Olivia Walch Wins WaPo Contest

Michael Cavna at the Comic Riffs blog has announced that the winner of the newspaper's "Next Great Cartoonist" contest is 20-year-old William and Mary student Olivia Walch. She'll have a month's worth of strips published in the paper's Style section this fall, receive a $1000 prize and garner a mountain's worth of publicity and attention. Although I'm a little dubious as to the title of the contest and the ability of anyone to match its inherent expectations, I thought Walch was the best of the finalist batch in that she had a unique voice, displayed the ability to mix up her visuals, and had a baseline style that's both familiar yet would distinguish her work on the page. The Sunday gag up top in the page linked through her name frankly kills. Plus, her youth suggests significant potential yet to be tapped.
 
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