Back when I started cartooning in the fall of 1999, I was totally new to the Daily Nebraskan. It wasn’t long until I saw how much fun the illustrators were having, and Melanie Falk let me join her staff in the spring of 2000. I was still cartooning 5 days a week, so I only illustrated for one. For the most part, I illustrated opinion columns, but I occasionally illustrated a few arts columns and stories too.
It was during that stint that I really started learning how to do ink washes (Melanie and Delan Lonowski were very patient teachers) and that was also when I first got my hands on those neat Prismacolor gray markers.
