Voluntary Gestures: A film about Jeff Koterba

This actually looks really interesting.

From the Omaha World-Herald:

The 25-minute film, which will have its premiere Thursday night at the Omaha Film Festival, is about the beauty in Tourette’s, rather than the dark side, Morel said.

Koterba embraced the title right away.

An accomplished guitarist and lead singer for the swing band Prairie Cats, as well as a full-time newspaper cartoonist and a published author, Koterba believes Tourette syndrome happens in people who are artistically and athletically inclined.

For sure he knows he wouldn’t be Jeff Koterba without it.

“I believe in this connection between Tourette’s and creativity, even though I don’t know it’s been scientifically proven,” he said.

For more on the Omaha Film Festival, visit omahafilmfestival.org.

Farewell to Burger King – May 1, 2008

from the Daily Nebraskan

The Burger King in the Nebraska Union was basically my office for three years, being upstairs from the Daily Nebraskan offices. It was where I developed the habit of needing fast food in order to come up with cartoon ideas. I have many fond memories of that place, having shared many wonderful meals with wonderful people.

I was there when BK distributed Backstreet Boys CDs in 1999. I ate there after aerobic swimming each morning in 1997. I saw the coming and going of the French Chicken Sandwich, one of the three International Chicken Sandwiches. I witnessed the arrival and departure of the Sourdough Bacon Cheeseburger from BKs of Lincoln. I was there when one of the north windows was broken, forcing the Union to replace all of them, as each window had a matching pattern painted on it.

The Daily Nebraskan ran this farewell cartoon today, and to properly honor the end of this era, I busted out the markers and did this cartoon old school DN style.

burger king crying eagle

Dick Cheney – June 21, 2004

from the Summer 2004 Daily Nebraskan.

Dick Cheney came to Lincoln, his childhood hometown, for a 1st Congressional District fundraiser. He spoke (as he still does) about the link between Iraq and 9/11. This was about a week after the 9/11 Commission revealed that they could find no link between Iraq and 9/11.