Hi, it's David Corn here, Washington, DC bureau chief at Mother Jones.

While Jamila King and the crew out for a little summer break, I am grabbing the microphone.

To share with you a fascinating interview I did with one of the great cultural and literary

figures of the past 50 years.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Gary Trudeau.

For five decades, Gary Trudeau has been writing what is one of the most important and most

entertaining comic strips in American history, Dunesbury.

He started the strip in October 1970 as a student at Yale.

With a sharp wooded look at American politics and American life, it quickly became a phenomenon,

eventually appearing in over 1,000 newspapers.

He's lampooned every president of the last half century and has introduced scores of

original and engaging characters.

This includes a core group of college students and, eventually, their own kids.

Members of Congress, a Viet Cong fighter, an obnoxious TV reporter named Roland Headley,

a radical priest and exiled authoritarian leader who ends up working as a strategist for

Donald Trump, a VA counselor, a CIA operative named Havoc, Uncle Duke, that never say die

con man, and so many others.

Trudeau became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer and, as the strip continued,

he has worked on acclaimed television projects.

After the first Gulf War in 1991, he became an advocate for wounded vets.

In 2014, he ceased the daily strip, but his Sunday cartoons keep on coming.

With Dunesbury, Trudeau has been an American duster-esque, producing a never-ending novel

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