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Garry Trudeau's eating habits are not the signs of an eccentric cartoonist, but merely the eating habits of an un married college student. In my own apartment here at Cal State Fullerton you will find 13 empty bottles of Dr Pepper, six Swanson TV dinners, and in the freezer an open can of orange juice concentrate with a spoon...
...joke would wear thin ^ very quickly if the humor were not based on a sound knowledge of classical ballet. Working with a cartoonist's bold strokes, the Trock choreographers can come uncannily close to the original steps of the ballets they spoof. Peter Anastos, 28, (whose stage name is Olga Tchi-kaboumskaya) slyly transforms New York City Ballet's daisy chain into a spaghetti of arms and legs in his parody of Balanchine's Concerto Barocco. "Everyone who has seen Balanchine recognizes his chain of dancers weaving in and out and around each other," says Anastos...
Trudeau is also in debt to Jules Feiffer's skeletal style and balloonless neurotic monologues. But the cartoonist Trudeau most admires is a past master, the long-neglected Winsor McCay, whose Little Nemo in Slumberland appeared in the New York Herald 70 years ago. Nemo, a boy who wandered each night in surreal dreamscapes, was an enchanting champion of childhood fantasy. Though Trudeau cannot approach McCay's technique, he still retains the ability to see things through young eyes. "A flight of fantasy," he writes in his preface to the Chronicles, "is no mere sleight of mind...
...progenitor has few weaknesses. Among them are junk food and Dr. Pepper. He is so casual about feeding habits that he keeps a can of frozen orange juice concentrate in his refrigerator and spoons out enough for one glass at a time. As a cook Trudeau is a great cartoonist. "I've moved rom Swanson's to Stouffer's," he says. "A sign of affluence, I guess...
Reporter-style, Trudeau often shows up at Senate hearings, conventions and other news events. Last fall he accompanied President Ford to China, where the cartoonist made diplomatic and aerodynamic history by tossing his Frisbee with NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw atop the Great Wall. Reports the discus thrower: "The wall was too narrow to go for distance, and the wind currents were bad." Trudeau also wrote and illustrated a 3,000-word report on the trip for 75 client papers, and did prliminary sketches for Uncle Duke's arrival last month as Chinese envoy. This week, Trudeau will attend...