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Such charges may seem fantastic, the sort of misinformation one typically finds only in The National Enquirer. Currently, however, those charges are being made in the pages of about 1400 respected newspapers nationwide--in the comic pages. The man making the accusation is Garry Trudeau, a noted cartoonist, and the vessel is "Doonesbury," Trudeau's famous (or infamous) comic strip...
...also have to put up with Geraldo Rivera, who claims in his new book to have cavorted with Maggie Trudeau, ex-wife of former Prime Minister Pierre, with one sentence burned into the mind of all Canadians: "And right there, the estranged wife of the Canadian Prime Minister proceeded to give new meaning to the term 'head of state...
STILL, things are OK up north, with our welfare state politics and Euromalaise. Pierre Trudeau, age 71, just fathered a daughter. Ontario Hydro is raping St. James Bay, which at least gives us all something to talk about...
Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME, a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much -- infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex, Volare, bygone rock dances...
...from the press. During editing, only five copies of the manuscript were printed; each was numbered and kept track of at all times. Simon & Schuster staff members even took copies home at night to guard against leaks. One special reader got the book a month in advance: cartoonist Garry Trudeau was allowed an early peek so he could prepare a week's worth of Doonesbury strips to coincide with the book's release...