Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Bryon Vaughns is an Emmy award winning cartoonist and former Pine Bluff resident who graduated with a B.A. from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Vaughns has worked for KATV Channel Seven in Little Rock as a news/weather graphic designer, the Arkansas Arts Council in the Artist-in-Residence program and the Arkansas Arts Center as an Animation Director. Vaughns has worked with such creative talents as Danny Glover, Wayne Brady, Wanda Sykes, Nick Cannon, D. L. Hughley, Persia White, Adam West and many others. He also was a comic book writer/artist for DC Comics. Bryon Vaughns has worked in animation for Warner Bros.TV Animation (where he won the Emmy Award), MGM Animation, Nickelodeon, Disney and many other studios. Vaughns has drawn sketches of Tiny Toon Adventures Character Buster Bunny, Alvin & the Chipmunks, The Smurfs, and the animated film characters in "The Adventures of Brer Rabbit." His drawings will be on display with showing of film. He will also draw cartoon characters while he is here. He will be at the Carver-McDonald Branch Library on Saturday, January 4 at 2pm.