Cartoon by John Branch, The Daily Tar Heel, 1975
Student cartoons in UNC publications have entertained and informed
this campus community for over a hundred years. In the first half
of the twentieth century, artists lampooned fellow students in yearbooks
and drew cartoons for satirical magazines that amused and sometimes
enraged readers and scandalized the school. The Daily Tar Heel
did not begin including student-drawn cartoons on its editorial
page until the late 1950s. Since then these drawings have regularly
provided politically-charged, visual commentary on a wide range
of local, national, and foreign issues. Because they reflected personal
opinions, such drawings have often led to debate and on occasion
active protests. This exhibition can only feature a fraction of
the cartoons produced by UNC students from 1907 to 2006. Nevertheless,
the selected works intend to provide a glimpse into campus life
in past generations and impart some insight into matters that students
over the years have found amusing and worthy of complaint and ridicule.
The Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free.
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