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The Davidson Lectureship was establishedin 1966 by Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Davidson inhonor of their two daughters, Anne E.Davidson Kidder ’62 and Jane S. Davidson ’64.Each year, the lectureship invites adistinguished guest to CA to speak to thecampus community.A Price-lessSense of HumorPhotos by Tim Morse/cartoons courtesy of Hilary Price ’87Above, Hilary Price ’87 speaking in the Performing Arts Center, with one of her cartoons projected behind herC O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 028It was like watching a stream of consciousness turntangible. As the audience filed into the PerformingArts Center, animals and caricaturish characters filleda screen, generated by the nonstop ideas and fluid penof cartoonist Hilary Price ’87.CA’s 2010 Davidson Lecturer turned out drawingafter drawing, demonstrating the blessedly prolific mindand the stamina that helps Price supply seven strips ofRhymes with Orange to 150 newspapers around the worldeach week.Rhymes with Orange appeals to anyone who hasever felt anxious, which pretty much includes all but thepharmaceutically assisted and a few yogis. “The best complimentI can get,” Price said, “is, ‘Oh my god—that’s sotrue.’” As she projected Rhymes with Orange strips in theP.A.C., many were thinking just that.
Anxiety, Price explained, tinges much ofher work, providing the color and meaningthat resonates. Teenaged angst, in particular,figures prominently. Price blames (er, credits)“CA and the very experience of high school”for many of her insights. She finds humor ineven the most painful events — at least inretrospect. Case in point: when she accidentallytripped the fire alarm on her very firstday at CA. She was leaning on a wall whenher hand slid down; alarm blaring, thanks toher, the whole school filed outside for animpromptu fire drill. An auspicious start at anew school. She can laugh about it now.Price called high school “a fetid breedingground for anxiety” and said “anxiety is justbehind hormones as the Gross National Productof high school students.” But she creditsCA not just for fetidly feeding her inspiration,but also for valuing differences among studentsand for providing her with excellent Englishteachers. “They prized clear writing overbig words,” she said. “Thanks to them, I soundabout 30 percent less pretentious.” Price considersherself a writer who draws, not an artistwho writes, an important distinction for a formerEnglish lit major at Stanford.Though Price claims no one consideredher funny in high school, during the assemblyshe offered the sharp commentary of astandup comic. As she described the not-sofunnythemes that make her cartoons so funny,she displayed examples of her work. “TheReckoning,” for instance, shows a psychiatristreassuring his monkey patient that many strugglewith passing birthdays. “Yeah, but do theylive in a zoo? Do they look like a monkey? Dothey smell like one too?” the monkey asks. InRhymes with Orange, animals often personifyhuman traits and embody familiar concerns. Insome cartoons, Price pays homage to formerCA math teacher and advisor Ted Sherman.“Any time I do a math cartoon—any time—Ialways use him,” she said.Price gets ideas everywhere: from herdogs, her cats, newspapers and books, holidays,other comics, and a game in which shelines up people, jobs, and animals on one sideof a page and situations and topics on theother, then matches them to see what ideasemerge. She also gets ideas from her fans andfriends, one of whom inspired “The BelovedPet,” whose punchline muses that a pet whopassed away will forever be remembered . . .as a password. Price draws plenty of relationshipcartoons too, but acknowledged the challengeof drawing them “as a feminist and as a29C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y. O R G S P R I N G 2 0 1 0
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