As "A Hostile Takeover"...

Ari Melber interviews GBT re his new book, Lewser! : More Doonesbury in the Time of Trump. Go here, then scroll to left slightly until you see "Garry Trudeau" in the chyron beneath images of GBT and Ari M., then click the video. The interview is in six consecutive one-minute clips.

Next to the door of my father's studio stood a lacquered mahogany clock that didn't work...

Famed cartoonist Garry Trudeau creates latest Winter Carnival button...