Garretson Beekman Trudeau

Mr. Garry B. Trudeau is an American comic-strip cartoonist, best known for his work in Doonesbury (Pulitzer Prize winning). Currently, he is the creator and executive producer of the sit-com "Alpha House". Trudeau is a graduate of Yale University where he received his B.A. and M.F.A. from the School of Art and Architecture and began his work with a comic strip called Bull Tales. Later, Bull Tales would become Doonesbury after James F. Andrews from Universal Press Syndicate recruited Trudeau from Yale. His work with Doonesbury has earned him awards such as the Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award. Trudeau has received 34 honorary degrees, including doctorates from Yale, Brown, Colgate, Williams, University of Pennsylvania, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and University College Dublin. In his work with theater and television, Trudeau created the animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, for NBC, which was nominated in the Academy Awards and won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Special Prize in 1978. In addition, Trudeau wrote and produced, Tanner '88, with director Robert Altham on HBO, a satiric look at the year's presidential election campaign, which won its fair share of awards. Trudeau is an essayist who contributes to Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New Yorker, New York Times and The Washington Post, where he oftentimes provides opinions on military issues.