William Hamilton, 1939-2016

I just read that a Phillips Academy alum, William Hamilton '58 passed away over the weekend.  He was a writer and illustrator who wrote cartoons for the New Yorker...surely one of the coolest jobs on the planet...for just over 50 years.

© Phillips Academy.

Cartoons are an underutilized educational resource.  I was thrilled to learn that Randall Munroe, creator of my favorite web comic, xkcd, has been participating in writing textbooks. 

Here's one of my all time favorite, if non-typical, of his strips.  It's a visualization of partisanship in the United State Congress since the founding of the country: 

https://xkcd.com/1127/

I'd love to get Mr. Munroe to come be a Tang Institute speaker.