To the Editor in Chief:

For your consideration, I am interested in submitting a comic strip for publication in the Campus Times.

I write and draw Haiku Circus, which is based on the traditional from of Japanese poetry with each of the three panels adhering to the 5-7-5 syllabic rule.You may view samples of Haiku Circus at the following web address:

http://www.haikucircus.com

Haiku Circus is currently published in: – UNLV’s Rebel Yell – University of Scranton’s The Aquinas- University of South Carolina’s The Daily Gamecock- Slippery Rock University’s The Rocket- Centennial College’s The Courier- International University Bremen’s IUB Crossroads- Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s The Urban Wire- Muhlenberg College’s the Muhlenberg Advocate – American University’s The Eagle – The College of St. Scholastica’s The Cable- Arizona State University’s Web Devil- Pima Community College’s Aztec Press- Southern Illinois Unversity Carbondale’s Daily Egyptian- Florida Community College at Jacksonville’s The Campus Voice

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,Shawn Wickens



comic strip submission

For graduated senior Helen Jackson, who hadn’t been able to go home for breaks for the past two years, these last few months have been a much-needed break. “I’m moving halfway across the country in July for my PhD program, so I probably won’t be able to come home very often after this,” she said. Read More

comic strip submission

So, you have a degree in Biochemistry and English. You served in student government for four years, clustered in Astrophysics, and speak passable German. In other words, you’re unemployed.  Read More

comic strip submission

The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More