"After 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was fired on Thursday.
I blame Donald Trump.
Well, sort of.
I
should’ve seen it coming. When I had lunch with my new boss a few
months ago, he informed me that the paper’s publisher believed that the
editorial cartoonist was akin to an editorial writer, and that his views
should reflect the philosophy of the newspaper.
That was a new one to me.
I was trained in a tradition in which editorial cartoonists are the live wires of a publication — as
one former colleague put it, the “constant irritant.” Our job is to
provoke readers in a way words alone can’t. Cartoonists are not
illustrators for a publisher’s politics...
The paper may have taken an eraser to my cartoons. But I plan to be at my drawing table every day of this presidency."
The paper may have taken an eraser to my cartoons. But I plan to be at my drawing table every day of this presidency."