The Interocitor

Um ... maybe Trudeau'll grant Ah-nuld some humanity on Christmas Day. I certainly don't think he cut Nixon (or any of his targets since) much slack (nor is that the business he's in).

I have a fairly complete collection of the books he put out during the period. There is NOTHING that even approaches todays cartoon. Even when he raked the Nixon boys over the coals, he used irony and wit. Feel free to find a Doonesbury in the period 1970-1974 that is as vicious as today's. Say one that calls Nixon a Nazi ....

There's utterly nothing funny about Doonesbury today -- he's replaced the rapier for the club-with-nail-in-it.

When did Trudeau get religion on sexual harrassment? I don't seem to recall it being such a big deal from 1992-2000.

You're right - he's gone from a bright youngster to a cranky old man, bitter and disappointed that the world at large doesn't dance to his tune.

Some people gain wisdom with age; Gerry seems to have lost his.

Interesting name.... I guess with 4 million bloggers I shouldn't be surprised.

Anyway, Trudeau did take Clinton to task over Monica, but there it was the civilized irony and such of old. But he apparently has fallen into the Bush-haters camp, and things have become very nasty in the last few years.

If this goes on, the strip is going to drop from a lot of papers -- or at least be moved to the bile & invective section. A sabbatical would seem a good idea if this is the best he can do.

My favorite outrage was when Trudeau implied that Schwarzenegger was a rapist.

Can you imagine any cartoonist on the right getting away with saying such things about a Democratic governor?

I doubt anyone could have got away with a comic strip calling Clinton a rapist, despite there being a woman claiming that he raped her.

I find it interesting that even in the early 70s Trudeau had strips consisting of one drawing with no human figures in it. For some reason I thought Trudeau adopted that shortcut more recently.