October 20, 2007

For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 2, 2007

White River Junction, Vermont – Garry Trudeau, creator of the Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoon Doonesbury, is making a rare public appearance on behalf of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) in the historic White River Junction, Vermont. With the nation’s first primary only months away in CCS’s backyard, his appearance is timely, bringing focus to the powerful role cartoonists play in political discourse.

Mr. Trudeau’s October 22nd visit to CCS in White River Junction includes workshops with CCS students, a web-based auction of an original Doonesbury strip signed by Mr. Trudeau, and a public lecture:

Date: Monday, October 22, 8pm. Open seating. Doors open at 7:30pm. Space is limited.

Location: Northern Stage theater at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction

Tickets: $50, sold in advance at: Revolution in White River Junction, The Norwich Bookstore, Shiretown Books in Woodstock, AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, Helium in Hanover and online at www.cartoonstudies.org. The Norwich Bookstore will be selling copies of Mr. Trudeau’s most recent book, Doonesbury.Com’s the Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the event.

For more information, visit www.cartoonstudies.org

This event is sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation, Patrick E. Flanagan Real Estate, Harry Bliss, and the Couch Family Foundation.

The Center For Cartoon Studies (CCS) is America’s premiere cartooning school and studio, located in the historic village of White River Junction, Vermont. Faculty and visiting artists include many of today’s most celebrated cartoonists. CCS has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Farmer’s Almanac, LA Times, and on the front page of The Washington Post. CCS is a driving force behind the recent revitalization of White River Junction, bringing jobs, students and art to the village.

Garry Trudeau’s work has been collected in nearly 60 hardcover, trade paperback and mass-market editions, which have cumulatively sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. In 1975, Trudeau became the first comic strip artist ever to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Since then, he’s been a finalist three times, including this year for his strips concerning the war in Iraq. Doonesbury appears in nearly 1500 newspapers nationally.

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