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It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead.
The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in Wasilla and moving in next door to Palin as if moving in on his prey. The former Alaska guv sounded ticked. McGinniss sounded tickled. And much of the public chose sides over all this northern overexposure...
...The remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without more information, context and a response from Palin...
When “Doonesbury” character Roland Hedley got his hands on a copy of author Joe McGinniss’s Sarah Palin book he couldn’t believe his good luck... But are these tweets an actual preview of the book? Yes...
In the first page of Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #58, Mike Doonesbury and Zonker Harris from the famed comic strip Doonesbury stop by...
In Dublin to receive an honorary doctorate for four decades’ work on his Doonesbury cartoon strip, Garry Trudeau tells FRANK McNALLY about his family’s link to old Irish bank notes and that despite the doom and gloom, he remains an optimist...
As I'm old enough to recall the stereotypes that formed around Vietnam veterans, I'm well aware of this danger. The purpose of my stories has been to participate in the national conversation about the costs of war...
Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau and lobbyist Lanny Davis are exchanging biting emails and copying POLITICO. The tussle began last Friday when Trudeau skewered Davis in the comic strip for representing Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo...
“The rumors are true,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Mike Whaley with a playful emphasis on “rumors.” Following a series of meetings with West College (WestCo) presidents for the past several years and members of the administration and Residential Life (ResLife), the administration has approved the rechristening of Zonker Harris Day, the arts and music festival that takes place in the WestCo courtyard during WesFest each year...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau did a strip a few days ago showing the inanity of broadcast TV news. He drew Brian Williams, the NBC anchor, promoting an "exclusive look at an unfolding story" that would also be shown on sister sites MSNBC and CNBC. Williams teases the story up with more promotion ending with "more on us when our very own broadcast continues."...
Garry Trudeau and Charlie Rose discuss the strip and 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective.
