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The Battalion
Friday, February 22,195
Powell enjoys penning dp cartoon
By Chris Whitley
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Twice a week for 14 years, a car
toon character has appeared in the
sports pages of The Battalion.
His name is dp.
Actually, dp stands for the name
of his creator,
Donald Pow
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“I e nj o y
drawing
them,” Powell,
Class of ’56, said. “I’ve always been a
cartoonist. I’d like to draw cartoons
all day long, if I could.”
However, Powell usually has little
time for drawing. He spends most of
his time serving as Director of Busi
ness Services for the University.
The Department of Business
Services oversees all of the busi
nesses connected with Texas A&M,
including the bookstore, all of the
snack bars. University Center, the
Printing Center, and many others.
Even though Powell is a busy man,
he always has enough time for his
cartoon.
“I’ve never missed a deadline, ev
er,” Powell said. “I have to be clever
sometimes to be able to say that.
“I have been known to bring in a
character called Fred, who is the jan
itor in dp’s studio. Fred, occasion
ally, has to draw the cartoon.” Fred’s
drawings are
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dp has al
ways had a
positive tone
to it. Rarely
does it overcri
ticize the sta
tus of Aggie
sports. That
idea is one Powell takes to heart.
“When I went to school here^
that’s what we learned — that you
support your team, no matter what,”
Powell said.
“They (the team) always win.
They’re sometimes outscored, but
they always win, so dp always tries to
find some positive thing to say, re
gardless of what’s going on.”
Powell said that keeping positive
has been tough this winter as the
basketball team struggles through
the conference season.
In the strip, the Aggie basketball
player fell beneath the bottom line
of the cartoon during the team’s
winless streak.
Several characters lent a hand in
pulling the player back into sight.
They finally succeeded when the
Ags won their first conference game
against Texas Tech on February 6.
This is not the first time that dp
has portrayed bad times in Aggie-
land sports.
One year, when the football team
was in a similar predicament, the
border of the cartoon was drawn as a
zero. The characters had picks and
jackhammers to tear down the zero
which happened when A&M finally
won.
dp also has a serious side.
When A&M was under scrutiny
from the NCAA during the last
months of the Jackie Sherill regime,
Powell drew dp looking out the win
dow into the black night sky saying,
“Why does it hurt so much?”
Powell said he received many fa
vorable comments from that car-
Yet to Powell, dp is a labor of love.
When it started in 1977, it filled a
void that he had sinct he was a stu
dent.
“Jim Earle, who did ‘Cadet
Slouch’ in The Battalion for many
years, and I were both students at
the time,” Powell said.
“He got to be cartoonist for The
Battalion, and I didn’t. And so, all
those years I felt bad about not being
a cartoonist for The Battalion.”
tion. In a crowd of mostly younJ
long-haired spectators, there v
turned heads when a middlea;
man in a three piece suit walkedkf
But Powell doesn’t mind.
FREi
Powell got a second chance when
he finished graduate school and
took a position with the University.
“I had an idea for a sports car
toon,” said Powell. “And so, I went
to the editor of The Battalion and
said, ‘Here’s a couple of samples. I
can improve what you have.’ And he
thought I could, so in 1977, we
started the cartoon.”
“I’ve always been a
cartoonist. I’d like to
draw cartoons all day
long, if I could. I’ll
keep doing it as long
as the Batt wants it,
as long as people
enjoy it.”
— Donald Rowe
toon.
T hrough fourteen years, dp has
been a popular feature of the Battal
ion. Several years ago, dp was even
pictured on a T-shirt, with paint
brush in hand, drawing the A&M
Powell has had a fascination with
comic books and cartoons through
out his life. He collected them as a
child and said he only stopped buy
ing them recently.
He noted that it felt awkward for
him to attend a comic book conven-
“Sometimes I think I'm
world’s authority on comic book!
he said.
Powell plans to keep the dp trejj
tion alive as long as possible.
“It’s something 1 can contritei
back to the University,” Powellsij,
“ 1 ’ll keep doing' it as long as theB;l
wants it, as long as people enjoy it ;
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The Battalion
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During the 31-2
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Hickey set school re
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Going into this weekend’s series against No. 1-
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in every offensive category with a .472 batting av
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Hickey wasn’t shocked by his record-setting
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“I’m not surprised,” he said. “I was playing to
the best of my ability to help the team.”
The Hickey family should not be too surprised
either.
Hickey’s mother was a Korean Olympic bas
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he would play to start the season.
“The good start was kind of lucky,” Hickey
said. “But, I know that I’m going to have both
good and bad days.
“Games like that can really happen to anyone.”
The anyone almost wasn’t Hickey.
Hickey transferred to A&M after playing his
freshman year at the University of Oklahoma,
where he hit .312 with five homers.
The reason Hickey said he transferred was be
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