Editing Garry Trudeau (section)

== Private life and public appearances ==
Trudeau married [[Jane Pauley]] on June 14, 1980; they have three children.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Macon Telegraph | date=June 16, 1980 | page=6 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-macon-telegraph-pauleywedding/166240458/ | title=Trudeau, Jane Pauley Marry}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Jane Hall |title=Fighting Off a Few Guilty Tears, Jane Pauley Leaves Her Kids at Home and Heads Back to Work on Today |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=October 27, 1986 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20094866,00.html |access-date=May 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101035/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20094866,00.html | archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
He maintains a low personal profile. A rare early appearance on television was as a guest on ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' in 1971, where only one of the three panelists guessed his identity.<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Bates | first=Eric | title=The Rolling Stone Interview: Garry Trudeau | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=August 5, 2004 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-rolling-stone-interview-garry-trudeau-165538/ | access-date=February 20, 2025}}</ref> In 1990, Trudeau appeared on the cover of ''[[Newsweek]]'' for ''Inside Doonesbury's Brain'', a story written by [[Jonathan Alter]]. This was the first interview Trudeau had given in 17 years.<ref>{{cite news|last=Felsenthal|first=Carol|title=Jonathan Alter on the Making of Alpha House|url=http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2013/Chicagoan-Jonathan-Alter-Teams-with-Garry-Trudeau-to-Make-Alpha-House|work=Chicago Magazine|date=November 21, 2013|access-date=August 4, 2014}}</ref>

Trudeau cooperated extensively with ''Wired'' magazine for a 2000 profile, "The Revolution Will be Satirized". He later spoke with the writer of that article, Edward Cone, for a 2004 newspaper column in the [[Greensboro, North Carolina]], ''[[News & Record]]'', about the war wounds suffered by the Doonesbury character "B.D.", and in 2006 did a Q&A at Cone's personal blog about The Sandbox. Trudeau granted an interview to ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 2004 in which he discussed his time at Yale, which he entered two years after [[George W. Bush]]. He granted another ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' interview in 2010. In 2006, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' printed an extensive profile of Trudeau by writer [[Gene Weingarten]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102000446.html Doonesbury's War], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', October 22, 2006</ref> He appeared on the ''[[Charlie Rose (TV series)|Charlie Rose]]'' television program,<ref name=Rose /> and at signings for ''The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time'', his ''Doonesbury'' book about [[B. D. (Doonesbury)|B.D.]]'s struggle with injuries received during the [[Iraq War|second Gulf War]].<ref>{{YouTube|2QeBG5hTkUM|"Doonesbury" & Private Lupo}}, Pentagon Channel, uploaded September 27, 2006.</ref>

On August 1, 2016, Trudeau appeared on MSNBC on ''[[The Rachel Maddow Show]]''. He was brought on to discuss his prediction about [[Donald Trump]]'s plans to run for president almost three decades earlier. Maddow presented cartoon strips from as far back as 1987. Trudeau was on her show to promote his new book ''Yuge'', which covers 30 years of Trump appearing in ''Doonesbury''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/5/30_years_of_doonesbury_on_donald|title=30 Years of "Doonesbury" on Donald Trump: Cartoonist Garry Trudeau on the GOP's "Natural Born Toon"|website=[[Democracy Now!]] |date=August 5, 2016|access-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref> On November 7, 2016, Trudeau appeared on ''[[Fresh Air]]'' with [[Terry Gross]]<ref>{{cite web|author= Terry Gross|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air|title=Fresh Air-Author Interviews|website=Npr.org|access-date=November 14, 2016}}</ref> to discuss ''Yuge''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Terry Gross|title=Fresh Air Podcast - Author Interviews|url=https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444908/fresh-air|website=Npr.org|access-date=November 14, 2016}}</ref> On the ''[[CBS News Sunday Morning]]'' broadcast of December 2, 2018, he was featured and was interviewed by his wife, [[Jane Pauley]].