By Erin Berry
Staff Writer

Todd Luck, who is currently working on his B.S. in Journalism at UNCP, is the new winner of the College Division Editorial Cartoon Category of the North Carolina Center for Voter Education Go Vote! Contest.

Luck, who has been drawing ever since he could hold a crayon says, “I was telling stories using pictures before I could even write.”

Thus, Luck has been drawing ever since. Luck received his bachelor’s degree in Art Concentration Design in 2000 at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and came to UNCP last January.

Since Luck has been at UNCP he has “meshed” greatly with the journalism professors, Drs. Tony and Judy Curtis, and The Pine Needle staff.

“The Curtis’ wanted me to try my hand at the political cartoons for The Pine Needle and I’ve been doing the cartoons in every issue of The Pine Needle since January,” Luck said.

So far, Luck has done about a dozen cartoons and is the opinion editor for The Pine Needle.

The cartoon that won the contest is actually a slightly altered version of a cartoon that appeared in The Pine Needle last semester. But, Luck does not just put all of his focus into political cartoons. His past endeavors of selling his cartoons as comic books started out as a hobby. But this endeavor was short lived when Luck realized that he was not going to gain any money from it, so he decided to continue drawing cartoons as a hobby and get a “real job.”