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What Not to Wear. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on October 25, 2007. Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual Halloween party made headlines in 2006 after she posed with a student dressed as a suicide bomber… People were upset at what they perceived as her endorsement of the costume. For the record, she said his costume didn’t register and she thought he was dressed as Rambo. The damage was done, though. A year later, I suspected that admission to th

Holland Homage. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on October 18, 2007. Fashion designer Henry Holland rose to fame with his 80-style graphic tees and campaigns featuring his muse, Agyness Deyn (the “It” model at the time). The t-shirts featured celebrity names and rhyming taglines (e.g., “Do me in the park, Marc [Jacobs]” or “I’ll tell you who’s boss, Kate Moss”) and quickly spawned several copycats. Some of these “tributes” to Holland were featured

Evolution. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian graduation issue (May 2007). When the DP editors asked me to draw a cartoon for their one-shot graduation issue that spring, inspiration came from one of my brother’s SFU college shirts. The shirt showed an engineering major from UBC, their rival school, morphing into an SFU engineer (homo erectus). Darwinian theory is also an inside joke in our family, as my dad tells anyone who points out the absolute l

Crime Fighting, Penn-Style. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on February 22, 2007. The crime rate at Penn served as fodder for a lot of my cartoons. OK, compared to the rest of West Philadelphia’s, it was pretty low — kudos to the administration’s efforts to beef up security. Still, relative to other campuses across the nation, well… to put it in the words of a friend: “We’re number one! We’re number one!” In addition to coverage of cases such as t