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The Texas Travesty

Categories	Humor newspaper
Frequency	6x/year
Format	Newspaper
Founder	Kevin Butler and Brad Butler
First issue	1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Company	Texas Student Media
Based in	University of Texas Austin, Texas, U.S.
Language	English
Website	http://www.texastravesty.com

The Texas Travesty is a student-produced satirical newspaper created and produced at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Travesty began in 1997 as an independent, online-only publication by the Butler brothers: Kevin Butler (a former editorial columnist for The Daily Texan) and Brad Butler. Within a year, the publication successfully appealed for inclusion within Texas Student Media (TSM, officially named Texas Student Publications), an auxiliary enterprise of the university which publishes The Daily Texan and produces KVRX and TSTV.

The staff produces six issues each school year, three each long semester. According to the TSM itself, the Travesty currently has a print distribution of roughly 25,000 copies, in addition to thousands of online readers. The Travesty is supported by advertising revenue. As a publication within TSM, the paper shares some revenue and expenses with the general TSM organization. The editor-in-chief holds a non-voting position on the TSM board of directors.

Several of the Travesty's writers and editors went on to publish That Other Paper, a once-popular but now-defunct alternative weekly in Austin, Texas.

Awards

Austin Chronicle — Best of Austin

• 2014: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2010: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2009: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2006: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2005: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2004: Best Local Publication (Readers' Poll)
• 2003: Best Parody Newspaper (Critics' Choice)

See also

• The Texas Ranger

References

1. "About Us". Texas Travesty. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
2. Fox, M. Steven (February 1963). "Texas Ranger". ComixJoint. Texas Student Publications, Inc. Archived from the original on 2022-03-29.
3. ^ "We are Texas Student Media". Texas Student Media. The University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 2016-08-24.

External links

• Official website
• Texas Travesty Archives (pre-2006 content)

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• Satirical magazines published in the United States
• Student magazines published in the United States
• Texas Student Media