1948-
Cartoonist

A Remarkable Achievement.

Garry Trudeau was the most no-table — and often the most controversial — cartoonist of the 1970s. His comic strip, "Doonesbury," simultaneously poked fun at and commented on the various sacred cows of American life. As President Gerald Ford remarked in a 1975 speech to the Radio and Television Correspondents Association, "There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media and Doonesbury . . . not necessarily in that order." Trudeau's was the first comic strip ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize.

From Yale to the United States.

Born in New York, Trudeau attended Yale University, where he got his start in the late 1960s drawing for the student newspaper a comic strip, "Bull Tales," that held campus administrators up to scrutiny and ridicule. He started graduate school, but the...