Political Cartoon-Palooza! One for Veterans Day...

This is a political cartoon I did for my college newspaper back in 2004 when the country was fighting in civil wars raging in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I think it's still relevant today...

 

Political Cartoon-Palooza! Cross the Road! (We Dare You!)

So for the final appearance of Stickboy in the UNCP student newspaper, The Pine Needle, here's a cartoon I did after I graduated for a special issue of the paper. I can't remember, maybe it was homecoming or something, but they contacted me and asked for one last cartoon so I obliged. This one is on a road between the college and a nearby McDonald's that had high number of accidents on it. They requested I make a Frogger-like game out of it and that was a lot of fun (even snuck the pizza delivery golf cart in there from the last cartoon).  And thus ends Stickboy's short but eventful career as political cartoon character...

 

Poltical Cartoon-Palooza! Pizza Delivery

So this is my final political cartoon I did as the official political cartoonist for UNCPembroke's student newspaper, The Pine Needle, in 2005. This was on the college finally getting pizza delivery from the campus food court. I always get a chuckle out of on-campus pizza delivery at any college since a lot of students live within a five to ten minute walking distance from the place doing the pizza.

This particular cartoon was about  delivery drivers using the little golf carts that all the staff used to zip around campus. It was getting crowded on the sidewalks with students and the carts competing for space. A lot of students felt they were having to look out or get run over by the carts as it was, and now we've got speedy pizza delivery man to dodge too...

Political Cartoon-Palooza! Ready for some UNCP Football?

So this political cartoon with Stickboy, done for UNCPembroke's student newspaper. is about the college finally getting a football team.  The college prided itself on its small class sizes and intimate learning environment. Its motto in its advertising was "Where learning gets personal." Getting a football program was supposed to spur growth and a massive influx of new students. Not sure how that worked out since I graduated before the team started, but this cartoon imagines how it would change their advertising at the very least if it did became a larger college.

Worth noting is that Bigirl is included in here.  The larger kid is my first attempt at one of "The Guys" who lives in Stickboy's dorm (who I haven't settled on a name for) though if he appears in the comic, he'll be much taller.

Political Cartoon-palooza! BYOP (Bring Your Own Paper)

Here's another cartoon with Stickboy in it, done for UNCP's student paper, The Pine Needle. This one is on a shift in policy that would've required students to bring their own paper to computer labs to print on. I don't recall if this was a proposed policy or one that was enacted, but it went over like a lead balloon with students who didn't like being nickled and dimed by a university they were paying thousands to.

Political Cartoon-palooza! Gray Mail

It's Kinkygirl in all her black and white glory! This political cartoon for the UNCP newspaper from about eight years ago marks the only printed appearance of Stickboy's girlfriend, Kinkygirl, who I already discussed in a post about  the College Follies Facebook page.

This one is about "gray mail." It's the email you get that's not unsolicited junk mail, but it still clogs your inbox with messages you don't want. In this case, it was the university flooding our inboxes with emails about campus events. The sender was labeled as Kay Oxendine, who was in the Office of Student Activities.

I love the expression on Stick's face. And how great it is to see a big, heavy, bulky computer? I bet you could throw your back out carrying that thing.

Political Cartoon-palooza! Book Buyback

Here's another political cartoon with Stickboy in it from my days as a cartoonist for the student newspaper at UNCP. If you've ever been to college I don't think any explanation is needed for this one...

Political Cartoon-palooza! Campus Parking

So in between pages, along with past comic art, I thought it might be nice to occasionally post a political cartoon I did back in 2004-2005 when I was the cartoonist for The Pine Needle, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

In these cartoons I'd use Stickboy anytime I needed to represent a typical college student, so he appeared in several of them. This first one is about flooding on campus. And, no, that is not an exaggeration, the water was really that high in the parking lots, heck sometimes higher, and students' cars did get flooded quite a bit. I saw on the news that when the flooding was really bad near the dorms, students would go outside and float around on their mattresses. Ah, the joy of higher education in a flood plain!