I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.
I regularly give out my contact info to soldiers, but I only occasionally get updates from soldiers after they leave WRAMC, understandably.
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.
It was at a time when U.S. troops were taking heavy casualties, and I wanted the strip to reflect the sacrifices that our countrymen were making.
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
The characters are no longer the archetypes they were when I was first starting out and needed them as tent poles.
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
He is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.
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