Memorial Service for Cartoonist
A public memorial service will be held Thursday in Valencia for Randy Wicks, prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Signal newspaper, organizers have announced.
Wicks, 41, began working at the paper in 1979 and became its cartoonist in 1980 after graduating from California Institute of the Arts. He died Saturday after suffering a heart attack.
The memorial will take place at 1 p.m. in CalArts’ Main Gallery with a reception to follow. CalArts is at 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia. For more information, call (818) 367-5507 or (805) 222-2787.
Memorial donations may me made in Wicks’ name to the Friends of the Libraries of the Santa Clarita Valley, 23743 Valencia Blvd., Valencia 91355, or to the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center, 30257 San Martinez Road, Val Verde 91384.
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