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His characters have dealt with AIDS, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, college students, gun control and other issues.Trudeau has remained current. Recent themes have included the problems of wounded veterans returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan — not the sort of thing you’d find in Family Circus.Almost from the first, some have argued that Doonesbury belongs on the editorial page, not in the comics.
The Dallas Morning News has an interesting story about how Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman got together to create their hit feature “Zits.”Sketches in hand, he ran into Jim Borgman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from Cincinnati, at a conference…. Drawing.”Then the conference broke up and everybody went home.”But every once in a while, the fax would bleep,” Mr. Borgman says.
News columnist Mike Peters (not the Grimmy Mike Peters) interviewed the Brevity duo and filed a quick six question story. Questions include: What made you do a comic strip?How do you describe Brevity?How does your collaboration work?How does creating the comic strip compare with your day job?Can we believe anything on your Comics.com bio page ? where, for instance, Guy claims to be a member of the 1987 Olympic team?What’s new?On the last question, Guy reveals that there will be a new Brevity book coming out later this year.
Lewis’ “Over the Hedge” movie is starting to create some buzz as it gets closer to it’s May 19 nation-wide opening. Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation CEO had this nice thing to say about the movie:”That was the genius of the strip.
Chad Carpenter’s “Tundra” has beaten out Bound and Gagged at the Standard Examiner (Ogden UT). The editor reported that in the two week trial run and ongoing poll – 80% of the readers polled preferred Tundra over Bound and Gagged.