Trudeau, Garry B (1948- )

US cartoonist. While an undergraduate at Yale University, he created a comic strip, ‘Bull Tales’, which later became Doonesbury, a comic strip characterized by its wry humour and satirical presentation of contemporary events. The strip became nationally syndicated and in 1975 it won Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize. Doonesbury was occasionally so controversial that papers refused to run certain instalments. Trudeau took a ‘vacation’ (1982-84) and then returned to syndication in September 1984. Trudeau was born in New York City.