Avery Silfer, Graduating Cartoonist
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Avery Silfer has been a cartoonist and illustrator for the New Mexico Daily Lobo, the independent newspaper at the University of New Mexico, for a number of semesters. Now she is moving on as graduation nears. Leila Chapa and Paloma Chapa at The Daily Lobo say hail and farewell.
For the past year, Daily Lobo readers could always count on seeing a — very often cat-inspired — positive or thought-provoking comic strip on the last page of the weekly paper.
Daily Lobo Cartoonist Avery Silfer’s weekly comics have the ability to make readers smile and boost self-worth, or reflect on tragedy and political tension.
This semester, Silfer is graduating with her bachelor’s degree in art studio with a minor in journalism, after having produced over 100 illustrations for the paper.
“I was really grateful for the cartooning position and that it existed because it felt like I was melding art and journalism together,” Silfer said.
Silfer started as a Daily Lobo cartoonist in Fall 2024…
Silfer said after graduation, she wants to continue making weekly comics to post on social media and submit her work to other publications.
“I want to keep cartooning,” Silfer said. “I want to submit stuff to magazines and newspapers just to see, because I think it’s sort of a dying art.”
“One of the only things that makes me truly happy is to make art about things, so if I didn’t have that I don’t know what my life would be,” Silfer said. ”I have made a commitment to keep making art throughout my life, no matter what happens, whether I’m making money off of it or whether I’m not.”
The Daily Lobo has a small archive of Avery’s weekly cartoons.
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