“Doesn’t Satire Have to Be Funny?”: Concluding Notes on Doonesbury in the Time of Monsters.

Welcome to the final instalment of my look into how Garry Trudeau has covered Donald Trump since first introducing him to Doonesbury in 1987. In this concluding post, I want to look at how Trump’s dominance of the political moment presents new challenges to satirists, and how those challenges have shaped Trudeau’s work in the … Continue reading “Doesn’t Satire Have to Be Funny?”: Concluding Notes on Doonesbury in the Time of Monsters.