By Editor, Daryl Cagle - Jul 07, 2019 08:18 pm
This post is by my buddy, Jeff Koterba –Daryl
By now, even many who don’t normally pay attention to inside-journalism stories, have taken notice of the recent decision by The New York Times to cut all editorial cartoons from their international edition. In recent weeks, friends and strangers have messaged, and have even stopped me at coffee shops in Omaha, the city where I draw cartoons for The Omaha World-Herald, to express their frustration at the news. The fact that readers, even in the Midwest, are vexed about what’s going into the pages of an international newspaper is somehow heartening. But angst, alone, won’t bring back cartoons to countless readers abroad. Not all that long before this latest unfortunate news, the U.S. edition of the Times would run a weekly roundup of editorial ... Finish reading in browser »
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