I'd like to start by thanking D.D. Degg for linking to Saturday's post about editorial cartoon dingbats yesterday at the Daily Cartoonist.
As the cartoon at the end of my post indicates, mine wasn't a comprehensive round-up of every dingbat. It had escaped my notice, however, that the last dingbat was officially retired only very recently: David Fitzsimmon's quail flew off into the sunset at the end of December. I'm grateful to D.D. for furthering the research.
Speaking of dingbats, I've come across a few other cartoons among my juvenalia in which I added a dingbat. I was checking through the on-line archives of the student newspaper at my alma mater, St. Olaf's Manitou Messenger. There are some original drawings I never got back from the Messenger, and this is one of them.
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| in Manitou Messenger, April 20, 1978 |
It's about an on-campus party that was busted, resulting in punishments for several people who gave their actual names when caught. (Until senior year, most of my Messenger cartoons concerned campus issues.)
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I also ran across this front page story advertising an upcoming campus lecture by a "Kennedy-esque" Senator from Delaware:
I'm afraid I must have skipped Senator Biden's lecture, and since his visit to campus came after the last Messenger before Christmas break was published — the next issue wouldn't come out until February — I have no record of what he said.
C'mon, man. It was probably a lot of malarkey about trains. No joke.
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