Summer at Iowa State
Drawn and Quartered: Brian Duffy on the Art of Political Cartooning
Thursday, 30 May 2002 at 7:30 pm – Fisher Theater, ISU Center
Brian Duffy is the front-page editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register, and is one of the cartoonists whose work is featured in King Features Syndicate's popular "Best and Wittiest" package of topical cartoons distributed five times a week to such newspapers as the Washington Post, New York Times, Chicago Sun Times and more than 400 other newspapers and periodicals such as Newsweek. Duffy is an 8-time award winner for editorial cartooning in the Best of Gannett contest and was awarded first place in the World Hunger Media Award in 1985 and 1986. Two collections of his cartoons have been published, "A Decade of Duffy" (1993) and "More of Duffy"(1995).
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