Orticulation is a pamphlet collecting the single-panel cartoons

Comic strip

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 by Win Jones

Win Jones

Win Jones is a watercolor painter based in St. Augustine, Florida, and Washington Island, Wisconsin. Several galleries in the Midwest and Florida show his work...

 from The Lawrentian

The Lawrentian

The Lawrentian is the campus newspaper of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The paper, first published in 1884, comes out once per week while school is in session...

, the student newspaper

Student newspaper

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 of Lawrence University

Lawrence University

Lawrence University is a selective, private liberal arts college with a nationally recognized conservatory of music, in Appleton, Wisconsin. Lawrence University is known for its rigorous academic environment. Founded in 1847, the first classes were held on November 12, 1849...

. Orticulation features cartoons from 1950 through 1954. Most of the cartoons cover college life in the United States

United States

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 during the 1950s, though a couple feature young soldier

Soldier

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s in the army

United States Army

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. The humor draws on sight gags and exaggerations of typical college scenes.

The newspaper and Mortar Board published Orticulation in 1954 and sold it for 75¢ in time for Lawrence's graduation

Graduation

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 weekend

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 that year. Today it is difficult to find and rarely comes up for sale. Copies exist at Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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's Cartoon Research Library and the Smithsonian

Smithsonian Institution

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