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In The Daily Iowan

Vote for Justice

Another cartoon based on a local story:

One of the measures on the Iowa City ballot this election is to vote yes or no for a new "justice center," which I think is basically a nicer-sounding name than "jail" or "prison." Voting yes would mean adding a few more jail cells to the ones already existing at the courthouse.

Here's what it would look like. The new justice center is the glass, rectangular addition to the courthouse.

Here are some articles on it, if you want to learn more:

A history of the proposed Johnson County justice center

Vote yes for Justice Center

Vote no for new jail in downtown Iowa City

Justice Center proposal needs three changes

Public Intoxication

Early Saturday morning, Iowa cornerback Micah Hyde was arrested for public intoxication. Instant cartoon!

It wasn't until this morning that I found out it was actually three players arrested over the weekend for alcohol-related incidents. I wish I had known, I would have drawn two more teammates/cellmates. But I think the cartoon still works, since the three arrests all happened separately and in different places, and Micah Hyde is one of the team captains.

Maybe this is bigger news to me than to the average Iowa student, since I'm from BYU where there hasn't been an athlete in trouble for drinking for at least eight years. But, it was something to do with Hawkeye football that happened during a bye week, so it worked for me.

Greek Tragedy

Another cartoon in The Daily Iowan, about a local story! Score!

On Monday night I happened to come across a story about Sigma Alpha Epsilon shutting down at Iowa because of hazing gone awry. I was happy to see an easy opportunity to draw a cartoon for a hyperlocal news story, because I don't know if it will always be that easy.

I originally thought of comparing Sigma Alpha Epsilon to the Greek economy being in shambles. Maybe not everyone who sees the cartoon will think of the economy in Greece, but I think the cartoon still works if someone just thinks of ancient Greek ruins. It might work even better.

Game? What game?

Another cartoon in The Daily Iowan!

For all the Hawkeye fans who agonized over Iowa's one-point loss in the final 45 seconds to Central Michigan...at least you got your drink on.

I actually had this idea for a cartoon a long time ago, but was waiting for an Iowa loss before I could use it. So in a way, I've been actually rooting for Iowa to lose so that I could draw this cartoon, haha. And, it seems like a Big 10 loss to a Mid-American school was a good opportunity for this.

Over the weekend I finished two other cartoons that should appear in the paper this week. So keep a lookout!