Irene Joslin is the editorial cartoonist for The Brown County Democrat in Nashville, IN. Irene has been creating the editorial cartoon for the Democrat since 1994 and is the only female editorial cartoonist in Indiana. "My first cartoon experience was in seventh grade," she recalled. "I always did caricatures in class just for fun. I was bored one day and the teacher was giving a homework assignment. I was drawing a caricature of her and I put in a little speach bubble and in the bubble I abbreviated the word `assignment,' using the first three letters in the word.Not thinking a thing about it—totally innocent. She caught the paper and got furious. She promptly sent me down to the principal's office. He was aghast and couldn't imagine why I would do such a thing. They would not listen to my explanations. That was the beginning of my career in cartooning. I thought, `Wow, these things really move people!" Irene's work can also be found on the web site, Art-Bio.com.