Since 1999 Trudeau has also worked with Starbucks to offer a series of limited edition Doonesbury products that raise money for local literacy programs. Ben & Jerry's introduced "Doonesberry," a sorbet made with raspberries and blueberries, in 1996 in honor of the cartoon series. "Tanner '88" also earned an Emmy - as well as four ACE award nominations. and abroad, including the gold medal for Best Television Series at the Cannes Television Festival, and Best Imported Program from the British Broadcasting Press Guild.
In 1988, Trudeau wrote and co-produced, with director Robert Altman, HBO's critically acclaimed "Tanner '88", a satiric look at that year's presidential election campaign. A filmed version of Rap Master Ronnie, featuring Jim Morris, the Smothers Brothers, and Carol Kane was broadcast on Cinemax in 1988.
Over the next four years the show was continuously updated for numerous productions around the country. Trudeau collaborated again with Swados in 1984, on "Rap Master Ronnie", a satirical revue about the Reagan Administration. A cast album of the show, recorded for MCA, received a Grammy nomination. Collaborating with composer Elizabeth Swados in 1983, Trudeau wrote the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Doonesbury", for which he was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. The film was nominated for an Academy Award and received the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Trudeau went on tp write and co-direct the animated film, "A Doonesbury Special", for NBC in 1977. In 1989, he was a finalist for a second Pulitzer. In 1975, Trudeau became the first comic strip artist ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His work has been collected in nearly 60 books, which have sold over 7 million copies. Trudeau premiered Doonesbury in 1970, and it now appears in nearly 1400 daily and Sunday newspapers in the U.S. He is an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip. He attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor's of Arts and an M.F.A. Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau was born in New York City in 1948, and raised in Saranac Lake, New York.
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