Jack Ohman and Garry Trudeau Updates
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Jack Ohman at The Herlock Prize Presentation
From Bruce Guthrie comes 150+ still photos of Jack Ohman receiving The Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress event from May 26, 2026.
Mr. Guthrie has a photographic archive of Herblock Prize presentations going back 12 years featuring Jen Sorensen, Kevin Kallagher, Mark Fiore, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, Matt Davies, Lalo Alcaraz, Ann Telnaes, Steve Brodner, andMarty Two Bulls, Sr.
The Comics DC blog’s items tagged Jack Ohman has more about the event and surrounding activities.
That Doonesbury Book
Joshua Kendall, author of the recently released book Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, writes for Forward of Garry Trudeau’s relationship and understanding of the Jewish community.
“Trudeau had more in common with ‘Megaphone Mark’ Slackmeyer than you might think.”
Trudeau’s “Megaphone Mark” — who sported long hair and a bushy beard —was modeled on Mark Zanger, the leader of the Yale chapter of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). Mark’s first act in the strip is to take over the office of President King, the WASPy president of Walden College, who was based on the actual Yale president, Kingman Brewster. Over the next few months, Trudeau increasingly used Mark’s clashes with his father Phil, a New Jersey stockbroker desperate for his son to “succeed,” to dramatize tensions within postwar Jewish life.
Cartoonist Ruben (Tom the Dancing Bug) Bolling reviews Trudeau & Doonesbury for Boing Boing and attends a joint appearance of Trudeau and Kendall at the 92nd Street Y in NYC.
As revered as “Doonesbury” is, I still think it’s underappreciated as a masterpiece of of American art. More than a half-century running, it’s a chronicle of the country’s late 20th century, early 21st century social, cultural, and political life, read and cherished by hundreds of millions of people, and celebrated and/or feared by the nation’s power elite.
Pamela Newton for The New York Times conducts a joint interview with Garry Trudeau and Joshua Kendall.
Although he’s become a hero to many, particularly on the American left, Trudeau, 77, has kept a low profile. He famously refused to do any interviews for 17 years, from 1973 to 1990, and since then has spoken publicly rarely. (His wife of over 45 years, the TV anchor Jane Pauley, convinced him to sit for an interview with her on “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2018.) So it might be surprising that he was a willing participant in “Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography,” by the journalist Joshua Kendall, out this month from Abrams.
TRUDEAU [Kendall] knows what happened better than I do. This isn’t either an “authorized” or “unauthorized” biography; it’s unopposed. But I tried to be helpful.
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