The State of Editorial Cartooning

The original article by Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.

When someone asks me about the state of editorial cartooning for staff newspaper artists, I usually unfurl a long and winding answer about losses and gains and more losses, about diversifying and digital skills, about the rise of apps and animation. Yet today, I now have a pithy, one-word reply about the state of staff editorial cartooning. And that state is:

“Colorado.”

I wish I'd drawn...(15)

...this cartoon by Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Reprint on the iPolitics website (4)

The following cartoon was reprinted on the iPolitics website.

Le Droit, November 26, 2011   

Mike Keefe takes a buyout from the Denver Post

Here's an edited version from the Cagle article:

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From "The Comics Journal".

To say that Art Spiegelman’s Maus changed everything might seem like excessive hyperbole, but it did exactly that. The publication of the first volume twenty-five years ago (has it really been that long?), was like a warning shot that took everyone by surprise – and not just the comics-reading public, but mainstream America as well. 

“Attention everybody! Here’s what the medium is actually capable of.”

I wish I'd drawn...(14)

...this cartoon by Dave Brown of The Independent.