Cartoonist Clay Bennett Joins WPWG Editor & Publishercovers the meat-and-potatoes story of new Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett joining The Washington Post Writer's Group as the vehicle through which his work will be syndicated. Two aspects of this prove to be fairly compelling. The first is that Bennett is a big sign, particularly in a shrinking market that depends more and more on name brands -- moving to Chattanooga was kind of like a big-time baseball slugger being declared a free agent in the middle of a season. The second is that the potential for working with a new syndicate was likely a part of the attraction of Bennett's surprise move to Tennessee, and that the only reason this aspect of a cartoonist's work didn't make up a significant part of the initial coverage and analysis of Bennett's hire is because I am apparently quite dim.
