Beginning with a comic strip in the Williams Record/Advocate that chronicled the exploits of a student named Slack and his nemesis Professor Gutbuster, you have developed into one of America’s premier editorial cartoonists. After stints at the News-Star in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma City Times, you moved to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel where, as a member of the editorial board, you help shape the newspaper’s editorial policies on issues from local to international. Through syndication your work also appears regularly in Newsweek, Business Week and The New York Times. You illustrated the humor book Are You New-rotic? and have done illustrations for ABC’s 20/20 and NBC Reports. New York Times artist Al Hirschfeld has praised your “original, creative mind.” The historical context that you bring to your drawing was both recognized and enhanced by your being the only non-writer in 1992 awarded a year-long John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, you have won many awards including a first place in the prestigious Green Eye Shade competition. In nominating you for the Pulitzer your editor said, “Lowe combines the best virtues of a journalist, artist, and scholar in producing work that provides unique insights on the issues of the day.” “As importantly,” he went on, “his cartoons cause readers to laugh.” Why, one must expect that even Professor Gutbuster would be proud.