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Alden Advertiser, Alden, NY Thursday, June 4, 2015 13
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By Kathryn Luppi Town of Alden native Ad-
am Zyglis, who has been the staff editorial cartoonist at the Buffalo News since 2004, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning at Columbia University on May 28. The Pulitzer Prizes, estab-lished by Columbia Universi-ty Graduate School of Journal-ism founder Joseph Pulitzer, are given annually for accom-plishment in American jour-nalism, literature and musical
Adam Zyglis, 2000 ACS Graduate, wins Editorial
Cartooning Pulitzercomposition.
Zyglis submitted to the Pu-litzer Prize Board a portfolio of twenty cartoons comment-ing on national news. Topics included Veteran Administra-tion hospitals, global warm-ing, domestic abuse in the NFL, federal data collection and the torture of military prisoners. He was cited by the board for using “strong images to con-nect with readers while con-veying layers of meaning in a few words.” Zyglis, whose work is internationally syndicated, covers local and state to na-tional and international news, as well as sports and entertain-ment. “I cover everything that is of interest to the readers, but I'm most passionate about human rights and social jus-tice,” he said.
Growing up in Alden with his father, Paul, a construc-tion contractor, his mother, Susan, a neonatal nurse, and brothers, Elliot and Aaron, Zy-glis said he always found time for drawing. His mother en-rolled him at age 11 in an art course at the State University of New York at Buffalo. When he was 15 he started working summers as a caricature art-ist at Darien Lake, eventually becoming the manager of the caricature stand. Artists would take five minutes to create a subject’s sketch. “On a busy day the line keeps coming and you keep cranking them out, said Zyglis, adding that “the more you draw, the better you get and that was something I learned early on.”
Zyglis graduated from Al-den High School in 2000. Dur-ing school he was active in sports and encouraged “to pursue everything from AP [Advanced Placement] com-puter math to musicals and fine art,” he said. As a stu-dent in the honors program at Canisius College, Zyglis un-dertook a major in comput-er science, a minor in math and a concentration in studio arts. He said that the Jesuit ap-proach to a liberal arts educa-tion at Canisius allowed him to continue the pursuit of multi-ple disciplines. He expressed gratitude for the mentoring he received on his career path in the honors program from Eng-lish professors, Tom Joyce and Mel Schroeder. Both teachers were faculty advisors for the student newspaper, The Grif-fin, and advisors for his col-lege thesis on the art of edito-rial cartooning.
Zyglis said his experi-ence on The Griffin newspa-per opened the door to jour-
nalism for him. He realized “how important it is to have a voice for good in our society and to speak truth to power.” He created a comic strip that he described as partly autobi-ographical featuring the char-acter, Zig, who “poked fun at real things around campus.” A topic of the comic strip was the school’s required stamp of ap-proval for postings on campus walls intended for the student body. “It was really obnoxious so I had this thing where there was a new art exhibit and ev-ery piece of art had a big stamp on it,” said Zyglis. Tar-gets of jest also included the college’s president, professors and construction projects. “I didn’t realize it, but I was mak-ing editorial cartoons in my comic strip on things going on around campus,” he said, add-ing that he received “a ton of feedback” and had an ongo-ing conversation with read-ers. Sept. 11 and the Iraq War sparked his passion for polit-ical cartoons, Zyglis said. His focus then changed from com-ic strips to political cartoons during his third and fourth years of college.
After a three-month illus-tration internship at the Buf-falo News, Zyglis was hired as the paper’s staff editorial car-toonist in 2004. From his per-spective, if a cartoonist com-menting on local news is from the area and understands its history, then the commen-tary has genuineness and the unique mindset of its read-ers is shared; advantages not brought by an outsider. Zyglis has the editorial freedom of an independent columnist at the News. Working as a cartoonist is “the perfect way to use both sides of my brain and have my voice heard,” he said.
Zyglis lives in the Parkside area of Buffalo with his wife, Jessica, and 1-year-old son Clyde. For more information about Adam Zyglis’ work visit http://www.adamzyglis.com/bio.html.
Annual Balloon Launch
Compassionate Friends is holding their annual balloon launch on June 16th at the Ki-wanis Park in Batavia (3808 West Main St., Batavia). The event starts at 6, bring a dish to pass and utensils. Launch to start at 7 pm. There will al-so be a basket raffle. Any ques-tions please call and RSVP to Pat Wheeler at 585-861-0525.
Iroquois Chiefs Hockey Club
Member of Niagara Fron-tier High School Club Hockey League
8th–12th Grade Only (as of this coming fall)
JV & Varsity Team Tryouts 2015- 2016 Season
Monday, June 8, 20158:00 – 9:30 pmHoliday Twin RinksTryout Fee: $10.00Player Fee: $895(based
on min. 34 players total)Varsity Coach: Dale Reinig JV Coach: James Banko*$295.00 due at signing on
June 8, 2015 along with signed Player/Parent Agreement
Fee Includes:League Fees, Coaches Sti-
pend, League Games, Tourna-ment, On Ice Practices, Game Socks as needed, Player Ban-quet Ticket
All players must be Iro-quois Central School District Students.
Players must bring the fol-lowing to tryouts:
Copy of Birth CertificateCopy of School ID$10 Tryout Fee$295 check payable to
“IROQUOIS CHIEFS HOCKEY CLUB” upon signing
Due in September 2015:Copy of AAU Registration
Card for Players ($14.00 cost to player)
Instructions will be provid-ed as available
Contact for questions: Chuck Giambra @ [email protected].
Players will not be allowed to play in any games unless they have paid in full and turned in all necessary paper-work.
Coker College Dean's List
Michael Orlowski, of Maril-la, has been named to the spring 2015 Dean's List at Cok-er College for earning a 3.75 or higher grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
President's List at Bob Jones University
Sarah Shiver, a Sophomore Nursing major of Lancaster, was among approximately 480 Bob Jones University students named to the Spring 2015 President's List. This Presi-dent's List recognizes students who earn a 3.75 or higher GPA.