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Cartoon: Fall together

By Eleanor Gentry, Cartoonist
October 12, 2023
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Eleanor Gentry
Leaves of various autumn colors hold hands. Fall is a beautiful season full of color and change. It’s important to embrace change and enjoy it with the ones you care about! (Eleanor Gentry | Northern Star)
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A spring chicken sports a backpack as it treks among pink flowers and fluttering butterflies. A baby chicken is ready for adventure as summer approaches. (Aidan Renteria | Northern Star)
Cartoon: Spring Chicken
Just Dandy: Quest Failed!
Four “Just Well & Dandy” panels depicts the preparations for the brothers newfound adventure. In this comic, Well reads aloud a letter explaining their uncle has fallen ill, and Dandy sets about to delivering a cure ASAP! (Christa Kim | Northern Star)
Just Well and Dandy: Quest Accepted!
A figure, Ambrosia, cradles the Earth in her hands, as she floats in a purple cosmos. Ambrosia is a character based off the first phone I owned. (Christa Kim | Northern Star)
Cartoon: Ambrosia
Four “Just Well & Dandy” panels follow up on Well’s story, “Just…Well?” In this comic, Dandy checks up on his brother and finds that a kind gesture can bring great comfort — and hugs. (Christa Kim | Northern Star)
Just Well and Dandy: Feline Fine
Various doodles fill a cartoonists notebook. Just messing and doodling around. Miss doing this all the time. Used too be my escape, Lebron James wrote in an Instagram story. (Gabriel Fiorini | Northern Star)
CARTOON: Sketchbook doodles
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Protesters march with Palestine flags during the first intifada in Dec. 1987 within the Gaza Strip. Hamas was formed as a Palestinian militant group in 1987 by Ahmed Yassin during the intifada, which was a Palestinian rebellion against Israeli occupation. (Efi Sharir / Dan Hadani collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)
Understand Hamas' origins before condemning Israel
An exam paper and six floating question marks rest under the word Look Both Ways and the topic of the week: standardized testing. Should standardized testing be eliminated or embraced? (Lucy Atkinson | Northern Star)
Look Both Ways: Standardized testing
The “no internet connection dinosaur” runs in his desert landscape alongside the “no internet connection” robot underneath a “no internet connection globe” sun. Internet is a necessity to everyday life in the modern world, and there must be federally-funded programs to support internet accessibility. (Gabriel Fiorini | Northern Star)
Editorial: Internet needs federal funding in modern world
Jatavion Young, a sophomore middle level teaching major, responds to a street interviews prompt. What’s your plan if a goose attacks? (Northern Star Graphic)
Street Interviews: Goose attack
A soldier stands facing a massive explosion. War has severe environmental consequences that must be considered by environmental activists. (Gabriel Fiorini | Northern Star)
Shift environmental focus to wars
A laptop open to a movie script rests on a table near a NIU Theatre Arts Bachelors Degree. NIU’s Fine Arts program should be expanded for the benefit of arts students. (Daniela Barajas | Northern Star)
Fine Arts program must be flexible
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The molted exoskeleton of a cicada nymph is left behind in the grass. The emergence of cicada broods offer us a unique opportunity to celebrate big change in our own lives. (Lucy Atkinson | Northern Star)
Embrace the cicada swarms
A squirrel and geese rest under the words Look Both Ways and the topic of the week: Wildlife campus takeover. If one of the two had to take over campus, what would you prefer: squirrels or geese? (Lucy Atkinson | Northern Star)
Look Both Ways: Campus takeover, squirrels vs. geese
A donkey and an elephant linked together by a yellow connection are snipped apart by a large pair of scissors. Given the meaningful values that are often linked to our political beliefs, it is OK to break ties with family and friends over politics. (Lucy Atkinson | Northern Star Graphic)
End ties over politics
Lilliana Campbell (left), a sophomore psychology major, and Adé Basurto, a junior communicative disorders major, respond to a street interviews prompt. What are your favorite food trucks? (Northern Star Graphic)
Street Interviews: Food Trucks
The University of Southern California lines up against the University of Louisville during the American football 2023 Holiday Bowl (left), and Atalanta soccer player Isak Hien charges for the ball alongside Verona player Federico Bonazzoli during the Italy Serie A soccer match on Monday. Which “football” deserves the title more: American football or soccer? (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Spada/LaPresse via AP)
Poll: Which 'football' deserves the title most?
Two American flags and music notes rest under the words Look Both Ways and the topic of the week: playing the national anthem at sports events. Is the national anthem overplayed at sports events? (Lucy Atkinson | Northern Star)
Look Both Ways: National anthem at sports events
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