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Just can't sit still:
SAMUEL B. WHITE
by Danielle East
even do the It was also there – through
lettering. circumstances, too long, involved,
Once I and uninteresting to tell here – that
could do my I got re-introduced to my old love
lettering, of cartooning.
my cartoon
really took I had grown up reading the
off — in the comics every day in the paper and
sense of a considered Peanuts and Pogo my
doomed favorites, but I would read any
airplane in a cartoon you put in front of me. As
1930s movie I started drawing again, mostly
that takes off just for campus publications, my
and is never artwork improved a little and my
heard from sense of humor a lot. I had always
again. had a sense of humor and was
I became a
I in Abilene, and people I went to
Christian
grew up in Abilene, Texas
(the buckle of the Bible belt)
school with always said I was
to a father who carried mail
during the week and preached on going to be a preacher. Looking
back, I’m not sure why. I don’t
the weekends and a homemaker remember specifically sharing my
mom who always taught Sunday faith with anyone, but I must have
School. I was not good at sitting been implying it on some level.
still, so my mother always made So, when I graduated high school,
sure there were plenty of crayons I went off to Dallas Christian
and pencils and (safety) scissors, College because I couldn’t think
as well as loads of construction of what else to do. There, I did
paper. I loved to create, so I come to enjoy preaching and
started drawing my own comic teaching (as giver and receiver).
strip, Funny Bunny, before I could
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