Ben Sargent Left His Paper On Friday

The longtime Austin American-Statesman cartoonist exited the daily newspaper staff-position stage Friday surrounded by a number of laudatory pieces. There was this one at E&P, a seven-president and a more general walk through the years pair of slide shows at the newspaper and the expected laudatory article wishing him well. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Sargent had been at the newspaper since 1974. One of the reasons I've thought that the recent decline in staffed editorial cartoonist positions is more alarming than what might be ascribed to a series of poor strategic choices by the publications involved is that this year's departures seem to involve a high number of first-rate cartoonists that one suspects might not be making a change in their careers if things were going swimmingly.
 
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