Brett Waldon’s farewell
Brett Waldon was my successor as the Daily Nebraskan cartoonist. He started off working a few days a week as I was winding down, and he took over full-time in the fall of 2003.
What was really amazing about Brett was that he had “it” right away – a well-defined style, a very well-defined sense of humor, and (what has always impressed me most about Brett’s cartoons, which might come from his theatre experience) an amazing sense of comedic timing. Brett is a master of manipulating pacing in a relatively small, two-dimensional shape. That is a skill that some people go a lifetime without figuring out, and he had it from the beginning and has only gotten better at it as time has gone on.
Well Brett’s two-and-a-half-year career as DN cartoonist is going to wrap up here in the next few days, and he’s using a technique I always wanted to try – using his editorial cartoons to tell a serial story.
Here are the first two episodes of what will be Brett’s four-part farewell series:
     