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Mississippi Stories: Paige Braddock
In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large (and cartoonist) Marshall Ramsey sits down with cartoonist Paige Braddock. Braddock tells how she decided at the age of 7 that she wanted to be a cartoonist.Â
After moving around the country and attending 17 schools (!), she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1985. Early in her career she worked as an illustrator for several newspapers, including The Orlando Sentinel, The Chicago Tribune, and The Atlanta Constitution. Braddock began crafting her long-standing comic, Jane's World, in 1991.
After a 20-year run, Braddock stepped away decided to end the strip. But her book Love Letters to Jane's World recently won her the Mississippi Library Association's Mississippi Writer's Fiction Award. Paige attended elementary school in Wiggins, Mississippi.
In 1999, Braddock assumed the position of Chief Creative Officer and in this role is charged with overseeing the visual and editorial direction for all Peanuts licensed products worldwide. The Schulz studio works in tandem with the licensing office in New York, Peanuts Worldwide. As a professional cartoonist, she has illustrated several Peanuts children's books. The Snoopy U.S. postage stamp issued in April 2001 was designed by Braddock.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Fatal crash in West Point takes the life of a Starkville man
SUMMARY: A fatal one-vehicle crash in West Point, Mississippi took the life of 20-year-old Cameron Blair on May 12 around 1:25 a.m. Blair was driving a 2023 Chevy Camaro with two other passengers when the car left the road and struck a culvert on Industrial Road. One passenger was flown to Tupelo in serious condition, while the other was taken to North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. The incident is currently under investigation by the West Point Police, with limited details available about the cause of the accident.
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