Journalist’s Trade

A cartoonist offers reasons why editorial page cartoons need to survive.

Editorial page editors and business decisions combine to weaken what is the strength of editorial cartoons.

Using a curriculum overseen by AAEC, teachers can give students “a clearer understanding of the enduring value of this daily newspaper art form.”Short of a diabolical plan to have members…

Our cartoonist called Florida the place where ‘America is working out its fate.’

‘Take a job under impossible conditions and you invariably get fired.’

Unexpected benefits are found by some publishers, while others don’t even bother to ask readers about the cartoon’s impact.

‘… editorial cartoon jobs are increasingly left unfilled or are eliminated entirely after a cartoonist leaves a paper.’

‘How did it happen that such a confrontational art form … could be allowed to fall into disregard, disuse and ultimate dismissal?’

What will newspapers do ‘when the last salaried cartoonist drops dead and suddenly there’s nothing to publish in that box on all these editorial pages’?

‘Cartoons are the acid test of the First Amendment.’