A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.

This exclusive excerpt from Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography recounts how Oscar-worthy filmmakers like Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, and Alan Pakula passed on the Pulitzer winner's scripts.

It seems as if “Doonesbury” has been with us forever. First syndicated in 1970, the year that Garry Trudeau graduated from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Feb. 18 strip did not appear in newspapers owned by Gannett, but that was because a decision had been previously made to drop ...

Fans of Doonesbury won’t find the comic strip in the Seattle Times funny pages this week. Editors have moved it to the news section because cartoonist Gary Trudeau is focusing on a controversial Texas ...

How cartoonist Garry Trudeau embraced the counter-culture, became a Rolling Stone writer, and pissed off Hunter S. Thompson ...

The ground-breaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for a half-century. It was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. It's also been ...

Back in early August, fully 18 months into the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden, we noted with curiosity how the liberal newspaper editorial cartoon “Doonesbury” still had not even mentioned Biden, ...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary on October 26, the comic strip “Doonesbury” must hold a longevity record for what was originally intended as an undergraduate jape. And it has a surprising amount of ...

Gary Trudeau's Sunday version of his decades-long political/social sitcom Doonesbury takes a look at the comics collector's market. You know, having seen a few full ...