Dan Youra

Dan Youra has been drawing editorial cartoons ever since submitting his first cartoons to college newspapers in the 1960s. His first political cartoon published in 1965 in The Dupage of Maryknoll College in Chicago. Youra has always loved drawing cartoons. He has a whole family and zoo full of his creations. His "U" family is made up of Ulysses, Ureka, Uclid and Urana. Youra's "U" cartoons are online on the web at ... He worked as an educational planner for the Washington State Council of...See more

Dan Youra has been drawing editorial cartoons ever since submitting his first cartoons to college newspapers in the 1960s. His first political cartoon published in 1965 in The Dupage of Maryknoll College in Chicago. Youra has always loved drawing cartoons. He has a whole family and zoo full of his creations. His "U" family is made up of Ulysses, Ureka, Uclid and Urana. Youra's "U" cartoons are online on the web at ... He worked as an educational planner for the Washington State Council of Higher Education and as a planner for the Washington State Library, where he designed the LIFE Project (Library Information Facility on the Environment) for EXPO 74 in Spokane. Youra was born in Wisconsin and received his high school diploma from St. Lawrence Seminary in Mt. Calvary. There he contributed artwork to the school yearbook. As a Fulbright scholar, Youra studied in Argentina for one year in 1968, before entering graduate school at Ohio State University. There he studied quantitative analysis and computer research at the Behavioral Sciences Laboratory for three years. He attended summer school in 1969 at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and he worked as managing editor of Current Thought on Peace and War, an international digest published at the United Nations in New York. See less