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02-01-1995
Ding Darling (1876-1962): Drawing on a Love of Wildlife

When Jay Norwood Darling drew a cartoon of his college professors as a line of ballerinas, the professors were not amused. They kicked him out of school for a year. Darling did finish college eventually and began drawing cartoons for a newspaper in Sioux City, Iowa. Within 11 years his cartoons were appearing in newspapers around the United States.
Jay Darling, nicknamed Ding, drew political cartoons. Like most political cartoons, Darling's drawings poked fun at personalities in the government. Darling also drew cartoons about issues of the time--the Great Depression of the 1930s, for example, and the ...

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