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that. I think a jail should be built outside of town.”
Currently he does cartoons for four weekly newspapers: the Rappahannock News, The Fauquier Democrat, the Madison Eagle, and the Greene County Record. The majority of the time, the editors give him an idea to work with. But left to his own devices, he can still find plenty of topics, as last week’s attention on the national illiteracy problem illustrates.
Kilhefner does his cartooning in the basement of his house at the crossroads of Rappahannock, Culpeper, and Fauquier counties. His only materials are a small desk, a sketch pad, and some pencils. “It’s usually a one-shot deal. I don’t make a rough draft. I just sit down with my pencil and sketch it out.”
He has been cartooning since he was 11. “There were four of us in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and we would get together at each other’s homes and do comic strips. Our favorite strips were Joe Palooka and Dick Tracy.”
As soon as he was old enough, Kilhefner joined the Navy. He served as a gunner on a merchant ship, and when World War II was over he went to school under the
See KILHEFNER, p. 12
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