Gary Varvel Named To Indiana Journalism Hall Of Fame

There's nothing I dislike about this article on Indianapolis Star cartoonist Gary Varvel going into the Indiana Journalism Hall Of Fame. If nothing else, I like that there's an Indiana Journalism Hall Of Fame. Varvel's had an interesting career. He's a conservative cartoonist, which is a subsection of cartooning where your praise tends to come from the severity of your positions rather than your skill as a cartoonist. My memory is that he's really quick on breaking news stories, like if I look around for what editorial cartoonists are saying on an issue I almost always encounter a Varvel cartoon. He came up from a entire system of newspapers that's basically gone now. He's also done some long-form comics work for his paper on broad social concerns that I always thought could be a model for other papers putting their staff-position cartoonists to work.

Heck I'm even fascinated that the other two cartoonists in the Hall Of Fame are the great Kin Hubbard and Charles Werner, who was a baby when he won the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in '39 but worked in Indianapolis for like a hundred years.
 
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