The man behind the "Doonesbury," Trudeau is probably the most famous comic strip artist in America. He's also the husband of erstwhile NBC anchor Jane Pauley.

Born in New York, Trudeau went to Yale intending to be a theater major but was swayed by art design. He started drawing cartoons for the Yale Daily News, flexed his comedic chops as editor-in-chief of The Yale Record, and went on to earn his MFA in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. "Doonesbury" made its debut in 1970 and is syndicated in thousands of newspapers to this day (it's also available online with Slate and doonesbury.com). In 1975, Doonesbury became the first comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, an honor ordinarily reserved for editorial-page cartoonists, and he's also been nominated for an Oscar and won a Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his short film A Doonesbury Special. Although he's spent the bulk of his career with the Doonesbury gang, he's diversified with an HBO miniseries Tanner ‘88, which he created with Robert Altman, and its sequel Tanner on Tanner on the Sundance Channel in 2004 [Image via Getty, with Jane Pauley].