Another cartoonist loses his job. This does not bode well for the future of newspaper cartooning.

Washington Post ^ | Jan 25 2019 | Michael Cavna

[marktwain]

Benson is an extreme far-left jerk.

After 40 years, he likely has a pension.

Can't be sure with these far left partisans. Some of them cannot do math.

I shed no tears over his departure.

With a little luck, it will reduce his capacity to damage the nation.

[thoughtomator]

While he's at it, maybe he can learn to draw, too. Taking a look at samples of his work... it's an embarrassment to the industry that this guy was able to find work for 40 years with such rudimentary illustration skills.

[upchuck]

For FReepers who don’t want to follow the google link and all that implies, here’s a straight link to the article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/01/25/another-cartoonist-loses-his-job-this-does-not-bode-well-future-newspaper-cartooning/

[upchuck]

Try deleting all your Washington Post cookies. That works for me.

[upchuck]

Where did you get the google link that forces FReepers to go through google to get to the Amazon Post?

[rlmorel]

They had a cartoonist some years back named Toles, who thought it would be great to make a cartoon about a soldier who had lost both legs and arms as a way to poke at the administration.

I was so appalled by that, I had to write a letter to the paper and emailed the cartoonist who was a total prick, but he did answer. Man, that made me hot. And no outcry about that scumbag.

[originalbuckeye]

Absurd that he drew Sinema in red, white and blue. She should have been in a red dress with a hammer and sickle on it. Not too many years ago, she would have happily told anyone that she is a Communist. I wanted to puke when, last April, she started running political ads with the tagline ‘Independent.....just like Arizona’. And just note that McSally showed up for the MLK Parade on Monday, but Sinema couldn’t be bothered. I guess she has her cushy job for 6 years now. She MAY have to start showing up along about 2023, I guess.

[DuncanWaring]

I moved to Arizona in the mid-80’s, lived there for 20 years.

Don’t recall Benson ever being conservative.

With a little luck, they’ll get rid of EJ Montini next.

[nevadapatriot]

Somebody should draw a cartoon of him getting a boot out the door

[Anti-Bubba182]

Considering how left wing and nasty most cartoons are it is good they are going.

[Navy Patriot]

Another cartoonist loses his job. This does not bode well for the future of newspaper cartooning.

Good! and Good!

Steve Benson is a a waste of skin, and it's great that Charlie Daniel went with him.

[bIlluminati]

The Rat papers don’t need editorial cartoonists when the editorials themselves are cartoons.

[aimhigh]

Our local Gannett paper just held an LGBT conference. They need to close down.