Academia Nuts is a daily comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 by Huw Williams that was published in the Purdue Exponent

Purdue Exponent

The Purdue Exponent is one of a handful of daily independent student newspapers, with most other college newspapers being owned by the university or operated by the journalism school. The college newspaper serves Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana...

. Set at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, the strip centers around graduate students Ed and Kathy, and pokes fun at Purdue institutions and college life generally. Academia Nuts won second place nationally in the 1997 College Cartooning Competition.

The strip's characters reappear in a subsequent, Web-published strip, Life of Riley http://www.huwtopia.com/riley/.