In May, the Dish drew attention to Flannery O'Connor's early work as a cartoonist for her college newspaper. Barry Moser, who wrote the introduction for the soon-to-be-released edition of her cartoons, provides further reflections (along with some great samples of the cartoons):
Her rudimentary handling of the medium notwithstanding, O’Connor’s prints offer glimpses into the work of the writer she would become, especially, and naturally I suppose, in her captions. Consider these delicious little O’Connor petards aimed at the walls of pretentiousness, academics, fashion, student politics, and student committees:
"It breaks my heart to leave for a whole summer."
"Do you have any books the faculty doesn’t particularly recommend?"
"I don’t enjoy looking at these old pictures either, but it doesn’t hurt my reputation for people to think I’m a lover of fine arts."
More Dish appreciation of O'Connor here. Cartoon via Daniel Nichols.
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