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Tanner '88 (HBO, 1988). In the midst of the decade's most boring presidential campaign, writer Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman invented their own candidate (played with mealy-mouthed hilarity by Michael Murphy) and concocted a brilliant satire of politics, media, life...
...Outland" does not even integrate humor and surrealism as well as G.B. Trudeau's "Doonesbury." Breathed's "Bloom County," though funny in its commentary on 1980s culture, was basically "Doonesbury" with funny animals. By the looks of "Outland," Breathed is still playing in Trudeau's shadow. If you want artistic adventurism in the comic pages, look to Trudeau's talking cigarette or his personification of Old Man History. Or look to Zippy the Pinhead. Or look to Life In Hell. Or even to Calvin and Hobbes...
BREATHED promised us a lot with this strip. He said he was burned out on "Bloom County," but he has shown no signs of revival in "Outland." It is hard to believe he has made an honest attempt at a new artistic direction. Trudeau and Gary Larson took sabbaticals to save themselves from burnout, but they did not reject their characters. Breathed did. Anyone who owns an Opus T-shirt should feel betrayed...
...Poor kids," she said of her two sons and daughter, "They think mommy goes to work to have her hair done and daddy's always coloring on the floor," Pauley said. Pauley is married to Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau...
Married to "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau--who was actually the Harvard Class Day speaker six years ago--Pauley first became pregnant in 1983 with twins and sparked a heated controversy about the professionalism of her actions by appearing on television...