gary trudeau joins me now. welcome to you. >> thank you so much. >> brown: in the introduction, you write it is not about watergate, gas lines, reagan no, ma'am nicks, monica. all these things you've written about, in fact, over the years. reaganomics. what is it about and what now in retrospect is "doonesbury" about? >> i think what it began as, a kind of diary of my generation coming of age, became the main driving force behind it. it's just inherently fun watching a generation evolve, to see what it's meant to be. >> brown: that's what you've thought about it. i'm going to watch my generation evolve. >> i had a grandiose take on it, i was just trying to get through the day and create a series of jokes and meet a series of deadlines, but i think looking back on it that's pretty much what it became. it was certainly marketed that way, that when this trip was taken out to editors and it was a very old-fashioned business, it was all relationships, the salesmen would go to individual editors around the country an