Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern
The Dartmouth Jack O'Lantern (sometimes spelled 'Jack-O-Lantern') was founded at Dartmouth College in 1908. The magazine, which boasts that it is Dartmouth's "only intentional humor magazine," is based in Robinson Hall. Many celebrated writers, artists, comedians and politicians began their careers at the 'Jacko,' including: Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) (who began signing his work with his middle name so that he could continue to work on the Jack O’Lantern after he was banned from participating in college activities for violating Prohibition), Chris Miller (who based his short stories in National Lampoon on his undergraduate experiences at Dartmouth, and subsequently turned them into the movie Animal House), Norman MacLean, Buck Henry, and Robert Reich.
The magazine was referenced in the opening line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story The Lost Decade, which was first published in Esquire in 1939.
The Jacko has many traditions, such as performing campus pranks and publishing a yearly parody of the campus newspaper The Dartmouth in a style similar to that of The Onion. One of the oldest traditions is Stockman's Dogs. In the October 1934 issue, F.C. Stockman (class of 1935) drew a single panel cartoon of two dogs talking to each other. That same cartoon has appeared in virtually every issue published since then, always with a different caption.
Jacko writers Nic Duquette '04 and Chris Plehal '04 invented unofficial Dartmouth mascot Keggy the Keg in the fall of 2003.