
The University of New Mexico
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Anicia Esposito 277-9752
Sept. 7, 2007
The UNM Bookstore hosts a book signing with John Trever, author of “Mañana Republic,” Saturday, Sept. 15th from noon – 2 p.m. at the UNM Bookstore.
Trever is celebrating 30 years as editorial cartoonist for the Albuquerque Journal. His cartoons are distributed to more than 375 newspapers by King Features Syndicate and have been reprinted in numerous magazines and books. In addition to the Albuquerque Journal’s website, his cartoons are on cagle.com, politicalcartoons.com and editorialcartoonists.com. His work has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Free Press Association, the Overseas Press Club, the New Mexico Legislature and the Albuquerque Arts Alliance.
Trever’s early interest in comic strips earned a first prize in a national comics contest at age 13 and a trip to New York to Meet “Pogo” creator Walt Kelly. He spent his college years at Syracuse University lampooning campus life for the Daily Orange, but found time to earn Phi Beta Kappa honors and a graduate fellowship to the University of Chicago in political science. The Air Force requested his services as a nuclear missile launch officer and he spent four years in Cheyenne – not launching any missiles. He then moved to Denver and found work as a staff artist and cartoonist with the Sentinel Newspaper chain before coming to the Journal.
In his spare time Trever enjoys toy train collecting, wine appreciation and foreign travel. He and his wife Karen, a retired Montessori teacher, have five children, four grandchildren, three cats and one very spoiled longhaired dachshund.
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